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This material was funded by USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in cooperation with the Maryland Department of Human Resources and the University of Maryland. The University of Maryland Extension will not discriminate against any person because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, political affiliation, and gender identity or expression. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program provides nutrition assistance to people with low income. It can help you buy nutritious foods for a better diet. To find out more, contact the Maryland Department of Human Resources at 1-800-332-6347 or apply online at www.marylandsail.org. Fruits & Veggies Fabulous Foods is an adult curriculum promoting MyPlate fruit and vegetable and physical activity messages. Nutrition messages in the six sequential lessons include: • Eat fruits and vegetables of different colors each day • Eat at least one kind of fruit and one kind of vegetable each day • Choose whole or cut-up fruit in place of fruit juice • Eat red, orange and dark green vegetables Interactive activities provide participants with opportunities to discuss ways they can eat a variety of different colored fruits and vegetables, add fruits and vegetables to meals and snacks and be physically active. Each lesson includes a food demonstration or fruit and vegetable tasting opportunity. Lessons are 60 minutes in length and incorporate opportunities for participants to set goals to increase their intake of fruits and vegetables and be more physically active. Each lesson includes: • teaching objectives • handouts and worksheets • food and equipment lists • key points to review • anchor, add, apply and away sections • additional teaching notes to assist in teaching the lesson Following FSNE nutrition education programs, 35% more adult participants report consuming fruits and vegetables every day for snacks. Adult participants in FSNE nutrition education classes increased their daily servings of fruits and vegetables by 23%, for a total of five servings consumed per day. Would you like to start using Fruits & Veggies: Fabulous Foods in your program? Fruits & Veggies: Fabulous Foods materials are available online at: https://extension.umd.edu/fsne/fsne-adult-programs/fruits-veggies-fabulous-foods Additional support for using this curricula may be available to sites serving low-income youth that develop formal collaborative agreements with Maryland Food Supplement Nutrition Education.
