BROWNING — The Blackfeet Tribe's "Food Access & Sustainability Team" (FAST) continues to educate families about health and nutrition by hosting a cooking class and sharing a few recipes that include items available right here on the reservation.
The program hosts classes that cover basic nutrition, shopping for healthy foods, and traditional foods. This program is led by Mackenzie Sachs, FAST Blackfeet’s Registered Dietitian, and Keshawna Yazzie-Wolftail, a Nutrition Education Specialist.
Classes are taught monthly to the public, and all ingredients are provided for each class. Mackenzie and Keshawna also conduct food demonstrations in the O’yo’p Food Pantry, Traditional cooking classes, Nutrition Tip of the Week, and Recipe of the Week.
"Within the Nutrition Education Section, we have our classes that we teach as well as recipes that we put out every week into our pantry," Yazzie-Wolftail explained. "A lot of the recipes are going to be with foods that are traditional to the Blackfeet diet. It's also more affordable pantry staple recipes that we have with pantry staples that we have in our own pantry. So those that do get food through the 0pantry have a recipe to go home to and try."
She continued, "Every time I meet new people in these classes or every time like we have something that we do that's new, it always brings back that reminder of like what we're doing and how big our mission is and how important it is. I feel really good about it.
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