Teaching HEART Smart Cooking to Kids

The Center created a children’s cooking show, aired on a local cable station and available on video for classroom use, to provide children from a local elementary school the opportunity to actively participate in food preparation and learn first-hand about nutrition, while engaging a larger community audience. Evaluation of the audience reach, recognition of key messages, and audience satisfaction was conducted and used to inform modifications to the delivery of the program for extension into other communities serving large numbers of food stamp eligible families.