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Empowering families to access and prepare meals from food pantries Creation of a cookbook and resource list for the food insecure in North Central Florida Kaley Mialki, MS, RDN, LDN; Joseph Olivera, MS, RDN; Ellen K Bowser, MS, RDN, LDN, RN,

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Empowering families to access and prepare meals from food pantries

Creation of a cookbook and resource list for the food insecure in North Central Florida

Kaley Mialki, MS, RDN, LDN; Joseph Olivera, MS, RDN; Ellen K Bowser, MS, RDN, LDN, RN, FAND Pediatric Pulmonary Center at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

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Food Insecurity

  • Food insecurity: lack of consistent access to

enough food for an active, healthy life

  • 1 in 8 American households (15.8 million

households) were food insecure during some part of 2015

  • 7.8%
  • f US

households with children (3 million households) were food insecure at times during 2015

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Food Insecurity & Obesity

  • S
  • me research suggests a relationship between food

insecurity and obesity

  • Cycles of over- and undereating
  • Lack of access to healthy foods
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tress, anxiety, and depression

  • Less physical activity
  • Food marketing
  • Limited health care access
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Purpose

  • Create resources to help families in North

Central Florida gain access to food and empower families to cook this food in a nutritious way.

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Catholic Charities

  • National network of agencies who help the

homeless, hungry, sick, and vulnerable in communities, regardless of religious affiliation

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ervices: ▫ Provide disaster relief ▫ S

helter

▫ Provide education and training ▫ Build financial security ▫ Assist with adoption

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Catholic Charities Gainesville

  • Founded in 1975
  • Provides services for North Central Florida
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ervices:

▫ Emergency food assistance ▫ Weekend hunger backpacks ▫ Rural mobile food distribution ▫ Bridges to prosperity program ▫ Pregnancy counseling ▫ Adoption services ▫ Housing opportunities program

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S ample Foods for Families of 3-4 People

  • 2 lbs pasta
  • 1 j ar spaghetti sauce
  • 3 cans vegetables
  • 1 j ar peanut butter
  • 1 carton milk
  • 1 box cereal or oatmeal
  • 1 cake/ cookie/ pancake/ muffin/ j ello mix
  • 2 bread
  • 1 sweet
  • 1 large frozen meat
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Resource List

  • Comprehensive list of food assistance programs

that includes:

▫ Food Pantries ▫ Food Banks ▫ Free Congregate Meals ▫ Meal Delivery S

ervices

  • Provides:

▫ Contact Information ▫ Hours of Operation ▫ Requirements for Participation ▫ S

ervices

  • Multiple outlets for use
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Balanced Budget Cookbook

  • Collection of kid-friendly breakfast, snack,

main course and dessert recipes

  • Highlights foods given by food pantry and WIC-

approved foods

  • Budget saving and nutrition tips included

throughout cookbook

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Balanced Budget Cookbook Survey

  • 1. What is one recipe that you prepared from this cookbook?
  • 2. How could this recipe be improved?
  • 3. Did you find the budget tips throughout the cookbook helpful?

YES NO

  • 4. Did you find the nutrition tips throughout the cookbook helpful?

YES NO

  • 5. What can be done to improve this cookbook for you?

Thank you for your feedback. Please place your completed survey in a post

  • ffice box.
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Thank you!

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References

  • Understanding the connections: food insecurity and obesity. Food Research &

Action Center website. http://frac.org/pdf/frac_brief_understanding_the_connections.pdf. Accessed March 28, 2017.

  • Our Programs. Catholic Charities website.

http://catholiccharitiesgainesville.org/?page_id=6. Accessed March 28, 2017.

  • What we do. Catholic Charities USA website.

https://catholiccharitiesusa.org/what-we-do. Accessed March 28, 2017.

  • Coleman-Jensen A, Rabbitt MP, Gregory CA, Singh A. Household food security in

the United States in 2015. United States Department of Agriculture website. https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/err215/err-215.pdf?v=42636. Published September 2016. Accessed March 28, 2017.

  • Understand food insecurity. Feeding America website.

https:/ / hungerandhealth.feedingamerica.org/ understand-food- insecurity/ hunger-health-101/ . Accessed March 28, 2017.