Food Hero went live in September of 2009 and Be A Food Hero Month is now nationally recognized each September.

September birthday hashtags: #BeAFoodHero #FoodHero10Strong

More tools will be added as they are created!

Food Hero Smoothie Recipes

www.foodhero.org/smoothies

Be A Food Hero Cookbook

This book is a great tool for Food Heroes! It includes:

• 37 tasty, flexible and healthy low-cost recipes tested with adults and kids.  The recipes used in this book are some of Food Hero’s most popular and require a limited set of common ingredients and basic cooking tools. Each recipe provides ideas to make it your own.
• guides for measuring and storing ingredients and cooking tools.
• flavored water basics and snack ideas.

Food Heroes Fighting Hunger and Food Insecurity         

2019 Results for Food Hero

On the Oregon State University Day of Giving, everyone can help fight hunger among low-income Oregonians. 

By supporting Food Hero, you’ll expand the campaign’s capacity to create nutrition-related tools and experiences for Oregon families in every county.  These include food tastings, cooking skill demos, the award-winning Food Hero Monthly, a website, and cookbooks offering tasty, low-cost, healthy Food Hero recipes.  For instance, to help increase Oregon families’ consumption of healthy, home-cooked meals, Food Hero has designed a free recipe book with popular campaign recipes and file folders at the back to store more favorite recipes. Your gift to Food Hero will increase the number of cookbooks we print.

Donors of $20 or more, with a US address, will receive a free printed cookbook!  Outside the US?  We will email an electronic version.

About the new cookbook/recipe filer:

• Includes 24 popular campaign recipes featured with multiple user generated variations-- tasty, low-cost, few total ingredients, kid approved, customizable, common kitchen tools
• Includes folders to file you favorite recipes for the future 
• Printed and delivered in the fall of 2019 aligned with back to school and the 10 year anniversary of Food Hero

The Food Hero Kids Art project is a fun way to get kids excited about drawing all types of food. We love to see all the art, and may feature the artwork on the Ingredients page, social media or in other Food Hero materials. 

- Please mail artwork to Lauren Tobey, OSU, 106 Ballard Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331 

- Or email to Food.Hero@oregonstate.edu  

Some suggestions for artwork: Cucumbers, Mangos, Water, Cherries, Oranges/Citrus, Yogurt, Bell Peppers, Squash, Potatoes, Pumpkin, Parsnips, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Brussels Sprouts, Rhubarb, Lentils, and Split Peas.

The Food Hero Bingo project was created to promote comprehensive wellness for children and their families over outside of school. The card includes 24 tasks covering healthy eating (14), physical activity (7), and less screen time (3). All tasks were designed to be achievable and replicable by most families, and desirable to be reported by schools as collective successes.

Try our online At Home Bingo!

Food Hero is piloting the insertion of Food Hero Monthlies at the point of purchase in Grocery Stores and Client Choice Food Pantries.  Additionally any materials from the Community Toolkit can be used in grocery stores.  

Four Food Hero Monthly newsletters translated into Vietnamese. More coming soon!

The files below will help you market the Food Hero quantity recipes to your team and partners.

CHILD NUTRITION VIRTUAL CULINARY WORKSHOP

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Oregon State University Extension is holding the third annual Grow This! Oregon Gardening Challenge.  The Challenge began in 2020, and saw huge success, with over 3,300 participants across the state. The success and widespread participation only continued to grow during the 2021 Challenge, where over 8,000 participants signed up.  For the 2022 Challenge, we’re offering more tailored seed envelopes and kits in order reach more diverse groups of participants such as households, gardening coordinators, schools and other groups throughout Oregon.  This page contains planning materials for Grow This.  

Healthy School Celebrations Toolkit Resource Guide

Use our Healthy Celebrations Toolkit to meet the needs of your program.  We like to use these materials on our bulletin boards and event signs and in combination with our featured food images. 

Food Hero Monthlies:

- All Celebration Monthlies

- Drink Water Your Way

- Easy Flavored Water For Groups

- Healthy and Fun Celebrations

- School Snacks

- Snack Ideas - English

- Snack Ideas - Bilingual

- Also see our Smoothie Cart page.

Once submitted to the Food Hero team potential recipes go through testing.  In addition to being tested for overall flavor, color, and texture we look for recipes that have low-cost and easy to find ingredients, easy to follow instructions, and a reasonable preparation time.  Each recipe is tasted and rated using these comment cards.

Student Food Hero Coordinators and Volunteers

The Food Hero Recipe Style Guide and Nutrition Criteria are used to develop and update our recipes.

The Food Hero English-to-Spanish Translation Glossary is a reference list of common vocabulary terms.  A team of bilingual SNAP-Ed & EFNEP nutrition educators from throughout Oregon provides ongoing input, working with a professional translation team and reviewer team. The intention is to have consistent, easily understood word use across Food Hero materials, and words that are understandable across Spanish dialects.

The Latin Heritage workgroup provides continual and essential Spanish Language Support to Food Hero, with bilingual Food Hero nutrition educators from throughout Oregon working with a professional translation team and reviewer team. The intention with all product translations is to have consistent, easily understood word use across materials, and words that are understandable across Spanish dialects.