Participants also find out how to keep their food safe to eat. Nutrition Education Assistants meet with small groups, usually in a participant's home or agency, to conduct weekly sessions.
Groups usually choose to cover five or six of the eleven chapters.
Expectant moms use a different workbook to address their special needs and help them learn how to feed their baby during the first years. Snohomish County Older Adult Nutrition Education Series helps limited-income seniors budget their food dollars, offers nutrition and food safety information and provides recipes scaled down for one or two servings that are nutritious, easy and low cost. This program offers information in a fun Bingo game format with a different Bingo game for each topic. Groups of 5-10 older adults meet once a week for four sessions, culminating in a grocery store tour with transportation provided. Seniors enjoy sampling the foods provided in the sessions.