It's Food Check-Out Week
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Published: Feb 23, 2010
This week through Saturday is Food Check-Out Week. Farmer and rancher members of many local Farm Bureaus will reach out to consumers in their communities with information and cost-saving tips on putting nutritious meals on the table. Stretching Your Grocery Dollar With Healthy, Nutritious Food is the official theme. It reflects the fact that Americans from all walks of life continue to experience an economic squeeze. Therefore, they are dining out less often and preparing more meals at home.
Terry Gilbert, a Kentucky farmer and chair of the American Farm Bureau Women's Leadership Committee, says they are focusing on providing consumers with information on stretching their grocery dollars with healthy, nutritious food. Tips for better nutrition on a stretched budget, making sense of food labels and understanding USDA's MyPyramid are among the topics Farm Bureau members will be talking about with consumers, at supermarket demonstration stations and other venues.
For more than a decade Food Check-Out Week has benefited Ronald McDonald House Charities. Since the program was initiated, Farm Bureau members have donated around $3 million in food and monetary contributions to Ronald McDonald Houses and other worthwhile charities during Food Check-Out Week.
The United Soybean Board is teaming up with the AFBF for a special Food Check-Out Week Facebook page. For every person who becomes a fan of the page, AFBF will donate $1 to Ronald McDonald House Charities. The page can be found at www.facebook.com/NationalFoodCheckoutWeek.
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