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PowerPoints
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Food and Nutrition PowerPoints
- Tiny Tastes Can Total BIG Calories over the Winter Holidays
- Supermarket Savings: 16 Tips that Total BIG Bucks!
- Name that Food!
- The Garden Grocery: Food Safety & Selection at the Farmers' Market

- Let's Play "FOOD"Ball! (Interactive football game promoting basic concepts of MyPyramid)
- Hitting for Home Plate! (interactive baseball game on naturally nutrient- rich foods)
- Spending Your Calorie Salary: Youth Version

- Meet the Grain Group

- Spending Your Calorie Salary: Tips for Using MyPyramid

- Avoid Portion Distortion with MyPyramid's Specific Guidelines

- Have Your Cake & EAT IT Too! MyPyramid & Discretionary Calories
- Add a Little SPICE (& HERBS) to Your Life!

- Nutrition and Osteoporosis
- Food for Thought: FOOD QUOTES
- The A, B, C's for a Healthy School
Food Safety Power Points
- The Garden Grocery: Food Safety & Selection at the Farmers' Market

- Let's Play ... FOOD: Keep or Toss?

- Food Safety: What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You!
- Cold Pizza for Breakfast: MyPyramid Food Safety Tips for Teens & Tweens Who Cook

- Foodborne Illness Can Cause More than a Stomach Ache: MyPyramid Food Safety Guidelines
Handouts/Posters
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Food & Nutrition
- Gluten-free Sorghum Recipes

- Supermarket Savings: 16 Tips that Total BIG Bucks!

- Fitness Indulgence
- Spending Your Calorie Salary: Tips for Using MyPyramid

- Spending Your Calorie Salary: Youth Version

- Fruit and Vegetable Facts (30 fact sheets)
- 30 MyPyramid Steps to a Healthier You
- Avoid Portion Distortion with MyPyramid's Specific Guidelines

- Meet the Grain Group: Tips for Using MyPyramid

- Eat Smart: How to Fill Up, Not Out!
- Healthy Cooking with Spices and Herbs
- Healthy Cooking with Fresh Herbs
- Add a Little Spice (& Herbs) to Your Life

- Walk Your Way to Health
Use in conjunction with a 10,000 Steps program. - Ingredient Substitutions
- Reducing the Size of Recipes
Food Safety
General Food Safety Topics (separate section on handwashing follows)
- The Garden Grocery: Food Safety & Selection at the Farmers' Market
- Pass the Taste Test ... Use a Thermometer!
- Food Safety Checklist for "Planned-Over" Foods
- Food Storage Fact Sheet
- Refrigerator Poster (Be Cool, Chill out!)
- Cleaning the Kitchen Cupboard: Toss or Save?
- Grill It Safely
- Foodborne Illness Can Cause More than a Stomach Ache: MyPyramid Food Safety Guidelines

- Cold Pizza for Breakfast: MyPyramid Food Safety Tips for Teens & Tweens Who Cook

- Let's Play ... FOOD: Keep or Toss?

- Food Safety: What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You!

- Table tents (features 6 table tents on different food safety topics.
- Click HERE to view ALL handwashing materials on the same Web page.
- Handwashing Poster #1: Spanish/English poster and English only version (for all ages) plus activity sheet for younger children
- Handwashing Poster #2: Wash Those Hands! (for all ages)
- Handwashing Poster #3: Sink Those Germs (for younger children)
- Handwashing Poster #4: Wash Your Hands After... (for younger children)
- Handwashing Table Tent
- Sink Those Germs! Activity Sheet (for younger children)
- Sink Those Germs! Health Fair Activity (for younger children)
Health Fair Activities
(All include related handouts)
- Let's Play ... FOOD: Keep or Toss? (Interactive PowerPoint)
- Sink Those Germs! (bean bag toss for younger children)
- Portion Distortion (self-looping PowerPoint)
- Test Your Home Refrigerator Food Safety Savvy
Table Tents
- Food safety table tents (6 topics; reproduce on 8 1/2 by 11-inch paper)
Displays
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