Living with diabetes can create challenges in knowing how to change your cooking habits. University of Illinois Extension has a new website that gives you recipes on main dishes, side dishes and desserts. You can find this very useful site by clicking on http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/diabetesrecipes Add this site to your favorite bookmarks!
Questions? Contact Margaret Larson, County Extension Director at
mklarson@uiuc.edu
Featured Websites
Additional Websites
Sports & Nutrition: The Winning Connection Written and designed for today's young athlete, these easy-to-use nutrition guides work well in classrooms and after-school programs.
Strawberries & More Your guide to growing strawberries, u-pick strawberry farms, strawberry nutrition, and selection & care.
Watch Your Garden Grow Your guide to choosing, growing, preparing and storing common vegetables.
Local Programs
Local Foods Initiative
The mission of the Northwest Illinois Local Foods Task Force is to enhance consumer awareness of and producer capabilities for expanding the local foods system.
For more information about these programs, please contact:
Barbara Curry
Food and Nutrition Program Coordinator
Stephenson County Unit
Highland Community College Building R
2998 W Pearl City Rd
Freeport, IL 61032
Phone: 815-235-4125
FAX: 815-232-9006 bacurry@uiuc.edu