The goals of Edible Education lessons include:
- to create positive experience with food
- to encourage positive behavior change in food choices
While creating positive experiences around food is pretty easy (everyone loves an activity that ends in a snack!) that only accounts for the isolated moment in time. The ultimate goal is that the experiences will lead to a positive and lasting behavior change in food choices. Assessing progress towards this goal can be challenging, particularly when working with children – who have limited control over the food that is offered to them and often have limited memory or ability to report historic behaviors.
Through my years of work in Edible Education, I have compiled some of the most effective methods I have found for assessing progress towards food-related behavior change. Click below to take a look:
Tending Our Common Ground 