Category: Work & Life

Fabulous Food Cooking Class: Cooking with Diabetes

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September 25, 2013

If you have diabetes, eating right and managing your calorie and carbohydrate intake can be challenging. Learn practical ways to plan and prepare nutritiously balanced meals at home without adding extra sugar, sodium, or fat. Anyone that ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: Amy Mullins, Cooking, Diabetes, Families & Consumers, Family, Family & Consumer Sciences, Food, FYCS, Health, Healthy Cooking, Nutrition, October, Overweight, Pre-diabetes, Shelley Swenson, Type 2 Diabetes, Wakulla County Extension

Women & Money: Unique Issues

by BLOGS.IFAS
September 11, 2013

UF/IFAS Extension Offices in Okaloosa, Walton & Santa Rosa counties are offering a Women and Money: Unique Issues educational series. At some point in their life, women are likely to be solely responsible for financial decision making. ... READ MORE

Category: Money Matters
Tags: Family & Consumer Sciences, Home & Community Education, Money Matters

Women & Money: Unique Issues

by BLOGS.IFAS
September 9, 2013

Category: Money Matters
Tags: Financial

Teaching Children to Save Winners

by Ken Gioeli
September 8, 2013

We are pleased to recognize the winners of the 2013 “Teaching Children to Save” project sponsored by Okaloosa Saves Coalition and UF/Okaloosa County Extension. This is one of many programs coordinated by the University of Florida/Okaloosa ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Money Matters
Tags: 4-H Youth Development, Family & Consumer Sciences, Money Matters

FABULOUS FOOD COOKING SCHOOL: Salsa Garden

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 30, 2013

Tomatoes abundant, onions overwhelming, and peppers aplenty? Put them to good use making tasty salsas. Prepare new recipes and sample the results at the Salsa Garden class. Also included with this workshop are organic, container, and hydroponics ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: Cooking, Cooking Class, Families & Consumers, Family & Consumer Sciences, Food, FYCS, Health, Hydroponics, Les Harrison, Master Gardener, Nutrition, Organic, Salsa, September, Shelley Swenson, Wakulla, Wakulla County Extension

The Normal Curiosity of Children

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 19, 2013

I knew it would happen - the new colorful disks of dish and laundry detergent have caused the death of a child!! A 7-month old Florida boy died after swallowing a candy-colored liquid laundry packet. The Florida Poison Information center ... READ MORE

Category: Relationships & Family, Work & Life
Tags: Baby, Children, Colorful, Death, Dishes, Kids, Laundry, Poison, Urgent

Family Nutrition Program

by Ken Gioeli
August 19, 2013

Great news! We will be hiring two Family Nutrition Program Assistants! These grant funded positions will begin Oct. 1. Deadline to apply is August 31. One full time and one part time! If you are interested (or know someone) applications are ... READ MORE

Category: Events, Health & Nutrition, Relationships & Family
Tags: Family & Consumer Sciences, Food & Health

Affordable Housing Programs in Gadsden County

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 15, 2013

Affordable Housing Programs in Gadsden County: The following programs are available for Gadsden County residents who wish to purchase a home. All programs require that participants attend the first time homebuyer education program and receive ... READ MORE

Category: Home Management, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: Categories

UF has experts for back-to-school news stories on head lice, lunchbox germs & more

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 13, 2013

The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences has experts for back-to-school news stories on head lice, lunchbox germs & more. 1. HEAD LICE: Head lice, an easily transferable pest, are often found in children due ... READ MORE

Category: Work & Life
Tags: Back To School, Extracurricular Activities, Freshman 15, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Lice, Lunchboxes, Nutrition, School, School Lunches, University Of Florida

Reverse Mortgages

by Lisa Krimsky
August 5, 2013

There will be a free live, online Seminar on Reverse Mortgages on Thursday, August 15, 2013 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. EDT. To Register go to this website http://bit.ly/RevMort. Topics included will be How reverse mortgages work Is one ... READ MORE

Category: Money Matters, Work & Life
Tags: Personal Finance, Reverse Mortgages

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