Adult Curricula

The list below features CalFresh Healthy Living, UC-approved adult curricula arranged alphabetically.

• Around the Table for Youth and Young Adults

• Around the Table is designed to build food, nutrition, and cooking literacy, while integrating social emotional learning and using trauma-sensitive facilitation. Participants enjoy hands-on cooking, facilitated conversations, and interactive activities that support healthy connections to food, self, and community. Educator training is required before implementing curriculum.

  Language(s): English
  Delivery Method: Series
  Number of Lessons: 6
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 90 minutes
  Virtual Delivery Materials available through Leah's Pantry. Contact Leah's Pantry for more information.

  Refer to the Leah's Pantry Training Calendar for upcoming Around the Table Facilitator Training.

• Around the Table: Nourishing Families

• Around the Table: Nourishing Families upholds principles of trauma-informed engagement and nourishment. Participants enjoy conversation, reflection, cooking, sharing a meal together, and learning holistic skills to care for their family’s nutritional well-being. This is a six-week curriculum designed for groups of 10-14 adults raising children. It can be conducted in community spaces with or without a kitchen.

  Language(s): English, Spanish
  Delivery Method: Series
  Number of Lessons: 6
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 90 minutes
  Virtual Delivery Materials available through Leah's Pantry. Contact Leah's Pantry for more information.

  Refer to the Leah's Pantry Training Calendar for upcoming Around the Table Facilitator Training.

• Eat Smart, Live Strong

• Eat Smart, Live Strong is an intervention designed to improve fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity among 60-74 year old's participating in or eligible for FNS nutrition assistance programs. The intervention can support the efforts of program providers and communities in delivering nutrition education to low-income older adults.

  Language(s): English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese
  Delivery Method: Single session or series
  Number of Lessons: 4
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 45 minutes

  Links:
  Eat Smart Live Strong Curriculum (English and Spanish)
  Eat Smart Live Strong Curriculum (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Tagalog and Vietnamese)

• EatFresh.org Mini Course

• Healthy eating doesn't have to be confusing! The EatFresh.org Mini Course boosts your nutrition, cooking, and healthy living knowledge. Each of the 15 self-paced topics takes 5-10 minutes to complete. Learn how to eat healthy, save money and cook easy, tasty meals.

  Language(s): English, Spanish
  Delivery Method: Series
  Number of Lessons: 3 (15 topics)
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 5-10 minutes per topic

  Additional Links:
  EatFresh.org Mini Course Guidance
  County Referral Codes for the EatFresh.org Mini Course

• Eating Smart, Being Active

• Eating Smart Being Active is an Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) curriculum for adults developed by EFNEP staffs at Colorado State University and University of California at Davis. Based upon the socioecological model, Eating Smart Being Active is an evidence based, nutrition education and obesity prevention curriculum.

  Language(s): English, Spanish
  Delivery Method: Series
  Number of Lessons: 9
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 90-120 minutes
  Virtual Delivery Materials located in Google Drive.

• Families Eating Smart, Moving More

• Families Eating Smart, Moving More (FESMM) is a direct education intervention designed to improve dietary intake, increase daily physical activity, and improve home food safety practices, food resource management, and food security. The lessons in the curriculum include recipes along with physical activities that help participants learn simple solutions to eat smart and be active every day. FESMM addresses key behaviors linked to obesity by helping families learn how to increase fruit and vegetable intake, eat together as a family, reduce screen/sedentary time, control portion sizes, and limit consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages.

  Language(s): English, Spanish
  Delivery Method: Series
  Number of Lessons: 9
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 60 minutes

• Fresh From the Garden

• Fresh from the Garden targets limited resource home gardeners and their families with lessons designed to increase gardeners' knowledge of healthful eating and physical activity, while emphasizing the health benefits of a vegetable-rich diet. Lesson materials include the full curriculum, optional PowerPoints, handouts, visual aids, a full recipe book, and recipe cards.

  Language(s): English with Spanish supplements
  Delivery Method: Single session or series
  Number of Lessons: 11
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 60 minutes with food demonstration, 90-120 minutes with participatory cooking experience

• Food Smarts for Adults

• Food Smarts is a flexible, learner-centered cooking and nutrition curriculum with materials and lesson plans appropriate for adults, including older adults. Instructor Guides are offered in English and participant materials are offered in multiple languages. Food Smarts Waste Reduction lessons may also be added to the Food Smarts Lessons. Educator training is required before implementing curriculum.

