Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health

Nutrition Education


May 4, 2023

Teen Feed: Foods to Choose From to Create Balanced Meals

Created a short document providing a list of healthy foods falling under the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, as well as example meals tailored to various dietary patterns (e.g., vegetarianism, veganism, gluten-free, etc.).

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A Visual Adaptation of the HER Guidelines Table for Teen Feed Volunteers

Developed an “at-a-glance” version of the Healthy Eating Research (HER) Guidelines Table with example images of foods within the categories of “often”, “sometimes”, or “rarely” to help Teen Feed volunteers offer balanced meal options for their guests.

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Teen Feed Meal Evaluation Tool

Created a meal evaluation tool (“Meal Checklist”) for Teen Feed volunteers to use before or after building their meals. Google Form questions both gather information on and help guide volunteers into making healthy, balanced food choices. Meal-level and high-level metrics are aggregated in an easy-to-understand Google spreadsheet (“Teen Feed Metrics”).

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Teen Feed: Build Your Own Healthy Meal Challenge

Prepared a guide with a list of healthy or “choose often” options for each food category so clients can combine items they like and build their own version of a healthy, balanced meal.

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Teen Feed: Population and Impact

Designed a handout for Teen Feed to utilize when soliciting donors and volunteers, which provides an overview of their adolescent client population and their unique nutrition needs and the impact the organization’s social and nutrition justice work provides to the community.

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Teen Feed: Ensuring Physical and Emotional Safety at Mealtimes

Used the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) model to create a fact sheet and guide for Teen Feed volunteers to use when building their client meals. Focuses on supporting both the emotional and nutritional health of the organization’s youth clientele.

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August 18, 2022

Afghan Foods Nutrition Education

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March 3, 2022

Developing Nutrition Education Materials for the Hunger Intervention Program (HIP)

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Healthy Food as Told by Tiktok: A Mixed Methods Content Analysis of #healthyrecipes on Tiktok

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September 2, 2020

Development of a Culturally Relevant Diabetes Nutrition Resource

EthnoMed, an online medical resource created by the joint efforts of Harborview Medical Center and UW Health Sciences Libraries, works with several partners to create health education resources for various immigrant and refugee communities in the Seattle area. These resources are used by providers when discussing how culture-specific foods affect blood sugar. Recently, clinicians serving...

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