Every last-Wednesday of the month we distribute extra fruits and/or vegetables! 

Incorporate MyPlate habits into your daily routine:

1 - Make half your grains whole. Choose whole-grain foods, such as whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, brown rice, and low fat popcorn, more often.

2 - Vary your veggies. Go dark green and orange with your vegetables—eat spinach, broccoli, carrots, and sweet potatoes.

3 - Focus on fruits. Eat them at meals, and at snack time, too.

4 - Get your calcium-rich foods. To build strong bones serve low fat and fat-free milk and other milk products several times a day.

5 - Go lean with protein. Eat lean or low fat meat, chicken, turkey, and fish. Also, add chick peas, nuts, or seeds to a salad; pinto beans to a burrito; or kidney beans to soup.

6 - Change your oil. We all need oil. Get yours from fish, nuts, and liquid oils such as corn, soybean, canola, and olive oil.

7 - Don’t sugarcoat it. Choose foods and beverages that do not have sugar and caloric sweeteners as one of the first ingredients.

Building Healthy Communities Long Beach  http://bhclongbeach.org/

Healthy Active Long Beach  www.longbeach.gov/health/health_promotion/healthy_lb.asp
Let's Move  www.longbeach.gov/health/letsmovelb/      www.letsmovela.org/

USDA My Plate  www.choosemyplate.gov