Nutritional Economics

A four-session practical workshop designed to improve both your health and your bank balance.

Session 1: Practicality and Creativity in the Kitchen

Smart Planning and Adjusting Your Shopping: Learn how to adjust your shopping to your family’s needs.

Understanding Expiration Dates and Throwing Away Less: Understand what the expiration dates on purchased products mean and how to throw away less food.

Smart Storage Tips: Tips for properly storing food and saving a lot of money.

Session 2: Nutrition as Resilience

Tools for Coping with Stress: Tools for coping with stress and changes in eating patterns.

The Impact of Stress on Eating: Understand how pressure and stress affect our eating.

Coping with Emotional Eating: Learn about foods that contribute to a sense of calm and reduce stress.

Session 3: Cooking at Home—Cooking Healthily

A Variety of Cooking Methods: Become familiar with a variety of methods and techniques for healthy cooking.

Homemade Versus Processed: Discussion of homemade food compared with processed food.

Cost Comparison: Examine whether eating out is really more expensive than preparing food at home.

Session 4: Smart Consumerism with Every Purchase

A Healthy Shopping Cart: Learn what a healthy shopping cart should contain.

Protecting Your Wallet at the Supermarket: How to protect your budget and wallet while shopping at the supermarket.

Food Labels: What do food labels tell us about the product?

Nutritional Symbols: Understand the red, green, and in-between symbols.