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Story of Your Dinner is a Hit in West Virginia!

November 30, 2016

Elaine Tiller, Nutrition Outreach Instructor with the West Virginia Family Nutritionelaine-tiller-head-shot Program in Princeton knows her way around a food safety class.

Raising Awareness of Home Food Safety Steps
She found the Story of Your Dinner video (storyofyourdinner.org) to be an effective tool for raising awareness of the food safety steps needed at home to keep family meals safe. Elaine offers Eating Smart Being Active classes through West Virginia University Extension. Her program targets adults with limited resources who are parents with children in Head Start. She also teaches a class to vocational high school seniors.

Video Hits the Mark
Elaine used the Story of Your Dinner pre-and post-video viewing evaluations to assess the success of the presentation. Viewers learned they shouldn’t rinse chicken before cooking it. It also reinforced the importance of hand washing before and after handling food—steps Elaine reviews in her classes also.

Other Story of Your Dinner resources were popular with the class participants as well. The placemats were a hit, and the recipes with food safety instructions were approved for use in classes by the staff supervisor, an RD. Elaine intends to use them in future cooking classes.

Thermometers Bring Food Safety Homeelaine-tiller-sink-those-germs
Class participants receive their own instant read food thermometer to use at home, along with a FightBAC temperature chart which Elaine downloads from the website, laminates, and adds a magnet to. This way class participants can hang it right in their kitchen- handy for when using their new food thermometer!

“Sink Those Germs!”
For teaching the kids- Elaine developed the “Sink those Germs” game for health fairs. She uses a “sink” made from a dish pan with an added a spigot and bean bag “germs”. Children are quizzed on when they are supposed to wash their hands and when they answer correctly, they toss those nasty germs (bean bags) into the “sink” and down the drain.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Fight BAC, Food handling, food safety, Handwashing, Home food safety, Poultry, Story of Your Dinner, storyofyourdinner, West Virginia

BAC Fighter works towards diets that are both junk-free and foodborne pathogen-free

June 26, 2015

Karina Walker, a graduate student pursuing a Master in Nutritional Sciences at West Virginia University shares her dreams of a food-safe and natural world below.

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Ever since completing my first nutrition course, I have known that a future career in the health and food field was where I belonged. I love to discuss how eating a balanced diet can affect many parts of our health, from our ability to sleep well to our chronic disease risk. However, I also emphasize that before eating nutritious foods, we must first be sure they aren’t actually dangers in disguise. Consuming a salad packed with fresh vegetables and topped with salmon would make a great lunch choice for you and your family; but if the vegetables weren’t washed thoroughly or the salmon was stored at an improper temperature, a once healthy meal quickly morphs into a threat instead of a treat to our bodies. It is imperative that we educate families on how to not only eat healthy but also how to prepare, handle, cook and store their foods. In addition, consumers must understand the significance of food recalls and how to properly react to them. Many people will continue to eat recalled foods while others will avoid the food and foods similar to it that were not even involved in the recall long after it is over. As an aspiring registered dietitian, I am hoping to help clear this confusion and advocate diets that are both junk-free and foodborne pathogen-free. My master’s thesis research of developing an antimicrobial fruit wash coincides with this goal. The wash will be made using citrus essential oils and organic acids. These recognizable ingredients agree with families’ desire to purchase more natural products. I am happy my education and passion can combine as there is nothing I’d rather do than promote and contribute to a world where the combination of practicing food safety and consuming nutritious food has become the norm at every meal.

 

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: BAC Fighter, Fight BAC, food safety, Food safety education, produce safety, West Virginia

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