Long Island Cares – The Harry Chapin Food Bank offers cooking, food safety and nutrition training workshops to our network of more than 590 emergency food provider member agencies. Through our classes, member agency food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and child care providers can learn and earn certificates in nutrition and food safety. As of July 1st 2015 all Long Island Cares member EFP’s are required by the New York State Department of Health in accordance with Long Island Cares Agency Agreement to attend Food Safety Sanitation & Nutrition Education Training Workshops during the contract year. Workshops are offered at our Hauppauge, Huntington Station, Hampton Bays & Freeport Long Island Cares Service Centers.

ONLINE FOOD SAFETY AND SANITATION CERTIFICATE TRAININGS FOR FOOD PANTRIES AND SOUP KITCHENS

• Online Food Safety & Sanitation Training 2021 – Food Pantries – click here
• Online Food Safety & Sanitation Training 2021 – Meal Programs – click here

ALL ABOUT HPNAP – Slide presentation for new and current HPNAP member agencies
All-About-HPNAP-Presentation-2020-2021

BE OUR GUEST CHEF FIGHTING HUNGER HERE IN OUR KITCHEN STUDIO OR AT YOUR RESTAURANT
Currently on Pause due to covid19

Guest Chef’s Fighting Hunger at Long Island Cares  Our Nutrition Education staff and guest chefs offer scheduled cooking demonstrations and menu planning workshops which focus on providing healthy recipes and meal makeovers using local fresh produce, lean proteins, whole grains and other items distributed by our foodbank to soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters and community centers throughout Nassau and Suffolk counties. Staff dietitians incorporate educational nutrition guidelines to help reduce  the risk of childhood obesity, curtail nutrition related diseases, promote healthy eating, food safety and shopping on a limited budget. Our guest chef’s are able to provide food preparation techniques and share their culinary skills with an attentive studio audience of pantry and soup kitchen staff and volunteers involved in feeding the hungry on Long Island. Having the ability to share recipes and dishes that can easily be created with food found in a local food pantry enhances our ability to define how good eating can be a part of solving food insecurity and that there’s more than one way to utilize a specific food or ingredient. Many of our kitchen studio demonstrations are filmed and shown on our website and various social media platforms.  

NUTRITION AND FOOD SAFETY RESOURCES

• Dry Food Storage Temperature Log
• Cold Perishable Food Storage Temperature Log
• Tips & Tricks to cooking anything in a microwave
• Expiration dates Food Keeper 
• Food Storage and Shelf Life Guidelines
• Real Truth and Answers video clip about expired foods from a National Food Lab Expert
• Food Safety References
•  Shelf Life of Food Bank Products
• 10 Shelf Stable Foods That Can Outlast You
• Fresh Produce Storage Guide
• Storing Fruits and Veggies Chart
• CHOP Guide 2019
• Food Safety During A Power Outage

Eating Healthy On A Budget

• Eating Healthy On A Budget by Samantha Abella, Nutrition Resource Manager

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Stay up to date with FDA, USDA & CDC food recalls…

http://www.recalls.gov/food.html
http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm
http://www.licares.org/agency-support/agency-news/