National Nutrition Month Campaign
Cornell Wellness Celebrates National Nutrition Month®
Join Wellness throughout the month of March as we celebrate the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ National Nutrition Month® with you. This year’s theme is “personalize your plate.” Throughout the month of March, Wellness will be providing opportunities for you to optimize your health through nutrition by learning how to vary your diet, meal planning and cooking, as well as the importance of speaking with a nutrition professional. We will be offering everything from a live cook-along cooking demo, a community chat, videos, and a whole bunch more for you to learn how you can healthfully personalize your plate.
Week 1: Meal Planning
- Meatless Monday with Keri Johnson
- Do you want to learn some fast and easy tricks to incorporate Meatless Mondays into your life? Get started with this short video!
- Do you want to know what a plant-based plate of food should look like? Check out these resources, along with an awesome recipe for black bean chili.
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Feeling inspired and looking for more meatless Monday recipes?! Check out Sonja and Alex Overhiser, the recipe developers and cookbook authors behind this website and food blog
- Meal Planning & Prepping video with Hannah Feinberg, RDN
- Let Cornell Dining do all of the meal planning and prepping for you. Eat at one of their many Ithaca-campus locations or grab and go. Find out where employees working on campus can eat and how Cornell Dining supports a healthier you through Menus Of Change.
Week 2: Cooking & Prepping
- Meatless Monday with Keri Johnson
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for NICE CREAM! With warmer months just around the corner, let's start thinking about our favorite frozen treats. NICE CREAM is a healthy and simple way to bring whole fruits into your diet, you can eat it for breakfast, a snack, or dessert. Check out this video or article about how to make different flavors of this diary free alternative to ice cream.
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TOP SECRET INFORMATION: My all-time favorite blogger is the Minimalist Baker. Her philosophy is: 10 ingredients or less, 1 bowl, or 30 minute or less to prepare. Check out all of her amazing vegan recipes.
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- #HealthyEating Virtual Cook Along with Erin Harner, RDN
- Wednesday March 10, from 12-1pm via Zoom Live
- Watch recording here
- In this interactive cooking demo, Erin Harner, Cornell Wellness' RDN, invites you to cook along with her in your own kitchen as she cooks in hers. Together (virtually) we’ll make 3 simple recipes and discuss strategies for bringing the fresh flavors of springtime into your meals. All are welcome. No Wellness Recreation Membership required to attend. The cooking demo will be recorded and sent to registered participants. Contact Erin at eah267@cornell.edu with any questions.
- Sprouting in Your Kitchen Video
Week 3: Varying Your Diet
- Meatless Monday with Keri Johnson
- Take a trip to the grocery store where Doctor Tom Campbell, from The Center for Nutritional Studies, shows you how to shop for the healthiest foods, what's best for a budget, and how to stick to a whole food plant-based diet.
- Read this beginner's guide to a whole foods plant-based diet from HealthLine to get all the important information about going meatless.
- Hydration Conversation with Jeremy Stewart and Kerry Howell
- Diversify Your Diet video with Erin Harner
- How to Read Nutrition Label Video with Jeremy Stewart
Week 4: Speak with a Nutrition Professional
- Meatless Monday with Keri Johnson
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Where do you get your protein and more herbivore insight. Watch this informative video, and learn all you need to know about going plant based with Wellness & Fitness Specialist Keri Johnson
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Check out this article on the best sources of proteins for vegans & vegetarians
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A few of Keri's favorite whole foods plant-based resources:
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- Community Wellness Chat: Personalizing Your Plate
- Provided live through Zoom
- Wednesday, March 24, from 12pm-1pm EST
- Register here
- Join Wellness staff, Erin Harner and Jeremy Stewart, for the last week of National Nutrition Month® as they discuss what it means to personalize your plate. We all have different bodies and different goals. In this chat, Erin and Jeremy will share some helpful strategies to optimize your diet so you can maximize your potential. Also, there will be opportunities throughout the chat to get your nutrition questions answered.