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Plan. Eat. Move. for good health! · Talking FACS

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  Welcome to talking facts what you need to know about family food finance and fitness.
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  This nationally recognized award winning podcast is hosted by the University of Kentucky Family and consumer sciences extension program.
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  Our educators share research knowledge with individuals,
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  families and communities to improve quality of life.
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  Hello and welcome to talking facts what you need to know about family food finance and fitness.
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  I am your host,
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  Mindy McCulley,
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  family and consumer sciences extension specialist for instructional support at the University of Kentucky today.
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  My guest is LaToya Drake,
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  the marketing and media program coordinator with our Kentucky nutrition education program.
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  Welcome LaToya,
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  Hey Mindy,
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  I'm excited to have you here.
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  First of all,
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  you're a new voice to the podcast.
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  So we always love when we have new voices on.
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  But also we're gonna talk about an initiative that you all started about three years ago which a lot of people might not have heard about.
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  And that is the Plan Eat Move website.
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  So talk to me what exactly,
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  where is it?
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  How can we find it?
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  And what are people gonna be able to do on that website?
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  So,
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  but planning Move website is our public interfacing website and you're gonna find that at plan eat move dot com.
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  So go there for a lot of information,
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  including free resources,
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  gardening tips of farmers market and food bank locator recipes galore and food demonstration videos.
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  Oh,
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  that's exciting.
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  And the fact that it is a dot com site might throw people off because most of our sites are educational sites but that just makes it more accessible to the public.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  And we feature a lot of additional partners and resources on the site to I know that many of our counties work closely with feeding America and getting folks fed.
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  And that information is on the site through or find a food bank locator.
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  You can also find farmers markets in your in your area on the website.
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  And I will mention that we will link the website in the show notes so that people can go directly to that site from our podcast.
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  What are some of the benefits that you have seen from this public facing website?
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  What benefit is we do a lot of food demonstrations and cooking classes and just we cook in public a lot.
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  And this is just a great way for folks to find the recipe easily that's accessible and you can see it.
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  And there's even picture recipes for many of them as well as video recipes.
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  So I think that's the biggest advantage when people see a recipe demonstrated out in the community,
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  sometimes you forget to pick up that that recipe card or whatever.
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  So having access to this website is a great way to continue the conversation beyond that free demonstration.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  So are you um I know that we have lots of program assistance our our food and nutrition assistance across the state.
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  Are they contributing them to this website as well?
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  I have some like one of the main things in my job is helping organize the website and curate the website and I have some ideas about getting assistance involved through the blog.
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  But those haven't happened yet.
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  This is mainly a state level effort to be used as a resources for those assistance and families and whoever.
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  Alright.
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  So that it's wonderful that not only do our public facing clientele are able to access the information that's provided on the website,
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  but then also our employees also can access that information.
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  It makes it just come to seamless transition room for for both groups.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  There's a lot of video demonstrations of recipes and those are great things to use in programming.
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  And I know many of our assistants use those and their programs when they can't cook,
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  especially during the covid times when we weren't able to do those kind of things,
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  they would use the video so folks could see still see what the recipe looked like.
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  And that's a great way to make sure that everybody is seeing the same information together.
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  You know,
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  they're seeing it all at the same time.
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  That's a wonderful resource that you all have available.
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  Have you been able to extend your reach using this this website beyond those local county groups definitely extended reached across the state because this website is used as content on our social media platforms like instagram and facebook.
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  So it's great to just have we have an abundance of resources in any P and and extension as well.
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  And we don't often use those resources as well as because so this is a great resource to use to continue to expand your programming through other media outlets And we encourage people if you're listening and you just discover to plan eat move to share that with your friends too because this is something that's a benefit to all families.
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  The free resource.
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  And I love that.
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  We also educate about food safety on the site.
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  So that's something that you know,
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  folks need to know about to avoid getting their families sick.
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  Exactly.
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  You know,
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  food safety is important step in the in the food preparation process.
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  If you don't follow those guidelines,
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  then you definitely can get your family sick and it's not a fun sickness to deal with not one sickness to deal with.
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  Yes.
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  Well LaToya,
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  I really appreciate the time that you have taken to share with us today about the planning move website.
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  Are there other things about the nutrition education program that you would like to highlight for us before you wrap up?
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  Yeah,
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  the nutrition education program uh programs for that classes are in all 120 counties to reach out to your county extension office and inquire about program assistance for staff Ed.
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  And also inquired about the services and classes that agents might be doing related to planning ahead and even better for less.
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  Well thank you so much for your time today.
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  Thank you.
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  Happy to be here and we hope you'll come back and we'll talk some more about the nutrition education program and all that you all have to share.
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  Definitely.
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