Healthy Cooking Practices

Our resources help Texans learn healthy recipes and incorporate more nutritious foods into their diets. Whether you are looking for healthy dinner ideas or looking to identify a healthier ingredient to substitute, we have a statewide team of professionals ready to help you and your family find realistic solutions.

Related Departments: Food Science & Technology, Nutrition

 

 

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Dinner Tonight

The Dinner Tonight program aims to provide healthy recipes for Texans and increase self-efficacy in meal planning, healthy cooking techniques, and food safety.

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Healthy Cooking Practices

Publications

Publication

Help prevent foodborne illness by making smart food-safety choices from market to table. Buy, store, prepare, and serve foods following these simple steps of safe food handling. (2 pages.)

Publication

Help prevent foodborne illness by making smart food-safety choices from market to table. Buy, store, prepare, and serve foods following these simple steps of safe food handling. (2 pages.)

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Programs

We offer numerous free and affordable programs on agriculture and natural resources, family and community health, economic health and youth development. We also offer many volunteer opportunities. Browse the list below.
Program

The Texas 4-H Family & Community Health Program provides a variety of resources and opportunities to learn about nutrition, interior design, consumer education and more.

Program

Balancing Food & Play (grades 3rd-5th) was developed to address children’s health issues by developing lifelong healthy behaviors through nutrition, physical activity, and family engagement.

Program

Health Talk Express looks to raise awareness about chronic disease reduction. These programs challenge the audience to practice a health-promoting behavior to lower disease risk.

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  • Publication

    Help prevent foodborne illness by making smart food-safety choices from market to table. Buy, store, prepare, and serve foods following these simple steps of safe food handling. (2 pages.)

  • Publication

    Help prevent foodborne illness by making smart food-safety choices from market to table. Buy, store, prepare, and serve foods following these simple steps of safe food handling. (2 pages.)

  • Master Wellness Volunteers receive 40 hours of training related to health, nutrition, food safety, and other topics and serve a 40-hour internship in their county.

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  • Program

    The Texas 4-H Family & Community Health Program provides a variety of resources and opportunities to learn about nutrition, interior design, consumer education and more.

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  • The Cooking Well Series is a suite of programs which includes various lessons of interactive classes with research-based information accompanied by a cooking component.
    Resources for this program are provided by county agents directly.

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