Good Nutrition A Family Tradition

We were very happy to be written about in the Samoa News!  A special thanks to reporter Jeff Hayner for sharing the details of one of our past nutrition fairs.

Koreti Feliuai (pictured with her son) is the proud winner of one of two Origin Energy two burner gas stoves given away at last Saturday’s Nutrition Fair at the Utulei Beach Park. The fair was put on by the Women’s Community Action Program (W-CAP), in collaboration with the WIC program.

"Make good nutrition a family tradition" - Women's Community Action Program joins WIC for Nutrition Fair

by Jeff Hayner
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Making nutrition a family affair is what the Women's Community Action Program (W-CAP), in collaboration with the Women Infants & Children (WIC) program, hoped to accomplish at their Nutrition Fair at Utulei Beach Park on Saturday.

According to Mrs. Ali Pili of the W-CAP program, the Nutrition Fair was conceived to help families develop new habits, thus the theme, ‘Make good nutrition, a family tradition.'

"We are trying to show families new, nutritious ways to eat, and to learn good healthy habits. We are having free food samples, and a food demonstration by Chef Sualua Tupolo who is the executive chef for the school lunch program. We will also be having children's nutrition activities and games for prizes, and a drawing for an Origin two burner gas stove, along with a drawing for a baby quilt," said Pili.

As the DJ blasted out music, he encouraged everyone to get up and dance, with the winners receiving free pizza from Pizza Hut, and wheat bread from Pritchard's Bakery.

Pizza Hut passed out slices of pizza, and Origin gas had a cooking demonstration with chef Sualua, showing everyone how to make a healthy stir fry chicken, to the delight of the crowd who received samples of the dish. Chef Sualua stressed to everyone to make sure to wash your hands before and after cooking, and to make sure to eat a lot of ‘Fiber' because fiber is what takes all of the garbage out of the body.

There was plenty of water to drink, as Vaimalu Pure Water was on hand to make sure no one was dehydrated, by having water tanks set up for everyone to keep cool.

Land Grant had a booth passing out free plants, while Sea Grant was making sure everyone knows about the nutritional value of fish.

There were puppet shows, and games for the kids for prizes, and excellent entertainment from the DJ on hand.

The Pediatrics Unit of LBJ hospital was also on hand, to pass information on baby care.

At the end of the day, everyone left with a little more education on nutrition and health.

The local organizations, community service providers, and vendors who were involved in this Nutrition Fair are listed below:
Sea Grant
ASCC (NCR) Land Grant
McDonald's
Pizza Hut
Origin Gas
GHC Reid
EFNEP (Nutrition)
Feleti Barstow Library
Pediatrics Unit of the LBJ Hospital
Pritchards Bakery
Sodexo American Samoa