Nutrition & Healthy Living
The USDA is responsible for providing a safety net for millions of Americans who are food-insecure and for developing and promoting dietary guidance based on scientific evidence.
Food security means access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life
SNAP-Ed teaches people to shop for and cook healthy meals. SNAP-Ed can help people learn how to make their SNAP dollars stretch.
Product information & recipes for USDA Foods available to households through the FDPIR, the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), and TEFAP
The USDA's food and nutrition assistance programs help address the needs of low-income Americans
Make Tasty, Affordable Holiday Menus with SNAP-Ed Connection recipes! All recipes meet the USDA MyPlate Kitchen Criteria.
This guide can help you explore different fruits and vegetables throughout the year. Seasonal produce in your area will vary by growing conditions and weather.
FNS administers 15 federal nutrition assistance programs including WIC, SNAP, and school meals
The child nutrition programs are administered by USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
Healthy food choices don't have to cost a lot. Use the Shop Simple with MyPlate to discover new ways to prepare budget-friendly foods!
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans is designed for nutrition and health professionals to help individuals (ages 2 years and older) and families to consume a healthful and nutritionally adequate diet.
From Our Nutrition & Healthy Living Archives:
United States Department of Agriculture
Nutrition Recipes
New for 2014: USDA Foods household fact sheets, the recipes included on the fact sheets, and the recipes in the cookbook developed for FDPIR entitled “A Harvest of Recipes with USDA Foods’ will be a part of a new database at a new USDA Web site entitled “What’s Cooking? USDA Mixing Bowl”.
United States Department of Agriculture
Recipe Finder
We invite you to search the database of recipes submitted by nutrition and health professionals and organizations. Nutrition educators in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and other FNS nutrition assistance programs and their partners are encouraged to use the database to support their nutrition education messages.
Food For Seniors Could Save Some States Money
Meals for seniors
Home-delivered meals bring not only food to seniors but also the opportunity to remain in their homes. A new study by Brown University public health researchers projects that if every U.S. state in the lower 48 expanded the number of seniors receiving meals by just 1 percent, 1,722 more Medicaid recipients avoid living in a nursing home and most states would experience a net annual savings from implementing the expansion.
Senior Menu Planning
Sample Menus
The food many seniors eat at an adult day care program will be the tastiest and healthiest food they will have all day. This link will review the following: Cultural/ethnic and regional food preferences, menu planning, cycle menu development, menu evaluation, menus for special diets, and sample menus.
Food Research and Action Center
Federal Food and Nutrition Programs
Counterintuitively, obesity plagues low-income people in this country just as hunger and food insecurity do. FRAC is leading the efforts to identify and communicate the connections among poverty, hunger, inadequate resources for healthy diets, and obesity among low-income people. FRAC also is working to broaden the reach of and improve the quality of public nutrition programs as a strategy to reduce obesity.
Food Research and Action Center
Federal Food and Nutrition Programs
Counterintuitively, obesity plagues low-income people in this country just as hunger and food insecurity do. FRAC is leading the efforts to identify and communicate the connections among poverty, hunger, inadequate resources for healthy diets, and obesity among low-income people. FRAC also is working to broaden the reach of and improve the quality of public nutrition programs as a strategy to reduce obesity.