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Month Of Menus

Month of Menus

Healthy Meals for Healthy Living

The Month of Menus is a tool to help families use groceries available from local food pantries to prepare nutri-

tious meals.

Efforts have been made to plan for nutritional adequacy and variety, including menus with moderate amounts of

fat and sodium. While daily menus could have been developed including low-fat, low-sodium foods, our

experience indicates those foods are not yet common to the local food pantry.

While we hope that the Month of Menus can be distributed in it’s entirety, we believe that some food pantries

may want to copy only a week of menus at a time to distribute with foods featured in those menus. Thus, food

safety and food preparation tips are repeated throughout the four-week plan, instead of making references to

information found in menus from previous weeks.

Note that safe temperatures have been included with meat products as the measure of doneness. We hope that

educational efforts will be made to help limited resource audiences obtain a food thermometer.

An appendix is also included featuring information about:

• Basic measuring and cooking

• Basic substitutions and conversion charts

• Basic cookware substitutions, cutting recipes down, and

• Food safety/Food storage

These can be copied and distributed as needed.

We send our thanks to Kristi Lee, KSU Dietetics Intern, for working diligently on menu plans and nutrient

analysis.

Lisa Martin, RD, LD

County Extension Agent, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program

K-State Research & Extension - Shawnee County

Cindy Evans

County Extension Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences

K-State Research & Extension - Shawnee County

This material was funded by USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) through a

contract awarded by the Kansas Department for Children and Families. USDA is an equal opportunity

employer and provider. SNAP provides nutrition assistance to people with low income. It can help you

buy nutritious foods for a better diet. To find out more call 1-800-221-5689.

Month Of Menus