Tri River FSNE Agent Jeanne Rice 1845 South Townsend Ave Montrose CO 81401 (970) 252-5071 or email fsnep@montrose.net
Mesa County FSNE Educator Liddy Ellis 2775 Highway 50 P.O. Box 20,000-5028 Grand Junction, CO 81502-5028 (970) 244-1848 or email Liddy.Ellis@mesacounty.us.

Our Mission

To reach limited resource Coloradoans with nutrition, food safety, and food-buying education, enabling them to establish healthy food-related behaviors.

Outcome Goals:

Improved nutrient intakes
Improved food safety practices
Improved food-buying skills and behaviors
Increased self-efficacy

1. make informed decisions about their health and spending patterns
2. move toward economic self-sufficiency

About Food Stamps

The determination of Food Stamp benefits is based on these suppositions:

All meals and snacks are purchased at grocery stores and prepared at home.
Meals and snacks are planned and prepared based on the Dietary Guidelines.
Foods are to be usually prepared from scratch.

Limited resource residents of the Tri River Area will find help with many recipes using simple ingredients at http://recipefinder.nal.usda.gov/
For more help with the challenges of eating healthy on a limited budget contact Jeanne or Liddy.

To learn more about the Extension Nutrition Education Program of which FSNE is one component check out the web site at http://www.cahs.colostate.edu/fshn/nep/enp/index.html. Impacts of this program can be found at http://www.cahs.colostate.edu/fshn/nep/enp/impacts.htm