Find Iowa Grown Products
- Enjoy Iowa grown apples, pumpkins, and more.
You Make the Food Choices for Health
- Find health and nutrition information for making food choices.
- Get involved in health-promoting activities in your community.
- Look here for games and activities.
- Check out our store for publications to buy or download.
- Eat your breakfast; even last night's pizza is better than no breakfast.
Get Tips and Recipes on Food for Fitness and Fun
Food Safety Tips (for Fair Exhibits, Emergencies, and Everyday)
Get Food Preparation and Safety Answers at AnswerLine
Know how to avoid the most common foodborne pathogens
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Know Where Your Food Comes From
Know the distance it travels, the energy used to produce, process, transport, market and store it. See:
-- Iowa food coalition
-- farm to food-service studies and research
-- Iowa Network for Community Agriculture (INCA), publications
-- Iowa State's Marketing and Food Systems Initiative
Check out various Web sites offered by 4-H nationally.
Complete your 4-H Recordkeeping Forms.
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Combat Hunger
People go hungry in many Iowa communities every day.
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