Brought to you by Maryland’s Food Supplement Nutrition Education Program (FSNE), MyPlate for My Family is a USDA curriculum designed to encourage adults and their families to make healthy food and physical activity choices. In MyPlate for My Family, the main messages of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 are presented using dialogue-based learning. The focus is on the learner and the participants are actively engaged in the learning process, helping facilitate behavior change with hands-on activities that are engaging for participants.

MyPlate for My Family curriculum:

• Promotes behavior change by involving participants in interactive sessions

• Encourages participants to use nutrition skills and practice physical activities

• Designed to be delivered to small groups

• Sessions are approximately 45 minutes in length

• Participant materials are available in English and Spanish

The MyPlate for My Family Toolkit includes resources to improve healthy eating and physical activity behaviors including an Educator’s Handbook and four lesson guides with handouts.

Additional support for using this curricula may be available to sites serving low-income adults that develop formal collaborating agreements with Maryland Food Supplement Nutrition Education.

Lesson topics include:

• MyPlate Family Meals

• How Much Food and Physical Activity?

• Vegetables and Fruits: Simple Solutions

• Family Time: Active and Fun!

The four sessions provide opportunities for the participants to:

• Be familiar with MyPlate food groups

• Learn how to plan and prepare low-cost healthy family meals

• Identify ways to be physically active most days of the week

Would you like to start using MyPlate for My Family in your program? MyPlate for My Family materials are available online at:

https://snaped.fns.usda.gov

HELPING THOSE IN NEED TO CHOOSE WHOLESOME FOOD, INCREASE

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & SPEND FOOD RESOURCES CAREFULLY.FSNE

I now give my children fruits & vegetables for snacks instead of chips and cookies. We also have more vegetables for dinner. My children seem willing to try more veggies if they have helped me prepare them. — EATING SMART, BEING ACTIVE Part ic ipant

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This material was funded by USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in cooperation with the Maryland Department of Human Resources and the University of Maryland. The University of Maryland Extension will not discriminate against any person because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, political a� liation, and gender identity or expression. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program provides nutrition assistance to people with low income. It can help you buy nutritious foods for a better diet. To � nd out more, contact the Maryland Department of Human Resources at 1-800-332-6347 or apply online at www.marylandsail.org.

HELPING THOSE IN NEED TO CHOOSE WHOLESOME FOOD, INCREASE

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & SPEND FOOD RESOURCES CAREFULLY.FSNE

I now give my children fruits & vegetables for snacks instead of chips and cookies. We also have more vegetables for dinner. My children seem willing to try more veggies if they have helped me prepare them. — EATING SMART, BEING ACTIVE Part ic ipant

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http://www.facebook.com/EatSmartMD http://www.eatsmart.umd.edu/

Adults participating in FSNE nutrition education programs eat a daily variety of fruits and vegetables. 4 out of 10 adults eat more than one type of fruit often or every day, while 6 out of 10 adults eat more than one type of vegetable often or every day.

64% of adults who participate in FSNE nutrition education classes report regularly eating 2 or more vegetables with their main meal.