Food Skills

Foundations of Healthy Eating
What are food skills?

  • Growing food
  • Planning, selecting, and budgeting for healthy food
  • Preparing safe, healthy food from scratch
  • Trying new foods
  • Understanding the food system, including agriculture and cultural dimensions of food

Goals

Children, Youth and Young Adults

Children, youth, and young adults will understand the basics of food production, food preparation, and healthy food choices.

Adults

Adults will have the food skills they need to select and prepare healthy, culturally appropriate, affordable foods for themselves and their families.

Food Service Professionals

Foodservice professionals will have the knowledge and skills they need to plan, prepare, and serve healthy, culturally appropriate meals within an institutional budget.

The Minnesota Food Charter will ensure we have healthy, affordable and safe food, building a legacy of health for future generations.

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The Minnesota Food Charter Network is supported by the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, the Minnesota Department of Health, University of Minnesota Extension, and the General Mills Foundation. This material was funded in part by USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – SNAP – with funds received from and through the Minnesota Department of Human Services. USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. The Minnesota Food Charter Network is hosted by the University of Minnesota’s Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute.