During March, Ricardo Kairios, FCHS Educator/Assistant Professor, collaborated with the Lawrence Township Senior Center to provide a Saving Money While Shopping and Healthy Eating series. Each lesson featured a recipe incorporating the five food groups from the USDA’s MyPlate and highlighted the various ways to include colorful fruits and vegetables in your meals and snacks. […]
In January, FCHS collaborated with Children’s Home Society of New Jersey to provide a Healthy Eating During Pregnancy lesson for individuals enrolled in their Head Start program. Maggie, a Nutritional Sciences undergraduate student from Rutgers University, offered this lesson in Spanish. Maggie volunteers with Ricardo Kairios, Mercer County FCHS Educator/Assistant Professor, to gain experience in nutrition […]
Last month FCHS Educator, Ricardo Kairios, provided a Healthy Eating Workshop to families enrolled in the Therapeutic Intervention Parenting Program at Millhill Child and Family Development Center in Trenton, NJ. During the event, Ricardo explained how to create healthy meals using the MyPlate (highlighting the health benefits of eating a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables […]
An FCHS educator taught a series of nutrition classes on opening day at the Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market. The sun was shining brightly, and the wafting smell of garlic drew the market shoppers to the FCHS tent, where the educator cooked a healthy, nutritious dish made from three varieties of Jersey Fresh summer squash purchased […]
