Nutrition Services

NTFB offers a variety of nutrition education workshops to food insecure North Texans in partnership with local community organizations.  These engaging and fun workshops are taught in a group setting at a host site and teach neighbors the basics of nutrition, cooking, food-budgeting, and food safety to promote healthy and affordable food choices. Nutrition education workshops are available for kids, teens, adults, and seniors. Each workshop includes an engaging nutrition lesson, a fun hands-on activity, a cooking demonstration with some basic culinary lessons, and food sampling.  If your organization is interested in hosting a nutrition education, please complete this Nutrition Education Request Form.

Guided grocery store tours meet our neighbors where they typically shop to teach them about making nutritious and budget-friendly food choices.  During the grocery store tour, neighbors learn about including a variety of different foods from the five food groups of USDAs MyPlate and cost-effective shopping strategies and tips. If your organization is interested in a grocery store tour, please complete this Nutrition Education Request Form.

• Recipes Cards: ntfb.org/recipes
• Cooking Demonstration Videos: www.ntfb.org/cookingdemos
• Spade & Spoon Newsletter: A bi-monthly newsletter from the Nutrition & Garden team that showcases gardening classes or events, gardening how-to’s, delicious recipes, cooking demonstrations, and all things wellness! Sign up on our website: www.ntfb.org/spadeandspoon

Printed nutritional education materials are available upon request. Examples of requested resources include recipes cards, produce cards, and various handouts about healthy cooking, MyPlate, reading food labels, and so on. If your organization is interested in printed nutritional materials for an event, please complete this Nutrition Education Request Form.

This program aims to promote healthy eating habits by implementing sustainable and low-cost strategies that affect the food pantry environment, mainly through nudges. Nudges are subtle changes in the environment and arrangement of food pantries. The healthy choice is made the easy choice by improving the way food is displayed and promoted.  If your organization is interested in participating in the free Nudge Pantry Program, please complete this Nudge Pantry Interest Request Form.