Food safety, expiration dates & processing codes

Food safety, expiration dates & processing codes

How do I know if my milk is expired? Should I throw out the can of fruit from my pantry that’s dated a month ago? Is my meat expired? How am I supposed to wash my groceries? These are all common questions I’ve heard from friends concerned about their food during a global pandemic.

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Fighting hunger with dignity: Episode 37

How can you support people who are food insecure with dignity?  Our guest, Community Network Dietitian Nicole Weeks, share how her organization uses the My Plate Model in choice food pantries. Nicole shares ways to help by, “Shopping with your wallet and having a voice, as well.”

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How can farmers & dietitians help with food insecurity? Episode 32

Did you know that nutrition programs are the majority of the farm bill? It’s one of the many ways agriculture and nutrition go hand-in-hand.  That’s why the Food Bullying podcast is celebrating National Nutrition Month and National Agriculture Month with a joint release with the Sound Bites podcast.

Melissa Joy Dobbins, RDN, is the host of the Sound Bites podcast and she loves learning from farmers! She talks with Michele & Eliz about opportunities for agriculture and nutrition to work more closely together to address hunger.  

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Where food grows, bugs go: Episode 31

Wine. Tomatoes. Green beans. Tofu. What may sound like a menu is actually what one farm grows. Jennie Schmidt shares how she produces so many crops, why her farm transitioned from organic to conventional to be more sustainable, and what food bullying terms like factory farming mean to her family farm.

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