Nutrition and Healthy Eating

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WAVE Sport Nutrition Curriculum

The WAVE Sport Nutrition Curriculum uses youth's interest in sports to teach them about healthy eating and hydration to fuel a healthy, active body for life. This knowledge helps athletes manage body weight and avoid unwanted ...

Siew Sun Wong | Sep 2018 | OSU Extension Catalog

Food Hero

Food Hero is your go-to site for quick, tasty, healthy recipes and helpful tips. Whether you're a beginner or a pro, you'll find something new for your family to enjoy.

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Nutrition Education and Outreach Programs

The OSU Extension Service Nutrition Education and Outreach Programs are a part of the Family and Community Health Program and the College of Public Health and Human Sciences. Programs include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

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OSU Extension and Bi-Mart team up to offer food preservation information

The Extension-designed posters hang in appropriate aisles – canning, hunting, drying – in the employee-owned chain’s 80 stores in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

Kym Pokorny | Jul 16, 2020 | News story

Canning Timer and Checklist App

Oregon State University Extension Canning Timer and Checklist app can help you safely can your favorite fruits, vegetables, and meats. Check it out on both iOS and Android. iTunes: ...

Jun 2020 | Video

Food Hero Recipe Montage

http://foodhero.org/recipes/healthy-recipes A compilation of all of the Food Hero recipe videos to date.

Jul 2018 | Video

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OSU Extension and Bi-Mart team up to offer food preservation information

The Extension-designed posters hang in appropriate aisles – canning, hunting, drying – in the employee-owned chain’s 80 stores in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

Kym Pokorny | Jul 16, 2020 | News story

Video lessons prove popular for northeast Oregon nutrition educators

The educators use recipes from Extension’s Food Hero program.

Jim Sloan | May 18, 2020 | News story

Enrollment skyrockets for OSU Master Gardener vegetable course

More than 17,600 people – at a growing clip of about 1,000 more each day – are signing up for a vegetable gardening course offered by the Oregon State University Extension Service, as people nationally abide by stay-at-home pandemic orders.

Chris Branam | Apr 1, 2020 | News story

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Katie Ahern

Family & Community Health/SNAP-Ed

Becca Colton

Family & Community Health/SNAP-Ed

Contact me with questions about Nutrition and Wellness programming in Baker County

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Family & Community Health/SNAP-Ed

Allison Harris

Nutrition Program Coordinator

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Should I worry about the cyanide in lima beans?

Q: I've purchased yellow "butter beans" immature in the pods from a local farm stand. They are very good. But I just learned that lima beans have (or convert into) cyanide and so mature beans require long cooking to remove ...

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