Fueled For Adventure
Fueled for Adventure
A weekly program that promotes healthy eating habits. Each week we lead a program in our Red Rocket Café that begins with learning how to make a healthy snack and ends with eating the yummy results! Join us Thursdays at 3:30 by the Red Rocket Café for Fueled for Adventure.
February Fueled for Adventure celebrates American Heart Month
February is American Heart Month and Fueled for Adventure has prepared several delicious heart healthy recipes for museum guests. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and is a major cause of disability. Healthy eating habits is a great way to prevent heart disease. Stop by the Red Rocket Cafe, Thursdays at 3:30 for a healthy cooking demonstration and a tasty heart healthy snack!
February 2:
- Veggie Snack Mix
- Exercise for a healthy heart: jumping rope
February 9:
- Fruit Mix with apples and cranberries
- Exercise for a healthy heart: dancing
February 16:
- Vegetable Kabobs
- Exercise for a healthy heart: cycling
February 24:
- Nuts for a healthy heart
- Exercise for a healthy heart: daily walking
January Fueled for Adventure Goes to the Classroom
This January Fueled for Adventure goes to the classroom. First grade students at Timberlawn Elementary School got the chance to select the recipes that will be featured each Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in January at the museum’s Red Rocket Café. Students chose the recipes and ingredients based on a letter of the alphabet. January recipes include healthy ingredients like cucumbers, blueberries, strawberries and apples.
- The letter C was chosen by first grader Emeri Hudson as the January 5 Fueled for Adventure recipe letter. We will be making Cucumber Snacks! Find the recipe here.
- Jatasia Donald selected the letter S for the January 12 Fueled for Adventure. On January 12 we will be make Strawberry Yogurt Graham Crackers. Strawberry recipe.
- Jamareon Reed chose the letter B for January 19. Jamareon’s favorite fruit is grapes and his favorite vegetable is sweet potato. Blueberries were chosen as this week’s ingredient. The blueberry snack recipe can be found here.
- The letter A was selected by Michael Watson to be the January 26 recipe letter. Michael’s favorite vegetable is corn. With the letter A we are making Apple Sandwiches with granola and peanut butter. You can find the Apple recipe here.
Pictures from Timberlawn Elementary’s 1st graders in Ms. Knight and Ms. Washington’s class