Metro Parks’ food program teaches kids healthy habits

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — In an orderly style, children at the Kirkpatrick Neighborhood Middle are mastering the basics of meal prepping.

Classes protect almost everything from hygiene to safe knife handling procedures.

“We want to equip little ones with different variants of healthful veggies and fruits and that is what we want to introduce to this plan,” Tiffanie Fletcher, software coordinator for the center, claimed.

About 200 college students in beneath-served communities will be able to take pleasure in the cost-free lessons. Fletcher stated the funding will come from the federally sponsored Baby and Grownup Care Food stuff System.

“It is really a funded software and they reimburse us for all meals that we do for our kids, but one of the parts in the application approach is that we want to be instructing and aiding small children make individuals more healthy decisions,” she said.

For two yrs local community centers across the city have supplied free of charge meals to kids in right after-faculty plans. Now at 9 local community facilities, food prep lessons will be available far too.

“The lessons are about nutritious ingesting of study course and also enabling little ones tiny procedures matters that they can do at property, when their moms and dads are away, or if they are viewing young young children, or even if they have to meal prep,” Fletcher stated.

The focus of the classes is teaching little ones to put together uncomplicated nutritious foods.

“The children are excited when they appear in to be ready to interact and do recipes and to prepare dinner and then go residence and notify mothers and fathers what they figured out,” Fletcher mentioned.

Fletcher mentioned Metro Parks’ foods method has plans to expand and extend to additional local community facilities next yr.