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July 21, 2015

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Calling all veggie-loving enthusiasts! 🥦🥕🌶️

Vetri Community Partnership is seeking an engaging nutrition educator who will teach hands-on cooking classes to students in Philadelphia and/or Camden through our Vetri Cooking Lab program!

Learn more in the link in our bio.

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Curious about making nutritious choices on cereal

Curious about making nutritious choices on cereal that can help lower cholesterol?

Vetri Community Partnership’s Culinary Medicine Dietitian, Ambrazia Sublett MS, RDN, shared her nutrition education expertise with @eatingwell!

You can read the entire piece in the link in our bio.

SNAP-Ed is a highly effective program AND it's jus

SNAP-Ed is a highly effective program AND it's just good policy!

In the current draft of the federal budget SNAP-Ed is being cut. Would you take a few moments out of your day to call your senators and ask them to not vote for a bill that cuts SNAP-Ed?

In Pennsylvania, your senators are @senfettermanpa and @senmccormickpa. For more info on advocacy and action items, go to: https://savesnaped.org/.

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Last night was, as the kids say, a movie! Spice

Last night was, as the kids say, a movie!

Spice Cabinet members and their guests gathered in the Teaching Kitchen to make Veggie Fajitas, Charred Corn Salsa, and a lightly sweetened Olive Oil Cornmeal Cake! There was even a homemade tortilla assembly line!

Our members are critical to helping achieve our mission to nourish minds, bodies, and communities with nutrition education through cooking. By making a monthly recurring donation, they're making Philadelphia a healthier, more joyful place to live.

Check out the link in bio to learn more about the Spice Cabinet and how to join their esteemed ranks.

Last Friday, Vetri Community Partnership teamed up

Last Friday, Vetri Community Partnership teamed up with @villanovau to host Culinary Medicine 101 — a CPEU-credit event exploring how nutrition education can support better health outcomes. The day was full of didactic lectures, hands-on cooking, and exercises all centered around patient care for registered dietitians.

Read the full blog to see how hands-on education, centering the joy of cooking, and the enjoyment of delicious food is motivating people to make changes for better health in the link in our bio!

Henry is just one of the thousands of students who

Henry is just one of the thousands of students who's lives are impacted by SNAP-Ed. Kids are choosing more nutritious options for snacks because of the consistent and ongoing exposure to fruits and veggies they receive during their SNAP-Ed program.

Now more than ever, we need your support! SNAP-Ed funding is on the chopping block. If you or your family have been impacted by this program, we would you love if you’d contact your senators to voice your opposition to any cuts to SNAP-Ed.

Find your senator, along with more resources on how you can use your voice, linked in bio.

An update from Vetri Community Partnership’s CEO

An update from Vetri Community Partnership’s CEO Maddy Booth regarding the possible elimination of SNAP-Ed, the primary federal program dedicated to delivering nutrition education to low-income individuals and families through trusted, community-based programs.

We are now asking you for your support. If you, your students, your community, or your school has found value with our programming, we would you love if you’d contact your senators to voice your opposition to any cuts to SNAP-Ed.

Please consider taking action by sending a message of support for SNAP-Ed funding to your representative. Resources will be linked in our bio!

Thank you to @generocity.phl for covering the impo

Thank you to @generocity.phl for covering the important work that Vetri Community Partnership, @thefoodtrust, and @sharefoodphilly is doing to combat food insecurity in Philadelphia.

With the current threat to SNAP-Ed funding, we are asking our community to come together now and use your voice. Contact your senators to save SNAP-Ed! More resources, along with the full article, will be provided in the link in our bio.