12-week program

Detroit Friendship House partners with Gleaners Community Food Bank once a year to host their groundbreaking nutrition-education program at our site. The 12-week program is designed to connect low-income individuals and families with food by teaching them how to prepare cost effective meals that are still healthy and delicious. Professional chefs work together with nutritionists to volunteer their time and expertise to lead the hands-on courses. By taking a recipe and preparing it with the attendees they show adults, teens, and kids how to prepare nutritious food in safe and tasty ways. The 12 weeks culminates with a field trip to the grocery store to learn how to shop for the most nutritious foods and the lowest cost.

One time classes

Our one time classes are designed with parents and caretakers in mind. Whether parents are struggling with a picky eater, healthy snack alternatives or budeting, this one time class gives participants a tailored hands on cooking expereince while solving meal time struggles with little ones. We schedule these classes during the weekday, during school hours to allow for maximum participation for parents and caregivers.

Cooking Matters Participants recieve nutrition education handouts and recipes to reinforce what they learned.Cooking Matters recognizes that participants are the decision makers in thier household when it comes to healthy eating, recipes are most often culturally relavant and inclusive to the community.

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If your family participates in SNAP-ED benefits you are elegible to participate in our classes. Our classes have Bangla and Arabic translators making learning more accessable.

For 30 years, Cooking Matters was a program run by Share Our Strength, a nonprofit working to solve problems of hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. Detroit Friendship House is a proud partner of Cooking Matters.

Past Events

The Family Kitchen- Recipes, tips, and tools for parents and caretakers of young picky eaters. The easiest way to get picky eaters to try a new food, is to offer them, often, in small quantities. Learn tips like this and more! sign up to join our future classes.

Hack Your Snack - Recipes, tips, and tools for partents and caretakers wanting to provide healthy snack alternatives to processed and high sugar snacks.

Kids Say Yes to Fruits and Veggies- Recipes, tips, and tools for parents and caretakers to get kids involved in the kitchen, eating more veggies. Our class instructor Jake taught participants easy ways to sneak tofu into smoothies and the class loved it! We went from saying yuck to yum!