The Fruit and Veggie Quantity Cookbook - Revised Edition (Get It Here!) was launched this week by the New Hampshire Obesity Prevention Program (OPP), Division of Pubic Health Services, Department of Health and Human Services. The OPP partnered with New Hampshire Hospital Food and Nutrition Services to test all 31 recipes.

Each recipe serves 25, 50, or 100 and is designed for use in schools, child care settings, camps, hospitals, work site cafeterias, college cafeterias,congregate meal sites, and restaurants. All the recipes comply with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

The recipes can easily be used with National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). The quantity recipes:
Use USDA recipe format
Identify USDA commodity fruits, vegetables, and beans
Identify USDA Child Nutrition Program Food Components

Family-size versions of the recipes are ready to copy and share. Taste-test survey forms are also included.

Tasty healthy recipes are one way to bring healthy foods into schools, child care settings, worksites, hospitals, municipalities, and your home. Research shows that when healthy food is tasty, available, and affordable people are more likely to eat better.

The OPP is part of a consortium of organizations implementing the New Hampshire Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) plan. For more information about the OPP contact us at 603.271.4551 or visit the program website at http://www.dhhs.nh.gov/dphs/nhp/obesity.htm.