Healthy Acadia offering free classes to help you eat healthy on a budget

MACHIAS — Are you looking for ways to stretch your food budget and create healthy and delicious meals at home? Healthy Acadia’s SNAP-Ed Nutrition Educators offers free classes for community members to explore tasty and creative ways to eat healthier and stretch their food budgets.

In March Healthy Acadia will offer, 10 Tips for Adults, Series B – Choose My Plate, a free, healthy eating, healthy cooking on-a-budget class series at Porter Memorial Library in Machias.  This free workshop series is designed to help participants gain the skills and confidence to create meals they will love while also making the most of their time and budget. Participants will learn how to select nutritious and low-cost ingredients and prepare them in ways that taste great and provide the best nourishment possible for themselves and their families.

Classes will meet for one hour each week for four weeks on Fridays, March 1, 8, 15, and 22, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Porter Memorial Library, 92 Court Street. In each session, Healthy Acadia Nutrition Educator Shannon Cherry will feature a food demonstration with hands-on cooking opportunities and recipes for participants to take home. Participants who attend all four classes will receive a free gift bag, cookbook, and kitchen items.

Classes are free, however; pre-registration is required as seating is limited. Contact Cherry at 207-598-6587 or email shannon.cherry@healthyacadia.org for more information and to register for this class series.

Healthy Acadia’s Maine SNAP-Ed Nutrition Educators offer year-round cooking and nutrition classes in partnership with schools and organizations throughout Hancock and Washington counties. To learn more or schedule a class, contact Mandy (mandy.kalin@healthyacadia.org) or Shannon (shannon.cherry@healthyacadia.org) in Washington County, or Isi (isi.munoz@healthyacadia.org) or Abby (abby.miller@healthyacadia.org) in Hancock County.

Healthy Acadia is a 501(C)(3) community health organization building vibrant communities and making it easier for all people to lead healthy lives throughout Washington and Hancock counties. For more information about Healthy Acadia’s efforts to address food insecurity and other health initiatives, visit www.healthyacadia.org .