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When you head to the grocery store, does it often feel like you have to choose between healthy food and affordable food? We all face that dilemma, and especially those of us who may be stretching family income in many facets of our lives. Share Our Strength developed a wonderful program called Cooking Matters at […]

What picture comes to mind when you hear the phrase “food bank”? Maybe this scene? We’re not as conventional as you might think. In fact, many food banks are making headlines with the increase in fresh foods offered to clients. Manna has a number of partnerships with local farms and farmers markets. Last month, Manna […]

Yesterday was my inaugural cooking class in my new job at Manna Food Center! If you check out last week’s post, you can see all the budget shopping secrets I shared with the young parents participating in yesterday’s class. But that was just the first half—we spent the second hour of our class practicing essential […]

Next week, Manna’s Nutrition Education Department is hitting the road! I will be teaching a healthy shopping and cooking class for our local Head Start parents. Since I want to spend most of our class in the kitchen, how do you sum up budget shopping in just a few minutes? With Smokey Robinson’s advice in […]

Although I began cooking recreationally—and my mother attests I am a self-taught cook—people often think I had professional culinary training. This could not be further from the truth! People assume this Must Be Professional when their food is vibrant, their veggies are golden and crispy, and a simple salad bursts with sweet and tangy flavors. […]

We have a generous, talented high schooler interning at Manna this month. Among her long-lasting contributions to Manna, she is a skilled writer. So I’m just going to have her introduce herself in her own eloquent words…   From Meredith: My name is Meredith Barber, and I’m the new intern for the Nutrition Department at […]

In keeping with our picnic theme from recent posts, I’m back with another summer recipe for you! First let’s make a little note about temperature—and I don’t mean small talk about the weather. Keeping food cold—and eating it up before it gets old!—is just as important for that juicy summer produce and other picnic foods […]

Yesterday I had the privilege of stepping away from my nutrition desk-duties and getting into the groove of the groovy hands-on work in our warehouse. Our remarkable volunteers spend hours sorting your abundant donations to stock Manna’s shelves. You might not know that our in-house Registered Dietician, Jenna Umbriac, created a color-coded system for our […]

Cooking your own food is one of the simplest ways to take control of your health—you make the call on salt, fat, and sugar, and even better: no mystery ingredients. On these hot summer days, cooking might seem like an extra chore. But a delicious nutritious meal doesn’t always means standing near a hot stove. […]

What comes to mind when you read “healthy eating”? Likely the two things of which there seems never enough: time and money. “Healthy” cooking sounds like hours shopping, chopping and stirring, right? And surely all of those fruits and vegetables are going to rack up the grocery bill, right? I mentioned my affection for asparagus […]