{"id":14178,"date":"2015-05-06T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=14178"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:58:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T21:58:18","slug":"video-kids-and-volunteers-get-veggie-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/video-kids-and-volunteers-get-veggie-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Kids and volunteers get veggie smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sara Shouhayib<\/p>\n<p><em>Food banks are taking creative approaches to feeding their hungry neighbors in Northern Illinois, teaching nutrition in cooking classes for volunteers and kids at school.<\/em> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Kids and volunteers get veggie smart\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/127075742?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"featurecaption\"> Professional chef Jennifer Lamplough holds monthly food demonstrations at the Northern Illinois Food Bank facility in Geneva for staff and volunteers. (Sara Shouhayib\/Medill) <\/div>\n<p>Kids turn into chefs at their own schools when Northern Illinois Food Bank volunteers come to teach them to cook tuna salad, hummus and dishes with lots of veggies.<\/p>\n<p>The kid\u2019s nutrition education after school program extends across the food bank service area that covers 13 counties in Northern Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The training is part of an after-school meal program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a snack or a boxed cold supper in their after-school program and word was coming back that the kids weren\u2019t eating some of the healthier items \u2013 cut veggies, tuna salad, hummus, egg salad \u2013 things that they didn\u2019t really know about.\u00a0 So they weren\u2019t even trying it because they didn\u2019t know what it was,\u201d said Jennifer Lamplough,\u00a0 director of nutrition programs and the executive chef at the Northern Illinois Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Lamblough created the after-school program, funded by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, with the help of graduate assistants in the dietetics program at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.\u00a0 The\u00a0 program is available at schools that serve 50 percent or more of their students free or reduced price lunches and also offer an after-school enrichment activity.<\/p>\n<p>The four-week curriculum for the nutrition program concentrates on a \u201cstar veggie\u201d for each week. Kids learn how to use it to make their own snacks. They have taught them how to make veggie cups and dip, salads, veggie boats, and veggie wraps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch has shown that kids are 100 percent more likely to try a new food if they make it themselves. So that\u2019s what we really sought to do by having them work in groups, make their own healthy snack. It\u2019s been very popular, the kids are coming up for seconds and thirds for veggies, \u201c Lamplough said.<\/p>\n<p>Although the program is helping change the eating habits of kids they are still faced with challenges, said Elizabeth Koselka, child nutrition programs specialist at the food bank, .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a pretty small staff with a large area to serve, and sometimes we aren\u2019t able to get nutrition education lessons out to an interested partner site just because we can\u2019t get a staff member or volunteer over there at the right time.\u00a0 This is something that has been slowly getting easier as word spreads and new volunteers pick up the call,\u201d Koselka said.<\/p>\n<p>The after-school nutrition program is expanding to educate kids on all five food groups and plans to offer 20 weeks of curriculum by the end of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The food bank is also working to put the veggie curriculum online within the next few months for parents to try at home. In the meantime, the food bank is offering to send the vegetable curriculum to schools. Schools can arrange for the program to come to their location when the academic year begins again in the fall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Kids help prepare healthy foods at a recent nutrition lesson at Oak Terrace School in Highwood. 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