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the Easy Choice

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e the Healthy Choice

Your pantry program team will learn how to: • Assemble and promote healthy food packages • Encourage pantry clients to select healthy foods • Bundle healthy foods together and pair with recipes • Use food displays, signs, and demonstrations to encourage clients to make healthy choices • Incorporate FSNE nutrition education resources into your program • Procure healthy foods

Become an Agent of Healthy Change!Make the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice training engages food pantry staff and volunteers to become agents of healthy change! Partner with FSNE to support your efforts to procure, distribute, increase access, and encourage participants’ consumption of healthy, nutritious foods.

Staff and volunteers will learn methods to identify healthy food choices, and to interact with clients to encourage healthy change through small group discussions and hands-on learning activities.

For more information about partnering with FSNE please contact:

Lynn Rubin Traversa at the FSNE State Office lrubin@umd.edu