Successful Meal Planning

April 14th, 2009

7:00PM

For April Enrichment we will be focusing on our Homemaking Skills by learning techniques to successful meal planning. By planning ahead we will be able to improve the nutritional quality of our diets and ensure that the best foods are being served to our families. Through meal planning we can establish a pattern of healthy food choices each week by providing a range of features to make planning healthy and doable meals easier, such as shopping lists and successful use, and rotation, of food storage.

We have a guest instructor, Denise, coming to teach us how to plan meals in advance and how to incorporate our food storage successfully. Denise Paikuli is the Early Childhood Specialist at Building Blocks Child Care Center. She oversees the kitchen at the center and is VERY knowledgeable about the USDA food program and incorporating healthy foods in meal planning. In her own life she is a mother of three and is very successful in incorporating this into her home.

Along with the meal planning "Chef" Ericka Young and a special contestant will present us with a "Food Show" by competing to show us how to incorporate our shopping lists into our planned meals of the week. This means that we get to sample their work!!!

We are excited to have Denise speak with us and participate in our own PU2 Food Show. Come and enjoy a fun evening and learn, or teach us what you know.