Cooking with Kids BIG little Project

School-based cooking and tasting curriculum for grades K-5 with bilingual guides, recipes and videos, plus PSE supports like teaching kitchens and Farm to School.

Cooking with Kids BIG little Project is a school-based food nutrition education curriculum program designed to educate and empower children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods from diverse cultural traditions. The program uses three nutrition education and obesity prevention approaches: direct education, multi-level interventions at multiple complementary organizational and institutional levels, and community and public health approaches to improve nutrition. Cooking with Kids BIG little Project includes integrated curriculum guides (bilingual and grade-specific) with cooking and tasting lessons, how-to-videos, recipes, and other resources. Cooking with Kids, Inc. provides nutrition education in SNAP-Ed qualifying public schools and supports community and public health approaches, including the development of teaching kitchens in schools and the support of Farm to School and Child Nutrition Program staff training.

Evidence: Research-tested and practice-tested; multiple peer-reviewed studies show improved vegetable preferences and cooking self-efficacy.

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