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2025 Adult Spring Class

Looking to learn new skills, improve your health, and connect with others? Our 2025 Adult Spring Classes, offered through the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), provide practical,…

Building My Body Program

Building My Body with Virginia Williamson 3rd Graders! Last week, and Thursday/Friday of this week, our 3rd graders were wrapping up Lesson 4 of the Building My Body 4-H EFNEP program!This week,…

Family toasting on Christmas dinner at home

Keep Your Healthy Routines During Holiday Travel

Keeping a healthy routine can be a challenge year-round, but it can be a bigger problem during the holiday season. It becomes even harder when you’re visiting family or they’re coming to stay with…

person stretching in a yoga form on a rock in front of the ocean.

Try to Be More Active Next Year

It’s that time of year where we all reassess our lives and vow to make changes to do better in the new year. I’m guessing many of us would like to be a little more physically active. I’m not talking…

Mindful Eating

The Holiday Challenge has started! The challenge is to maintain our weight during the holiday season. This is a seven-week virtual educational program that was developed by the Eat Smart, Move More,…

Bowl of kale salad with roasted squash, brown rice, dried cranberries, feta, and pumpkin seeds

Acorn Squash, Kale and Cranberry Salad

In last week’s column I offered some tips to make a homemade salad taste morelike a restaurant salad. One of the tips was to add different greens, fruits andvegetables to offer variety as well as…

bowls of separate salad toppings and lettuce

Make Homemade Salads as Good as Restaurants

In an effort to watch calories and eat more healthful, I try to make salads at home.Sometimes I have great ingredients and other times---not so good. I recently saw a post in the Eat Smart, Move…

Raw herb- and garlic-marinated whole chickens in a metal roasting pan

Marinating and Preparing Food Ahead of Time

A recent food safety question came to the office regarding prepping foods ahead of time for quick weeknight meals. The question was about combining these ingredients several days ahead of…

Woman in orange leggings doing abdominal crunches on a mat in a gym by a window

Change Your Exercise Routine

Bringing in a new year always is the time when people think about makingpositive changes to their lifestyle. Adding more movement or changing anexercise routine is often on people’s resolution…