FSM 353: It’s National Food Safety Month – Cook with Your Kids

Transcript [music] Welcome to Food Safety in a Minute. I’m Susie Craig. September is National Food Safety Month! It’s never too early to be a positive food safety role model for your children and grandchildren. Cooking together is a wonderful way to build skills and memories—especially when recipes highlight safe food handling. Here’s a resource with recipes that incorporate food safety practices. The Partnership for Food Safety Education offers free kid-friendly recipes, coloring pages, and games online. Search The Healthy Lunch – A Cookbook for Young Cooks. Kids and teens created this free cookbook with 14 delicious recipes, healthy ingredients, and nutrition labels. Recipes include food safety practices: Handwashing, cooking temperatures, avoiding cross-contamination, and safe produce handling. Forty-eight pages of fun and food safety! From Washington State University Extension, thanks for listening. [music] Resources Partnership for Food Safety Education. The Healthy Lunch: A Cookbook for Young Cooks. https://fightbac.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/THE-HEALTHY-LUNCH-PDF-FINAL.pdf. Accessed online 8/11/25. Utter, Jennifer, N. Larson, M. Laska, M. Winkler, and D. Meumark-Sztainer. Self-Perceived Cooking Skills in Emerging Adulthood Predict Better Dietary Behaviors and Intake 10 Years Later: A Longitudinal Study. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Volume 50, Issue 5, p 494-500. May 2018. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6086120/. Accessed online 8/11/25.