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Find healthy new dishes your family will love on our "Recipes" page.

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A small group nutrition class .

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Children often will eat new foods that they help you to prepare!

Use your favorite seasonal fruits for Fresh Fruit with Warm Honey Yogurt Topping from Cooking Matters.

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"Fresh Fruit with Honey Yogurt Topping", from Cooking Matters.

various food products with expiration dates

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Learn about food container expiration dates on our Food Safety pages.

Food & Nutrition

Welcome to our Food and Nutrition pages! Cornell Cooperative Extension offers free or low-cost educational workshops, applied research projects, and lots of useful information on food-related topics from food safety and nutrition to healthy eating on a limited budget. Explore our links, check out our upcoming events, then give us a call or visit our Education Center to learn more.

A food pantry staff member helps a client with his selections.

Food Resources

Find food pantries, community meals, and programs like SNAP-Ed New York, WIC and Free/Reduced School Meals that can help feed your family.

Choose MyPlate

MyPlate is the new USDA food guide tool to help people make wise food choices within food and calorie limits. Use their SuperTracker free online tool to track your food and activities.

Nutrition Program Educator Myra McKinney (center) leads a hands-on cooking class at CCE-Tompkins (2007)

Cooking & Nutrition Classes

Cooperative Extension offers several different free cooking and nutrition workshops for families, youth and seniors who have limited incomes and who live in Tompkins County.