Resources

Helpful links

All outside links are non-affiliate (I don’t get anything from your clicks or purchases).

Recommended cooking tools for kids:

• Kid-safe nylon knives

• Sharp stainless steel knives and scissors for kids

• Peelers    

• No-slip mixing bowls

Two resources I made just for parents, teachers, and caregivers:

• Guide: five safe, easy ways kids can help with dinner*

• Guide: my favorite kids’ books about food to encourage exploration*

(You do have to enter your email to download these guides; I never share emails and you can opt out anytime.)

Just a few of the people whose work I love in the nutrition/food world (reach out for more suggestions!):

• Food Heaven podcast - registered dietitian nutritionists Wendy Lopez and Jessica Jones talk to health & nutrition experts about sustainable and inclusive wellness.

• Kid Food Explorers — a dietitian and mom of three shares excellent free resources on helping kids explore food in a low-pressure, food neutral way.

• Marquisele Mercedes - a fat liberationist writer-educator and public health scholar whose brilliant work has taught me so much. Check out the podcast she co-hosts, Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back.

• Dietitians 4 Teachers - dietitian Gwen Kostal provides resources to help guide conversations away from harmful diet talk and toward food neutrality/positive food relationships. Helpful for everyone, not just teachers!*

*Disclosure: I have since taught Gwen’s kids!

Who we support

A portion of the proceeds from all my classes go to Black, Indigenous, and immigrant-led organizations working for a more equitable food system, including:

• HEAL Food Alliance - A coalition of 55 organizations “building a movement to transform our food and farm systems from the current extractive economic model towards community control, care for the land, local economies, meaningful labor, and healthful communities nationwide, while supporting the sovereignty of all living beings.”

• National Black Food and Justice Alliance - A coalition of Black-led organizations “aimed at developing Black leadership, supporting Black communities, organizing for Black self-determination, and building institutions for Black food sovereignty & liberation.”

• Food Chain Workers Alliance - A coalition of 31 food worker-based organizations, working together to “build a more sustainable food system that respects workers’ rights, based on the principles of social, environmental and racial justice, in which everyone has access to healthy and affordable food.”

• Okra Project - A collective that “seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever we can reach them.”

• Seeding Sovereignty - An “Indigenous-led collective, work[ing] to radicalize and disrupt colonized spaces through land, body, and food sovereignty work, community building, and cultural preservation.”

• Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance - An alliance “advocating for and supporting all levels of food security and food sovereignty in local, tribal, regional, national and international arenas.”

• CoFed - A “QBPOC-led organization that partners with young folks of color from poor and working-class backgrounds to meet our communities' needs through food and land co-ops.”

These are just some of many wonderful BIPOC-led organizations building a better food system. Stir The Pot is not formally associated with any of these organizations; I simply admire their work and want to support them.