This nutrition education series offers the theme of “Choose MyPlate,” which provides tips for healthy eating as well as “Eating Better on a Budget,” which provides tips for stretching food dollars.
A series of interactive, fun, and engaging lessons, which focus on increasing the knowledge and skills for teens to make healthy choices.
A series of interactive cooking and nutrition education classes available for kids, teens, adults, or families. This program teaches strategies to shop for and cook healthy meals on a budget.
An interactive tour of the grocery store to teach the skills for buying healthy food on a budget. This can be done inside the grocery store or as a pop-up tour at a convenient location.
Learner-centered nutrition education and cooking curriculum for grades 2-8, which covers core topics including: eating a variety of foods, consuming water more often, and increasing physical activity.
A series of interactive lessons, which focus on improving nutrition and physical activity behaviors of preschool-age children and their parents or caregivers.
Series of monthly lessons, which focus on increasing fruit and vegetable consumption for grades K-3. Each lesson includes hands-on learning, a tasting of a fruit or vegetable, and physical activity.
Check out what other families have learned from taking classes
with the Maine SNAP-Ed program.
Meet Jamie — a mom of three kids who makes her home in Farmington. She is passionate about cooking healthy meals for her family. Jamie uses simple strategies to stretch her food budget including: meal planning, large batch cooking, freezing meals and creative end-of-the-week recipes that make the most of leftovers.
Meet Jamie – a mom of three kids who makes her home in Farmington. She is passionate about cooking healthy meals for her family. Jamie uses simple strategies to stretch her food budget including: meal planning, large batch cooking, freezing meals and creative end-of-the-week recipes that make the most of leftovers.
Meet Mayuma – She is a Lewiston mom of two young, active sons with hardy appetites. She uses some smart tips to feed her family a varied and healthy diet on a limited budget.
Meet Mayuma – She is a Lewiston mom of two young, active sons with hardy appetites. She uses some smart tips to feed her family a varied and healthy diet on a limited budget.