Cornell Cooperative Extension

Sullivan County
This photograph depicts a woman shopping at a mobile produce market, making healthy food choices from an array of fresh fruits and vegetables.
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ESNY classes can help you put more vegetables and fruits in your diet.

Small group nutrition class
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A small group nutrition class

Corn and green chili salad, photo from the California Nutrition Network Recipe Images, posted on the USDA images website

Learn to make healthy meals your family will love in ESNY classes.

A woman and her daughter read and share a snack together.
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A woman and her daughter read and share a healthy snack together.

Two women at a supermarket discuss a milk label
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Learn to read and understand food nutrition labels in an ESNY class.

SNAP-Ed NY

SNAP-Ed NY helps people with limited incomes learn how to eat better for less money.

Join us for a FREE one-time workshop-- or a few classes -- that will help you learn to fill your grocery cart and dinner table with healthy and inexpensive foods. Our nutrition educators will meet with you one-on-one or in a group-- in your home or at another place in the community -- to help you learn about cooking, meal planning, healthy food shopping on a budget, nutrition, food safety, weight control and physical activity, breastfeeding and much more.

You’ll learn:

  • to prepare easy, good-tasting, low-cost meals in minutes.
  • to spend less time at the grocery store and buy healthier food with your money and SNAP benefits.
  • to make healthy meals and snacks that children will love
  • to plan meals, prepare and store food safely, and use less salt, sugar, and fat when you cook.
  • to read and understand food labels.
  • to make healthy lifestyle changes part of every day.

Our classes are FREE and the only cost to you is your time. Classes meet at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center and other public places in the community like food pantries and senior centers. Call us to find a class near you!

Our SNAP-Ed program, funded by USDA SNAP Nutrition Education, is part of the Cornell Cooperative Extension system Eat Smart New York program which offers nutrition education through CCE county associations across New York State.

Last updated February 14, 2023

Food & Nutrition

Can I Take Classes?

You can sign up for our FREE SNAP-Ed classes if you now receive (or are eligible to receive) food assistance through:

SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as Food Stamps)

WIC (Women, Infant & Children’s Supplemental Food Assistance Program)

MEDICAID or TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)

FREE OR REDUCED PRICE SCHOOL MEALS: for students -- or families of students -- who go to a school where more than 50% of the students receive Free or Reduced Price School Meals.

We also serve county residents who participate in (or are eligible for) HEAD START, or who receive SSI or AFDC.

Get SNAP!

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program / SNAP logoAre you eligible for SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)? Find out if you can receive SNAP benefits and apply online at MyBenefits.NY.gov.

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