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!
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.
Looking for food grown/produced in or around Shasta County? The Local Food Guide is a good start. It lists multiple sources of locally produced food and where to buy it. According to a study conducted in early 2012, if consumers in the 6 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 new farm income annually – meaning an additional $89 million per year would enter the region’s economy.
Local Food Guide (pdf)
Please note: This guide is a work in progress. If you have suggestions or would like to be included please contact Healthy Shasta, 225-3745 or hsinfo@healthyshasta.org.
The following printed materials for teachers are a part of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Classrooms Toolkit developed by the Healthy Students Initiative.
In a series of animated videos released this week, Saul the Salt Monster helps educate Shasta County families about condiments, deli meats and other high sodium foods that can impact high blood pressure. Created with stop-motion animation, the whim…
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A new video released by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
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If you did not get a chance to see this award winning film from Tyler Faires and Toby Johnston about local food - who is growing it and who is cooking it - then take a break and enjoy a real treat. Follow the link below. http://vimeo.com/34549860 …
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Halloween is just around the corner and typically that means LOTS of candy around the house. For tips and tricks on how to make this Halloween both happy AND healthy, check out the resources below: - Healthy Halloween Treats handout - Healthy H…
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Healthy Shasta would like to thank the restaurants and food service operators that participated in the recent Cut the Sodium, Keep the Flavor workshop. On average, Americans eat more than twice the recommended sodium limit for most adults and…
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