Nutrient Rich Foods Coalition

Ideas For Educators

You can use the nutrient-rich approach and reproducible handouts in a variety of settings:

Use the handouts to supplement your teaching on wellness, weight management, heart health and diabetes.
Identify areas in clients' eating plans that need a boost of nutrient-richness and provide easy tips from the handouts to help fill in the gaps.
Use the handouts to implement a "small steps" approach to setting goals. Work with your clients to select and circle a few tips for them to try before you meet again.
Incorporate meal suggestions from the Tips to Slip More Nutrients into Your Meals series into meal plans you develop for clients.

Distribute the handouts at theme talks or classes. For example, for a talk on eating well for busy professionals, give out the Eating the Nutrient-Rich Way on the Go and Eating Away from Home the Nutrient-Rich Way handouts.
Conduct a workshop or series of classes entitled "Navigating MyPyramid the Nutrient-Rich Way." Use the ideas in the A Framework for Teaching Consumers about MyPyramid and the Nutrient-Rich Approach to Choosing Foods section to help develop your teaching points. Provide the handouts and do a tasting of nutrient-rich foods from each MyPyramid food group.
At health fairs and fitness events, give away goodie bags filled with the handouts and samples of nonperishable nutrient-rich foods.
Conduct a nutrient-rich supermarket tour. Use the Shop the Perimeter Nutrient-Rich Shopping List , Nutrition Facts Label, and Making Nutrient-Rich Choices from the MyPyramid Food Groups sections as handouts and as resources for the tips you give during the tour.
Use the meal suggestions in the Tips to Slip More Nutrients into Your Meals (Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner) series to do a cooking demo on how to assemble nutrient-rich meals fast. Provide the handouts to attendees.