5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

This four-class series presents health-promoting dietary strategies that are budget-friendly and accessible. Nutrition education components will help you to connect diet and disease outcomes while learning about easy-to-prepare plant-based recipes. You will take away knowledge and strategies that will help you to realize savings in the short- and long-term, both in terms of dollars saved and enhanced quality of life. Each class will feature a cooking demonstration with samples of delicious and health-promoting dishes, along with handouts of easy and affordable recipes you can prepare at home.

Class 1: The Power of Your Plate
The first class in this series will focus on general concepts behind healthful eating habits by providing the knowledge and resources for trying out a new way of eating. The Power Plate is a diagram that illustrates the essential food groups: vegetables, grains, legumes, and fruits. From these groups, you will be able to think about different foods and meals you can eat to best promote your health and the health of your family.

Class 2: How Foods Fight Diabetes
The road to diabetes does not have to be a one-way street. There is reason for hope. People who eat plant-based meals are less likely to ever develop diabetes, and for those who have diabetes, plant-based meals can help to improve blood sugar levels and prevent complications.

Class 3: Foods for a Healthy Weight
Eating plant-based is not a “diet” that leads to feeling hungry or deprived. Believe it or not, when you change the quality of your diet, you don’t need to think about counting calories or measuring portions.The focus is on quality not quantity.

Class 4: How Foods Fight Heart Disease
Certain diet patterns seem to have a major effect in helping people avoid heart disease, or if they already have heart disease, in reversing it. It takes a powerful diet to actually remove the hard plaque forming in the arterial walls after years of eating high-fat diets. But research has shown it can be done. This class will show you how.