This is a proposal to start a cooking club that teaches healthy eating and the cooking of healthy recipes to its particitpants. The club would meet weekly and be assigned a new healthy recipe each meeting. During the duration, each member would attempt to make the recipe, bringing it home to their family(or just home with them)to enjoy at the end of the meeting. Upon disclosure of the recipe, its nutritional value and its place in the daily diet would be discussed as well as its culinary attributes. The members would do their cooking all in the same room with apptly equiped facilities.

I would like to start a monthly day camp type event where kids can sign up to come and cook real recipes that are healthy and taste good. I want it be something affordable for the kids in my community, where low-income families are buying cheap junk food instead of making healthy choices at home. My church has a commercial-style kitchen and many talented cooks that I hope will volunteer their time to help tweens and teens make healthier choices, and give them the skills to make those choices.