NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — In an orderly vogue, children on the Kirkpatrick Group Middle are studying the fundamentals of meal prepping.
Classes cowl all the pieces from hygiene to protected knife dealing with practices.
“We need to equip kids with completely different variations of wholesome greens and fruits and that is what we need to introduce to this program,” Tiffanie Fletcher, program coordinator for the middle, mentioned.
About 200 college students in under-served communities will have the ability to benefit from the free lessons. Fletcher mentioned the funding comes from the federally sponsored Little one and Grownup Care Meals Program.
“It is a funded program and so they reimburse us for all meals that we do for our kids, however one of many elements within the utility course of is that we must be educating and serving to kids make these more healthy decisions,” she mentioned.
For 2 years neighborhood facilities throughout town have provided free meals to children in after-school packages. Now at 9 neighborhood facilities, meal prep lessons will probably be provided too.
“The lessons are about wholesome consuming in fact and likewise permitting kids small strategies issues that they will do at house, when their dad and mom are away, or if they’re watching youthful kids, or even when they need to meal prep,” Fletcher mentioned.
The main focus of the lessons is educating children to organize straightforward nutritious meals.
“The youngsters are excited once they are available in to have the ability to work together and do recipes and to prepare dinner after which go house and inform dad and mom what they realized,” Fletcher mentioned.
Fletcher mentioned Metro Parks’ meals program has plans to develop and develop to extra neighborhood facilities subsequent yr.
