Keep the Beat^™: Deliciously Healthy Eating Event Highlights

Senior undergraduate Nutrition and Dietetic students from Northern Illinois University (NIU) tested and sampled recipes from the Keep the Beat™ Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Family Meals cookbook as part of their Applied Nutrition class in Spring 2010. In Spring 2011, they used the cookbook as part of a cooking class with NIU employees in the Facilities and Finance division. All enjoyed the recipes!

Registered Dietitians sample two new Keep the Beat™ Recipes, Wiki (Fast) Rice and Hawaiian Huli Chicken at the American Dietetic Association Food and Nutrition Conference (Boston, MA, November 6-9, 2010).

Unity Healthcare, a NHLBI We Can! site, held a Family Day event at the Upper Cardozo Clinic together with the NHLBI. Parents and children learned how to make a new Keep the Beat™ Recipe, Wiki (Fast) Rice, and Quinoa and Black Bean Salad from the Platillos Latinos ¡Sabrosos y Saludables! with Chef Kamen. They also tasted recipes and made their own healthy Snack Mix. Families also took part in fun, active games with staff (Washington, D.C., October 23, 2010).

Keep the Beat exhibit at the National Council of La Raza conference. Participants enjoyed samples of Corn and Black Bean Burritos, collected recipe cards, and signed up for a raffle for Keep the Beat Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Dinners, Platillos Latinos ¡Sabrosos y Saludables!, and a set of Keep the Beat measuring spoons (July 10-13, 2010, San Antonio, TX.)

Hy-Vee staff prepare the Turkey Club Burger recipe for their Cooking Club food sampling event (February 24, 2010 at the 84th & Holdrege Hy-Vee in Lincoln, NE).

Chef David Kamen demonstrates how to make the Lemon and Garlic Pasta With Pan Seared Scallops from Keep the Beat Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Dinners during American Heart Month celebration at the National Institutes of Health.

Children watch Chef Kamen demonstrate the Creamy Squash Soup with Apples recipe at the Union Square Greenmarket (November 11, 2009 in New York City)

NYC Union Square Greenmarket

Dietitians learning about Keep the Beat Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Dinners and sampling Edamame Stew (American Dietetic Association Conference, October 18, 2009)