Cooking Together for Family Meals
Cooking Together for Family Meals (CTFM) program is a hands-on cooking program offered in six weekly classes. In the classes, middle-school aged children and their parents work together to prepare quick, healthy and low-cost vegetable-rich meals, and then enjoy eating them together. These hands-on classes focus on adding a variety of vegetables such as dark leafy greens, winter squashes, cruciferous vegetables and beans to family meals. The children develop cooking and food safety skills and parents gain confidence in their child's abilities to help with food preparation.
The project began in 2007 as a pilot of Cornell University's Department of Nutritional Sciences in Cayuga, Onondaga and Tompkins counties (NY). During its first three years, 98 families participated in the pilot program. The children who participated in CTFM gained skills that enabled them to take on new roles in family food decision-making and preparation, and developed a more positive child-parent relationship involving food related activities.
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