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National Food Day Celebrated
Posted October 24, 2014
On October 24th we celebrated National Food Day with a recipe contest coordinated by our Nutrition Services team. Recipes included ingredients that are locally grown, utilizing unprocessed ingredients, and had a healthy focus. A team of three judges (Resident Relations Coordinator Edna Hedani, residnet James Miller, and Clinical Dietitian Caitlin Smith) judged the prepared recipies based on how closely the recipe ingredients aligned with food justice - "food that is healthy, affordable, and produced with care for the environment, farm animals, and the people who grow, harvest, and serve." Recipes were also judged on taste, appearance, ease of preparation, and nutrition components. The pineapple coconut smoothie prepared by the Activities team was awaded first place. Jusges are pictured above sampling the winning recipe.
National Food Day is a day to resolve to make changes in our own diets and to take action to solve food-related problems in our communities at the local, state, and national level. In 2014, Food Day will have a special focus on food access and justice for food and farm workers.This annual event involves some of the country’s most prominent food activists, united by a vision of food that is healthy, affordable, and produced with care for the environment, farm animals, and the people who grow, harvest, and serve it.
The typical American diet is contributing to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other health problems. Those problems cost Americans more than $150 billion per year. Plus, a meat-heavy diet takes a terrible toll on the environment.
Eating Real can save your own health and put our food system on a more humane, sustainable path. With America’s resources, there’s no excuse for hunger, low wages for food and farm workers, or inhumane conditions for farm animals.