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Food Security

What is SNAP-Ed?

SNAP-Ed, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education, is federally funded and is conducted in every state and U.S. territory.  In Georgia, SNAP-Ed is conducted through UGA Extension and is also affiliated with UGA's College of Family & Consumer Sciences.

For decades, SNAP-Ed has been helping families with children learn how to eat healthier meals and snacks, stretch their food dollars and reduces the risk of food-borne illness.   

Faced with the challenges of paying rent, utilities, day care, and other family expenses, families experience the stress of trying to provide a variety of nutritious foods and maintain healthy diets on limited budgets.  SNAP-Ed, through our Food Talk class, provides a variety of tools and ideas to help families cut food costs and provide healthy meals and snacks for family members.  Adults enrolled in Food Talk learn how to:

  • Plan low cost nutritious meals
  • Prepare quick and healthy meals and snacks
  • Shop for the best food buys
  • Keep foods safe to eat
  • Eat right and light to control sugar, salt, fat, and calories