Education Links
The following educational resources may be helpful to you. When you click on the links below, you will leave the Healthy Recipes web site.
Nutrition and Physical Activity
This web site offers resources to help you make better food choices and become more active: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/fcd/nutrition/
Food Safety and Preservation
This web page highlights ways to prepare, preserve (can, freeze, dry), and store food safely: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/fcd/foodsafety/
Learn About Hunger
The following web site defines hunger and food security, profiles the demographics of hungry Oregonians, and links to other resources on hunger, including sites that suggest strategies to help reduce the rate of hunger: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/fcd/hunger/
Online Learning Module
Eat Well for Less is a series of self-paced, web-based learning modules. The goal of this program is to share useful information about how to plan healthful meals, prepare tasty, low-cost foods that are quick and easy, and make food dollars last through the month: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/fcd/nutrition/ewfl/index.php
USDA Nutrition Education Materials
This web site will link you with USDA tools designed to help you make healthy food choices. You might recognize some of the tools: Food Guide Pyramid, Dietary Guidelines, and Healthy Eating Index. Visit this site often to see updates on how to improve your health and reduce risk for diet-related disease: http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/index.html
Other Resources on Fruits and Vegetables
The following web sites provide recipes, activities and other teaching tools for helping you get your fruits and veggies. Centers for Disease Control -- http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/
Produce for Better Health Foundation -- http://www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org/
Other Resources on Using Staples, Bulk Foods and Commodity Foods
The following web sites provide recipes and fact sheets for using food items commonly found in emergency food boxes and meal sites.
Commodity Fact Sheets with Recipes -- http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/programs/tefap/cfs_tefap.htm
Commodity Food Recipes -- http://nebraskanep.unl.edu/nep/pages/index.jsp?what=rootMenuD&rootMenuId...
Other Resources on Using Foods Grown in Oregon
The following web sites provide recipes and information on when and where Oregon commodities are available.
Oregon's Farmers Markets -- http://www.oregonfarmersmarkets.org/directory.html
Learn about Oregon Agriculture -- http://www.oregonfresh.net/education/ageducation.php
Recipes Using Oregon Products -- www.aglink.org/recipes/recipes.php
Other Resources for Spanish and Bilingual Educational Materials for Educators
The following web sites provide information and education materials for Spanish speakers and educators that work with Spanish speakers.
Spanish and Bilingual Educational Materials -- http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/
Extensión en Español -- http://extensionenespanol.net/publications.cfm
