EFNEP Training: Week 2
I definitely feel like I escaped technology for 3 weeks straight! We have finished the second and third weeks of training, which covered vitamins, minerals, more quick/easy/cheap recipes, knife skills and food preparation techniques! I’ll start out with the Easy Lasagna Recipe:
Again, this is a “hamburger helper” type of meal that is healthier! The directions are as follow:
Brown lean ground beef ( 96%) and drain excess grease. Add in whole wheat pasta noodles and chunky vegetable pasta sauce, simmering for 15 minutes to cook noodles. Add in nonfat cottage cheese and 1 cup lowfat shredded mozzarella and let cook until cheese melts.
Here is my plate with a big salad full of fresh greenery!
As you can see, there are fresh ingredients with minimal trans fat, sodium, saturated fats, etc. It involved ingredients that were processed, but minimally (Canned pasta sauce, whole wheat noodles, cheese).
This week I did a Knife Skills Demonstration and my co-facilitator was gracious enough to photograph me!
I am preparing now for a video that will be added to training on Knife Skills, but during this week we wanted to show the trainees’ how to dice an onion and how to cut a potato into even size “Fries”.
I am preparing now for a video that will be added to training on Knife Skills, but during this week we wanted to show the trainees’ how to dice an onion and how to cut a potato into even size “Fries”.
I demonstrated the way I learned how to cut an onion and then helped a trainee to further chop the onion into smaller pieces by running your knife through quickly.
Me demonstrating:
And up close, I am guiding the trainees through cutting panels of potatoes for french fries…
We prepared so many recipes this week from the EFNEP cookbook. Almost all of them were a hit with our trainees…
A veggie pasta salad:
Chicken and Cheese Enchiladas:
Spicy Mini Meatloaves:
Easy Fruit Salad:
MyPyramid Sampler:
This is to showcase the food groups of MyPyramid: Fruits, Veggies, and Milk Groups were used… we also had some chopped nuts too
Fiesta Salad:
My favorite was the Easy Fruit Salad and I actually was surprised by the Fiesta Salad. I have tried Black Eyed Peas only a few times and never enjoyed them. The dressing for this salad was a little sweeter and contrasted the bell pepper/onion very well!
How is everyone doing?!
I miss my bloggers/readers and need to catch up with all of you! Can’t wait to do that this week since I have my internet back and a pretty normal routine once again!
