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Cultural Nutrition

Fueling Children’s Healthy Growth, Learning, and Play

Team Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support the child nutrition programs through training and technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity. Nebraska has been awarded the 2023 Team Nutrition Grant Supporting Nutrition Education for School- Aged Children. As part of this grant, NDE aims to improve access by increasing the number of students and families from underserved communities who are reached by nutrition education resources. Resources and recipes will be culturally appropriate for Nebraska communities and in the preferred languages of students and their families.

Recognizing Nebraska’s diverse rural and urban communities, NDE will honor and respect the unique cultures and values of each community by:

  1. Working with a translations services agency to translate educational materials curated as a part of grant objectives into the top non-English languages spoken in Nebraska schools.  
  2. Conducting formative research to inform the development of culturally appropriate nutrition education materials for Nebraska communities for addition to the curated portfolio. 
  3. Together with school nutrition services, collaborate with students, families, and the community to develop and implement recipes that align with various culinary traditions while meeting meal pattern requirements. 
  4. Offer school nutrition trainings and resources for school coaches, teachers, afterschool program coordinators, and other applicable stakeholders. 

Harvest of the Month (HOM) Home Recipes – Authentic Afghan Recipes

NDE would like to recognize and thank the following individuals and groups for their invaluable contributions to this project, which included providing essential project guidance, identifying and testing recipes, producing recipe demonstration videos, and handling translation and editing tasks.

  • Zahraa Rida – Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County & participants of the UNL Nutrition Education Program
  • Nilofar Saidi – Asian Community & Cultural Center for Refugees
  • Melissa Fuller – Coordinator, LNKTV Health
  • Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln
  • Nilofar Saidi & daughter, Frohar
  • Samira Mahboub & daughter, Sura
  • Suraya Mahboub
Updated April 23, 2025 12:53pm