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1 in 3 American adults has prediabetes. Do you?

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Find healthy new dishes your family will love on our "Recipes" page.

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A small group nutrition class

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Children will often eat new foods that they help you to prepare!

Use your favorite seasonal fruits for Fresh Fruit with Warm Honey Yogurt Topping from Cooking Matters.

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"Fresh Fruit with Honey Yogurt Topping", from Cooking Matters.

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Learn about food container expiration dates on our Food Safety pages.

The Cargill Teaching Kitchen at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County (2012)

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Many nutrition classes are held in CCE-Tompkins' new teaching kitchen.

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Healthy and low-fat Baked Sweet Potato Fries, from our Recipes page!

Food

Welcome to our Food and Nutrition pages! Cornell Cooperative Extension offers free or low-cost educational workshops, applied research projects, and lots of useful information on food-related topics from food safety and nutrition to healthy eating on a limited budget. Explore our links, check out our upcoming events, then give us a call or visit our Education Center to learn more.

Food Resources

Find food pantries, community meals, and programs like ESNY, WIC and Free/Reduced School Meals that can help feed your family.

Temporary Emergency Resource for Links to Food Options

Food Options During COVID-19

Find links to advice on managing your kitchen along with local resources for obtaining delivery and food assistance at this time of social distance and great need.

Preserving Foods

Enjoy harvest fresh flavor and save money too, by safely canning, freezing and drying fresh foods. Find extension resources here on these topics.

Buy Local Foods within your reach, Find listings for 400 farms and local food producers in Tompkins, Tioga, Schuyler, Chemung and Cortland Counties online at: buylocalfoodny.org

Local Food Resources

Find links to a 5-county directory of local producers, livestock farmers in multiple counties, and a growing list of local farmstands and CSA farmers who deliver.

Kitchen garden in Gers, France with marigolds, tomatoes and trellises

Get Started Growing Veggies!

NOW OFFERED AS AN ONLINE ZOOM CLASS: Veggie Gardening 101 - We'll cover all you need to know to start your first garden this spring. 3/28.

Using EBT & Coupons

Did you know that Food Stamps can be used for payment at local farmers' markets? Learn more about using EBT and FMNP Coupons here.

Last updated March 23, 2020

Food

2020 Advisory Committee

Nutrition, Health & Safety Program Committee

Tisa Fontaine Hill
Beth Krause

Rethink Your Drink!

water animation gift for FLESNY Rethink Your Drink

Find tips, recipes and resources for fun, creative ways to rethink your drink on the FLESNY website!

Are you eligible for SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)? Find out if you can receive SNAP benefits and apply online at MyBenefits.NY.gov.

Cornell Cooperative Extension

Tompkins County

Cornell Cooperative Extension

Tompkins County

Food

Food Resources

Food Options During COVID-19

Preserving Foods

Local Food Resources

Get Started Growing Veggies!

Using EBT & Coupons

Food

2020 Advisory Committee

Rethink Your Drink!

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Community Partners

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