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Operation Frontline
The Food Shuttle’s newest initiative is focused on offering nutrition and cooking classes which emphasize making healthy, affordable meals. Our goal is to create a long-term solution to hunger by giving people the confidence and ability to be more self-sufficient, improve their eating habits and food budgeting skills. Operation Frontline, a partnership of the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and Share Our Strength (SOS), is a an exciting program that mobilizes local culinary and nutrition professionals to teach cooking and nutrition classes to low-income teens, children & adults.
Click here for pictures from our Operation Frontline Classes!
Ending hunger by teaching healthy eating.
- Operation Frontline Classes are held for 4-6 week sessions and are held at local agencies and community centers.
- The classes provide practical hands-on experience with food and nutrition--instructing participants how to form healthy eating habits, cooking skills and shopping on a budget.
- Each class focuses on a theme such as fruits & vegetables, cutting fat, or healthy snacking.
- Grocery bags with recipe ingredients are given to participants each week to enable them to make the recipes at home.
- Chefs add their own creative touches with low-cost, nutritious recipes they help participants to create in class.
- Participants learn how to grow food through container gardening techniques.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Nutrition educators
- Chefs
- Culinary instructors
- Class managers and assistants
- Fundraising and event planners
- Spanish translators
- Gardeners
Operation Frontline Classes
- Eating Right- teaches low-income adults with children about healthy meal preparation and grocery shopping on a limited budget.
- The Power of Eating Right- teaches teenagers how to make healthy food choices and fix healthy meals and snacks.
- Step Up to Eating Right- teaches teen parents how to make healthy food choices for themselves and their babies.
- Kids Up Front- teaches children aged 8-12 about nutrition and healthy snacking. Simple recipies are provided that children can prepare themselves.
- Side by Side- brings school aged children and their families together to learn about healthy eating and the importance of family meal time.
If your agency is interested in hosting a class, please contact Katherine Andrew at katherine@foodshuttle.org or 919-250-0043 ext 3911.
If you wish to donate items needed for this program, click here for our updated Wish List.
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