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Learn basic cooking techniques and get inspired to cook a variety of new and tasty meals for your family. 

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Food Preparation Publications

FOCUS ON FRUITS & VEGETABLES: Try Adding Some Fruits and Vegetables to Your Grilling Menu

Summer is a great way to enjoy the outdoors and have healthful, flavorful meals. Fruits and vegetables add color, texture, flavor and nutrition without adding many calories.

FOCUS ON WHOLE FRUITS: Add Some Fruit to Your Diet

Many people do not meet the current daily recommendations for fruits (or vegetables). On average, adults need at least 1½ cups of fruit per day.

FOCUS ON WHOLE FRUITS: Why Eat Fruit?

Fruit is nutritious, colorful and flavorful. Most fruits are naturally low in fat, sodium and calories. Fruit provides many essential nutrients that often are underconsumed, including vitamins C and A and folate, as well as potassium and…

FOCUS ON WHOLE FRUITS: How to Select and Store Fruit

Enjoy fruit at its best with these tips.

FOCUS ON WHOLE FRUITS: Serve More Fruit

Fruit is naturally sweet and provides a source of natural sugar to your diet. Keep bowls of strawberries, grapes, or melon in your refrigerator to they are ready to grab when you are craving a snack

Food Freezing Basics: Methods of Wrapping

Proper packaging helps keep food from drying out preserves nutritive value, flavor, texture and color.

Food Freezing Basics: Packaging, Loading the Freezer and Refreezing

Freezing is one of the easiest, quickest, most versatile and most convenient methods of preserving foods. Properly frozen foods maintain more of their original color, flavor and texture and generally more of their nutrients than foods…

Food Pantry Wish List

Use these ideas to help you choose healthful foods to donate to food pantries.

Food Preservation: Drying Vegetables

Drying is a long-standing, fairly easy method of food preservation. Whenever you preserve foods, choose the best-quality fruits and vegetables. As with other food preservation methods, drying does not improve food quality. Proper and…

Food Preservation: Jellies, Jams and Spreads

Sweet spreads are foods with many textures, flavors and colors. They are thickened or jellied to varying degrees. The traditional jellies and jams are preserved primarily by sugar.
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