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Share your Passion for Food - Teach about Nutrition / Cooking!

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ORGANIZATION: Cooking Matters Illinois

  • 157 people are interested

Empower people to buy and make healthy food on a budget! Become a nutrition or cooking instructor at many locations throughout Chicago. Cooking Matters instructors teach 2-hour weekly classes for 6 weeks using well-developed lesson plans and recipes.

Cooking and nutrition instructors team-teach, supplementing nutrition information and activities with their own cooking experience to lead interactive lessons. Cooking Matters provides a training for instructors as well as class materials, including a teaching guide, participant handouts, kitchen supplies, and food.

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About Cooking Matters Illinois

Location:

1256 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60642, US

Mission Statement

Cooking Matters empowers people to make healthy food choices on a budget. We share practical strategies to use in the kitchen and at the store. EverThrive Illinois hosts Cooking Matters programs at community organizations throughout Illinois, primarily in the Chicago area.

Description

Cooking Matters mobilizes volunteers to to lead and support free programs year-round at local community organizations. Cooking Matters courses provide healthy food strategies through facilitated discussions, activities, and hands-on food preparation. Our curricula target kids, teens, adults, families, parents, and child care professionals. Participants make and eat a healthy snack and meal each class. Adults also receive a bag of groceries to practice their skills at home. Cooking Matters at the Store offers interactive food shopping information, either as part of a 6-week class or as a one-time event. These 2-hour sessions at local grocery stores or community centers include price comparisons, label reading, and a healthy meal ideas under $10.

CAUSE AREAS

Education & Literacy
Health & Medicine
Hunger
Education & Literacy, Health & Medicine, Hunger

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

1256 W Chicago Ave.Chicago, IL 60642

(41.896454,-87.65977)
 

DATE POSTED

February 26, 2016

SKILLS

  • Spanish
  • People Skills
  • Cooking / Catering
  • Teaching / Instruction

GOOD FOR

  • People 55+

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 18
  • Orientation or Training
  • 3 hours weekly for 6 weeks

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