Links & Resources to Eat Healthy

Eat Healthy Resources

Organic Produce Delivery

Looking for a convenient way to include more fruits and vegetables in your day? Two local businesses will deliver organic produce right to your home or work. Having the fruits and vegetables at your fingertips is one more way to help make the healthy choice the easy choice!

• Churn Creek Meadow Organic Farm
• Red Gate Ranch

Local Foods Directory

The Healthy Shasta Website now includes a Local Farms and Food Vendor Listing where you can find a community resource of local producers in Northern California.

Did you know that if consumers in the six-county region surrounding Shasta County (Shasta, Trinity, Siskiyou, Modoc, Lassen, Tehama) bought $5 of their food from local farms each week, farms would earn $89 million of income annually – meaning $89 million per year would enter our region’s economy! Eating locally supports our community and our environment. As always, Healthy Shasta promotes the healthy consumption of food and recommends looking at our healthy eating resources and the 2020-25 Dietary Guidelines for information on the foods that fit best for your health needs.

Good Food on a Tight Budget

Double your food dollars with EBT Market Match at local Farmers’ Markets in 2022! Swap your card at the market and get up to $15 in tokens to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables.

Stretching your dollars to get a month’s worth of healthy, filling food can be a challenge. The Environmental Working Group (EWG), in collaboration with Share Our Strength, published this guide to help you fill your plate with delicious, healthy food – and save time and money. EWG assessed nearly 1,200 foods and hand-picked the best 100 or so that pack in nutrients at a good price, with the fewest pesticides, contaminants and artificial ingredients. To get the guide, visit http://www.ewg.org/goodfood/ or download it below. Also available is a recipe booklet full of tasty, easy to prepare recipes.

• Good Food on a Tight Budget (pdf)
• Recipe booklet (pdf)

Websites

• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
• California Project Lean
• CDC – Fruit & Vegetables
• Center for Science in the Public Interest
• Champions for Change
• Eat Fresh
• Eat Smart. Play Hard. Healthy Lifestyle!
• Fruits & Veggies – More Matters
• Harvard School of Public Health – The Nutrition Source
• Harvest of the Month
• Kids Eat Right
• Kids Health
• Let’s Move
• Meals Matter
• My Plate
• Network for a Healthy California
• Roots of Change
• Befoodsafe.gov
• Fightbac.org

For Kids

• Kids Health
• Kids Health – Mission Nutrition
• Health Games for Kids

Printed Materials for Parents

• Healthy Snacks for Children
• Straight A’s with a Healthy Breakfast
• What is a Healthy Food
• Yummy Tummy Cookbook
• Healthy Holiday Eating

Printed Materials for Teachers

The following printed materials for teachers are a part of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Classrooms Toolkit developed by the Healthy Students Initiative.

Classroom Parties

• Ghoulishly Great Ideas
• Happy Healthy Halloween
• Healthy Celebrations
• Healthy Classroom Party Ideas
• Healthy Halloween Treats
• Healthy Holiday Party Ideas
• Healthy School Celebrations
• Healthy Treats for Classroom Parties
• Party Foods for the Classroom
• Valentines Party Treat Ideas

Healthy Rewards

• Non-Food Alternatives
• We Can! Classroom Parties & Incentives
• Alternatives to Food as Reward
• Constructive Classroom Rewards
• Alternatives to Using Food as Reward
• Non-Food Reward Ideas
• Food-Free Celebration Ideas

Healthy Fundraising

• Creative Financing & Fun Fundraising
• Fundraising Options to Schools
• Healthy Fundraising

Healthy Snacks

• Healthy Alternatives for Snacks
• Tasty Snacks for Healthy Kids
• Snacking Tips for Healthy Kids
• Healthy Snacks for Home and Classroom
• Fuel Learning with Fruits and Vegetables

Nutrition Education

• Nutrition Education Resources

Food Allergy Information

• American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
• Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
• Cleveland Clinic Food Allergy Information
• Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN)
• FAAN Teens
• Mayo Clinic Food Allergy Information
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

• JAMA Food Allergies Patient Page