Healthy Foods
GOAL: By 2022, the Grosse Pointes and Harper Woods will support a culture of health that increases access to healthy foods and promotes healthy eating.
Objectives:
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Encourage, promote and engage with Farmers markets in the area
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Create monthly nutritional classes (in Farmers Markets, hospital, community partners, grocery stores). Each effort individually self-contained on a different topic such as healthy grains, avoiding sugar, allergies, food on the go, portions, meal prep and planning, high sodium, bad carbs, good carbs, healthy meals on a budget, avoiding fat etc.. Create and promote Community-supported agriculture, connecting the producer and consumers within the food system more closely by allowing the consumer to subscribe to the harvest of a certain farms
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Create a tool kit for promoting family meals and conversation family topics
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Create pop up events with restaurants to do cooking demo pop-ups with healthy cooking and foods
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Create materials for local Grocery stores to have health messages and tips
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Create a Healthy restaurant award program (see what other coalitions have done)
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Promote benefits of family dinners see https://extension.usu.edu/news_sections/home_family_and_food/create-family-mealtime)