  Language(s): Arabic, Pashto, Somali, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Creole, English, Hmong, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese
  Delivery Method: Series
  Number of Lessons: 3-6
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 30-90 minutes
  Virtual Delivery Materials available through Leah's Pantry. Contact Leah's Pantry for more information.

  Refer to the Leah's Pantry Training Calendar for upcoming Food Smarts Facilitator Training.

• Healthy, Happy Families

• Healthy, Happy Families is a curriculum that encourages parents to promote healthy eating habits in their preschool-aged children. It may also be used with pregnant and parenting teens.

  Language(s): English, Spanish
  Delivery Method: Single session or series
  Number of Lessons: 8
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 20 minutes
  Virtual Delivery Materials located in Google Drive.

  Ordering Links to Lesson Materials:
  Educator's Edition
  Parent's Worksheets
  Families Set

  CalFresh Healthy Living, UC programs can receive a discount when ordering Healthy, Happy Families curriculum from the UC ANR Catalog. Click here for more information.

• MyPlate for My Family

• MyPlate for My Family is an educational toolkit that supports SNAP-Ed nutrition education and obesity prevention efforts and is based on recommendations from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. It targets parents and caregivers who are SNAP eligible and play a key role in planning, purchasing, and preparing food for their families. The toolkit contains 4 lessons, participant handouts, and a marketing brochure.

  Language(s): English, Spanish
  Delivery Method: Series
  Number of Lessons: 4
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 45 minutes
  Virtual Delivery Materials located in Google Drive.

• Making Every Dollar Count

• Are you in control of your money? Or is your money in control of you? The Making Every Dollar Count (MEDC) curriculum teaches participants budgeting and food resource management skills so they can make their food dollars last to the end of the month. The curriculum consists of 8 lessons that can be taught as single sessions or a series.

  Language(s): English, Spanish
  Delivery Method: Single session or series
  Number of Lessons: 8
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 60 minutes
  Virtual Delivery Materials located in Google Drive.

  Additional Links:
  Online MEDC Curriculum Lessons

  Contact the CFHL, UC State Office for a hard copy of the curriculum.

• Nutrition Spotlight Education

• Nutrition Spotlights are mini lessons designed for use as one time workshops in settings such as social services offices and food pantries. Lesson topics include the Importance of Breakfast, MyPlate & Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Making Better Beverage Choices.

  Language(s): English
  Delivery Method: Single session or series
  Number of Lessons: 3
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 20 minutes

• Plan, Shop, Save & Cook

• Plan, Shop, Save and Cook is an interactive curriculum that promotes MyPlate messaging to limited resource families. Lessons cover meal planning to include the MyPlate food groups, how to shop with a grocery list and use unit pricing to get the most for your food dollars. Food safety and preparing a healthy, low-cost recipe are also covered.

  Language(s): English, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese
  Delivery Method: Series
  Number of Lessons: 4
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 60 minutes
  Virtual Delivery Materials located in Google Drive.

• UCCE Connects to You!

• UCCE Connects to You! offers an alternative means of providing nutrition education. Materials are updated to reflect the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPlate.

  Language(s): English, Spanish
  Delivery Method: Series
  Number of Lessons: 10
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 20+ minutes
  Virtual Delivery Materials located in Google Drive.

• Walk With Ease

• Walk with Ease is a community-based physical activity and self-management education program which includes health education, stretching and strengthening exercises, and motivational strategies. It can be done by individuals using Walk with Ease workbook on their own, or by groups led by trained leaders. Group sessions include socialization time, pre-walk informational mini lectures, warmups and cool downs, and a 10–35-minute walking period. This is a physical activity curriculum that should be implemented in addition to a nutrition component or a food tasting.

  Please reach out to Paul Tabarez for more information on training and approval for use of this curriculum.

  Language(s): English, Spanish
  Delivery Method: Single session or series
  Number of Lessons: Structured 6-week multi-component program (3 times a week)
  Suggested Timeframe for Each Lesson: 60 minutes