On a rainy spring day, patrons of the Warwick Public Library braved the weather to attend a Healthy Habits workshop with community nutrition coordinators Theresa Beeley and Layleen Suero.
Healthy Habits, the Food Bank’s community nutrition education program, provides educational content that empowers people to eat well on a budget. This workshop, one of many provided at the Warwick Library, focused on meal prep.
“All of the meals we’re demonstrating today are under $2 per serving,” Theresa shares. “But they also need to be healthy and taste good while being budget friendly. “
Theresa and Layleen show their audience how meal prep can stretch a food budget further. They discuss how to shop and prep full meals for the week, how to prepare and store fresh ingredients for easy use, and how to create healthy freezer meals to pull out in a pinch.
“I wanted to learn how to be more cost efficient when I make meals,” one library patron shares. “These days food is so costly, and I really need to stretch my budget.”
Another attendee shares that she has recently been diagnosed with diabetes and wants to learn how to better manage her condition with nutrition. The Healthy Habits team gave workshop attendees a grocery list for the meals they have demonstrated and explained how to “shop at home” first to avoid overspending.
Learn more about Healthy Habits in this video. https://youtu.be/kHtW5tvHfeg?feature=shared
IMPACT: The Healthy Habits team conducts over 100 classes, workshops and demonstrations a year that help our neighbors understand how to eat better on a limited budget.
