Cocinas Sanas / Healthy Kitchens

The purpose of the Cocinas Sanas / Healthy Kitchen Project is to promote good nutrition through healthy eating habits among Latino farm worker families and throughout the Latino community. This involves promoting the use of high quality, organic foods as well as providing basic information on the connection between nutrition, exercise and health. Our goal for this project is to train Farm Worker and Latina homemakers in the use of non-traditional foods in their culturally traditional kitchens while extending their knowledge of the basic principles of nutrition and health and introducing exercise as a key element in a healthy life style. 

The Cocinas Sanas Nutrition Program works with farm worker and Latina women and their children in Whatcom County. Our program:

• Addresses the relationship between the food we eat and diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, as well as obesity and digestive problems.
• Familiarizes the women who are the family cooks with local healthy food outlets and how to access them
• Engages the women and their children in a process to change the way they eat and prepare their daily meals
• Identifies and recruits two promotoras for an ongoing Cocinas Sanas program
• Develops curriculum and materials for an ongoing Cocinas Sanas Program and for adaptation of this program in other regions
• Works on creating a cookbook of participants favorite recipes and Cocina Sana wisdom on a healthy life style that can be referred to in future programs
• Builds pride and self confidence in participants own cuisine and an appreciation for locally grown foods as well as the majority community becoming familiar and appreciating the immigrant community.

Day Care and transportation are provided as needed for the program activities.

Cocinas Sanas Workshops | Cooking Sessions

(Supported by Washington Health Foundation)