The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program promotes good nutrition and physical activity as a means of maintaining a healthy lifestyle free of chronic disease. Our goal is to help adults and their families establish & maintain healthy eating habits & physically active lifestyles.
Participants learn to:
- Plan nutritious meals
- Increase physical activity
- Stretch their food budget
- Practice safe food handling
- Prevent obesity through healthy lifestyles
Adult EFNEP is administered by the University of California Cooperative Extension using Eating Smart • Being Active, a curriculum for adults developed jointly by Colorado State University and the University of California. It is a research-based curriculum based on the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines, designed for nutrition educators to assist limited-resource families with young children to make healthy lifestyle choices.
In 2024, the EFNEP Program in Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sutter and Yuba Counties graduated 230 participants from the Eating Smart Being Active Lesson Series.
- 79% had a positive change in Food Security
- For example, having enough money to get food for your family
- 100% had improvement in one or for Food Resource Management practices and positive change in Diet Quality
- For example, cooking dinner at home, comparing food prices, making a list before grocery shopping, and drinking fewer sugar sweetened beverages.
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If you would like to learn more about how to participate in the Community Nutrition and Health programs offered through the University of California Cooperative Extension in Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sutter and Yuba Counties, please contact
Veronica VanCleave Hunt, Community Nutrition, Health, and Food Security Advisor
(530) 447-0801 ex 1692