YUM — Mackenzie Honeycutt samples a green bean and determines it delicious.
Dawn Bossie, Health and Physical Education teacher, coordinates the Eat Well Nutrition Education program at Mill Pond school with Jolynn Stevens of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension.
Through this grant, students are educated about the benefits of eating healthy and how to make a variety of healthy foods and snacks.
The program also offers free services to families in their own home to help them learn a variety of things including how to save money, how to shop and prepare delicious recipes, how to read food labels, and how to grow a garden. 
SAMPLES — Through the Eat Well Nutrition Program, students like Anton Mowrey and Dylan Dangerfield learn about the food pyramid, read books to learn more about food and enjoy sampling healthy foods to see what they like. Anton prefers the sweet red peppers while Dylan loves cucumbers.
Parents can also choose to participate in the Eat Well-By-Mail program which is a series of lessons that they can do through the mail.
To learn more about the program, parents should contact Stevens at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension office at 532-6548.
HEALTHY SNACK — “What’s up, doc?” Sammy Adams and Robert McIver crunch on some carrots. Students at Hodgdon Mill Pond School participated in the Eat Well Nutrition Education program. Students are educated about the benefits of eating healthy and how to make a variety of healthy foods and snacks.
Stevens recently visited Mrs. DeWitt’s kindergarten class and gave students the opportunity to try and rate a variety of vegetables.
Students kept track of their own preferences on a chart so they could share their results with their families. The class also compiled their results and determined that the cucumber was the most favorite vegetable and broccoli was the least favorite.
The cucumber wins; broccoli loses
