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serve.

Dishing Up Nutrition

Each two-hour class starts with

abilities, recognizes the importance

nutrition. Then the

eating.

The

organiza-

Gleaners

Community

Food Bank of

Southeastern Michigan to offer a six­
week class, Cooking Matters, to its

staff and to the

people it serves.
was developed
Cooking
by
the anti-hunger nonprofit Share Our
Strength as part of its No Kid Hungry

Matters

locally owned and operated

TARC staff in the

class said they were

and support services
for adults with developmental dis­

care

tion has teamed with Detroit-based

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www.FarmingtonHillslnn.com

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opening
popping
a frozen
tray into the microwave.

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scarce resource for many working peo­

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low monthly price!

to schedule

a

healthy,

but that's often easier said

packaged
they're often more expen­
sive and harder to find. And cooking

ple

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Haley Mullins of AmI Arbor,
who is completing her masters degree
in nutrition at University of Michigan;

tionist

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discussion about

healthy eating and
participants help
Chef Brian, who has been volunteering

for the program for 15 years, prepare
and sample one of the recipes from

the

spiral-bound Cooking Matters for
during the
first dass. (There's a similar Cooking
Matters for Families book.) Recipes are
designed to provide meals for four for

Adults manual distributed

campaign. The program, administered
locally by Gleaners, teaches low­

less than $10.
In the first session, the group made
Barley Jambalaya, a recipe created by

income families and individuals how

Chef Sarah

get the most food for their money
and the most nourishment from those

to

foods.

JARC offered the program for its

independent living clients last sum­

mer.

Another session started in mid­

McKay of Detroit.

Lauren Thomson of Waterford,

who works with two JARe clients in
an apartment at Hunter's
Ridge in

Farmington Hills, said she was looking
learning new recipes she

forward to

could share.

January for staff of JARe's

group homes and transi­
tional homes, where JARC

clients live

'/Personal Training
./Nutrition Coac"hing

more indepen­
dently with staff support.

The class is

one

of the

"University of}ARC"

tinuing education

con­

courses.

Jessica Klein of Detroit,

Cooking Matters coordi­

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nator

INSIDE THE IN THE SECOND WEEK EVERY MONTH

the class, assisted by three
volunteers: Chef Brian

for Gleaners, leads

Granowicz, who works

at

Jessica Klein of Detroit

the class.

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