Numerous nonprofit and government orgranizations provide free guidance, resources, recipes and even mobile phone apps to assist with a healthy lifestyle.
Free Online Resources
In it's Healthy Living section, the association provides information on nutrition, fitness, weight loss, mental health and resources for caregivers and loved ones.
American Heart Association: Add Color
The association offers this brilliant guide on adding fruits and vegetables to your daily diet.
American Heart Association: The Sugary Six
Learn the top six sources of sugar in the typical American diet.
American Heart Association: The Salty Six
Learn the top six sources of salt in the typical diet. You might be surprised.
American Heart Association: Making the Most of the Nutrition Facts Label
The Nutrition Facts label can help you make healthier choices. Find out what those numbers mean.
This organization's programs teach parents and caregivers with limited food budgets to shop for and cook healthy meals. Find recipes, diet tips, cooking videos and more.
Hunger and Health Feeding America: Recipes
An online cookbook of recipes using low-cost ingredients that meet the MyPlate food groups guidelines.
Created by the Center for Disease Control, this simple test, which is also offered in Spanish, can indicate if you are currently at risk for prediabetes.
This free app for Apple users was created by faculty from the University of Southern California to aid food bank clients in tracking their food choices.
This free app for Android users was created by faculty from the University of Southern California to aid food bank clients in tracking their food choices.
Resources for Food Pantry Organizers and Volunteers
Cooking Matters Educational Tools
Share Our Strength offers free educational tools for public use that build on proven successful methods to encourage healthy eating.
Cooking Matters in Your Food Pantry
This toolkit is designed to be a comprehensive instruction guide to encourage healthy food choices within a food pantry or food-bank setting.
Hunger and Health Feeding America: Food to Encourage
This material is designed to assist food pantries in their efforts to provide healthy options.
Hunger and Health Feeding America: Nutrition in Food Banking Toolkit
This organization created The Nutrition in Food Banking Toolkit to help the charitable food sector better understand and meet nutrition needs of our neighbors experiencing food insecurity.