Nutrition Education

     The Wisconsin Nutrition Education Program (WNEP) is a UW-Extension nutrition education program that helps limited resource families and individuals  choose healthful diets, purchase and prepare healthful food and handle it safely, and become more food secure by spending their food dollars wisely.                       

• Adult and Youth Nutrition
• Family Meals
• Safe Food Handling, Food Preparation, and Storage Practices
• Managing food Resources
• Thrifty Shopping Practices

Brochures                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Recipes

Newsletters

Coalitions

• UW – Extension WNEP Connect to the statewide program!
• Dunn County WNEP brochure
• Making the Right Connection 2012

Food, Nutrition and Health News and Announcements from around the state

• Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Health Affairs article
• Nutrition and Physical Activity of Children in Child Care Centers
• Healthy Hearts
• Healthy Beverages
• 2012 Wisconsin Meat Processing School
• Press Releases

Resources for consumers and food processors:

• Wisconsin Nutrition Education Program (WNEP)
• Nutrition for Family Living Newsletters
• Nutrition Resources Webography from Steenbock Library and UW-Extension
• Searchable file of food.nutrition tips from UW-Extension
• List of government websites with nutrition information
• Nutrition Facts Label
• Look up calories/nutrients in a food
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• My Pyramid Food Guide
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health
• Weight Control Information from the National Institutes of Health
• American Dietetic Association
• Consumer Corner at the USDA National Agricultural Library’s Food and Nutrition Information Center
• Recipe Finder
• Fight BAC!
• Be Food Safe
• Gateway to U.S. – Government food safety information
• USDA Food Safety information
• Food Safety & Health (UW Extension food safety and food preservation information)
• National Center for Home Food Preservation (University of Georgia)

If you have any questions regarding WNEP in Dunn County, please contact:

Staff

  Sandy Tarter, Nutrition Coordinator   sandy.tarter@ces.uwex.edu                

  Karen Fritz, Nutrition Educator  karen.fritz@ces.uwex.edu                                           

UW Extension

800 Wilson Ave, Government Center, Room 330

Menomonie, WI  54751

 715-232-1636