LifeSPAN Gazette
February, 2021
Cook With Miss Cara!
Gather the family and join preschool nutrition facilitator Cara Ortiz for another live cooking demonstration as she prepares Chocolate Strawberries from Grow It, Try It, Like It!™ This is a simple (and delicious!) recipe that preschoolers will love helping with. Feel free to turn on your video during the call to interact and ask questions, or leave your sound and video off and watch like a cooking show.
Join the live Zoom call on Thursday, February 25th at 5:30pm:
https://eupschools.zoom.us/j/95724541321
Take a look at the recipe below, and consider having the ingredients ready to cook along with Miss Cara!
Join the live Zoom call on Thursday, February 25th at 5:30pm:
https://eupschools.zoom.us/j/95724541321
Take a look at the recipe below, and consider having the ingredients ready to cook along with Miss Cara!
Chocolate Strawberries, from Grow It, Try It, Like It!™


Still hungry? Try these delicious strawberry recipes from Michigan Harvest of the Month™!
Strawberry Facts...Did You Know?
Serve some up! Sliced strawberries can be added to cereal, yogurt, fruit salads or green salads, blended into smoothies, or used as a topping for pancakes or waffles. What other ways do you like to enjoy strawberries? | Half a cup. Half a cup of sliced strawberries provides an excellent source of vitamin C, a nutrient necessary for growth and development. The human body can't make vitamin C, so it's important to eat foods with vitmain C every day! | Grow them! Strawberries do well in container gardens and can be grown in pots inside or on porches. SNAP benefits on the Michigan Bridge Card can be used to purchase food producing plants, including strawberries. |
Serve some up!
Sliced strawberries can be added to cereal, yogurt, fruit salads or green salads, blended into smoothies, or used as a topping for pancakes or waffles. What other ways do you like to enjoy strawberries?
Half a cup.
Half a cup of sliced strawberries provides an excellent source of vitamin C, a nutrient necessary for growth and development. The human body can't make vitamin C, so it's important to eat foods with vitmain C every day!
Berry Bounce! (adapted from Grow It, Try It, Like It!™)
Active play and movement are important for every child's growth and development, and Berry Bounce is a fun way for kids to move their bodies! Show your child pictures of (or have them try!) strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries. Explain that they will be acting out each berry in a Berry Bounce! Each type of bounce can be done for 20-30 seconds or longer, and repeated several times at once or throughout the day.
Strawberry! Place the arms, crossed at the wrists, on the top of the head with the hands extended out like little green leaf caps. Ready, and...bounce! | Raspberry! Place each hand, palm side down, on the top of the opposite shoulder (right hand on left shoulder, left hand on right shoulder) with the arms crossed in front of the chest and elbows pointed out like little bumps on a raspberry. Ready, and...bounce! | Blueberry! Place each hand on the opposite elbow, with arms circled in front of the abdomen so that they're smooth and rounded, like a blueberry. Ready, and...bounce! |
Strawberry!
Place the arms, crossed at the wrists, on the top of the head with the hands extended out like little green leaf caps. Ready, and...bounce!
Raspberry!
Place each hand, palm side down, on the top of the opposite shoulder (right hand on left shoulder, left hand on right shoulder) with the arms crossed in front of the chest and elbows pointed out like little bumps on a raspberry.
Ready, and...bounce!
Ready, and...bounce!
Upcoming Feeding America Mobile Food Pantries
February 3, 2021
- 1:00 PM - Bay Mills Community College - Farm Market Pavilion - 11644 W. Plantation Rd., Brimley, MI 49715
February 10, 2021
- 10:00 AM - United Way of the EUP - Kinross Recreation Center, 43 Wood Lake Rd., Kincheloe, MI 49788
February 17, 2021
- 4:00 PM- Big Bear Arena (Chi Mukwa), 2 Ice Circle Chi Mukwa (Big Bear), Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783
February 25, 2021
- 2:00 PM- Luce County LINK, 103 West Helen Street, Newberry, MI 49868
Les Cheneaux Islands SNOWSFEST!
Get out of the house for a weekend the whole family will enjoy, at the 60th Annual Les Cheneaux Islands Snowsfest, February 13-15. Activities include outdoor games for kids, sledding and tubing, fishing, snow yoga, lantern lit hiking, a dog walk, and more! Most activities require purchase of a $5 Snowsfest button to participate.*

For more info and to view a detailed event schedule, check out the Les Cheneaux Islands Chamber of Commerce Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/LesCheneauxTA
*Events requiring Snowsfest button are marked on the full schedule with an asterisk.
https://www.facebook.com/LesCheneauxTA
*Events requiring Snowsfest button are marked on the full schedule with an asterisk.
Lantern Lit Snowshoe Walk
Check out this free event happening on the Big Bear Nature Trail in Sault Ste. Marie on February 12th!

Falling in Love with Winter Hiking
Want to get active while enjoying some gorgeous snowy scenery? Check out the link below and think about joining this hike happening at Tahquamenon Falls State Park on Saturday, February 13.
https://www.facebook.com/events/168021744689053/?ti=ls
https://www.facebook.com/events/168021744689053/?ti=ls
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This project was funded in whole or in part by the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Fitness Foundation.
*This institution is an equal opportunity provider.