At the YWCA, our Healthy Meals are prepared by our Kitchen. They compose breakfast, lunch, and snacks for the children in our Early Learning Program. The menus help the children in our center become more comfortable trying new foods while getting quality nutrition every day.

When in season, our children participate in Farmer’s Market Friday, where they get to taste test a new fresh fruit or vegetable each week – sometimes straight out of our garden! Most every Friday you can find our Nutrition Coordinator, Melinda Aponte, in our classrooms passing out samples of produce and talking with the kids about how and where the plants grow, what part of the plants we eat, or how the food tastes, smells, or feels. The children get to sample foods they may never have had before in a positive environment that encourages trying new foods.

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