SPOKANE, Wash. — Cooking healthy and tasty meals for yourself and your family can be difficult, especially if you’re on a budget.
2nd Harvest, a nonprofit in Spokane that fights hunger across the Inland Northwest, is hosting a cooking class to help people learn how to make nutritious and delicious meals while making their ingredients last.
“Italian food, different types of soups, bowls, you name it, we have learned how to make it,” said Kaycee Klingaman, one of the students in the 2nd Harvest cooking class.
The class focuses on how to use common ingredients and work around food, like chicken or beef, that might be hard to come by at a food bank or too expensive at the grocery store.
“What we’re trying to do is teach people how to make that food stretch and get a little bit more creative,” said Maeve Sutula, cooking team member.
The class often uses inexpensive ingredients like beans or lentils and teaches how to use almost any part of a vegetable.
“Learning how to utilize your leftover vegetable pieces for broth, finding cheaper, budget-friendly ways to make different food. They teach you all of that along with being healthy,” said Klingaman.
While the meal is cooking, students learn the nutritional benefits of different diets.
Klingaman has diabetes and said the class has been helpful on her health journey.
“There are food that have more nutritional benefits than others and learning how to incorporate those in your diet, and what benefits those have for you and your body, that’s amazing,” she said.
At the end of the class, everyone sits down together and enjoys the meal they made. Each student leaves with a recipe card for the meal.
For more information on the classes, including recipes, visit 2-harvest.org.
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