Metro Parks’ food program teaches kids healthy habits

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — In an orderly manner, young ones at the Kirkpatrick Neighborhood Center are finding out the basic principles of meal prepping.

Classes deal with everything from cleanliness to secure knife handling procedures.

“We want to equip kids with different variants of nutritious veggies and fruits and that is what we want to introduce to this program,” Tiffanie Fletcher, system coordinator for the middle, reported.

About 200 learners in less than-served communities will be able to delight in the cost-free classes. Fletcher claimed the funding will come from the federally sponsored Little one and Adult Treatment Foodstuff Plan.

“It’s a funded plan and they reimburse us for all meals that we do for our little ones, but a person of the components in the application approach is that we need to be teaching and aiding youngsters make all those healthier options,” she explained.

For two decades community facilities throughout the metropolis have supplied free of charge foods to kids in soon after-university applications. Now at 9 group facilities, food prep courses will be provided much too.

“The lessons are about balanced feeding on of program and also making it possible for little ones modest tactics points that they can do at residence, when their mothers and fathers are away, or if they are seeing young small children, or even if they have to food prep,” Fletcher mentioned.

The emphasis of the classes is teaching youngsters to prepare simple healthy foods.

“The little ones are enthusiastic when they appear in to be equipped to interact and do recipes and to cook and then go dwelling and convey to mother and father what they figured out,” Fletcher explained.

Fletcher mentioned Metro Parks’ foods plan has ideas to mature and extend to far more group facilities next calendar year.