Health Services taking recipes for cookbook

Balancing a healthy diet in college can be a difficult task to accomplish. Student Health Services at GCSU has decided to create a cookbook filled with delectable recipe favorites.
The book will contain categories of Healthy and Not So Healthy recipes with subcategories of breads, salads, soups, casseroles, vegan, vegetables, seafood, meat and desserts.
Some recipes that have recently been donated include Grandma’s Baked Macaroni and Cheese, Mexican Lasagna, Easy Brunswick Stew and Lime Chiffon Cake.
Kayleigh Harkins, a senior early childhood education major, has already submitted her Sweet N’ Sour Baked Chicken recipe to the cookbook.
“I decided that I wanted to be a part of this cookbook so I donated a recipe that my roommate and I both enjoy, that is both easy to make and tastes delicious,” Harkins said.
The recipes that are donated will include the person’s name at the bottom of each recipe and their classification.
Currently, Student Health Services has 61 submissions of recipes that have been donated by GCSU students, faculty and alumni.
University Health Educator Rachel Sullivan is in charge of putting this cookbook together. She hopes to debut the cookbook at the Spring Health Fair sponsored by Student Health Services on March 4.
“We need at least 100 more recipes to successfully make the cookbook,” Sullivan said. “Then we will be printing 250-300 copies to be purchased.”
The first 35 GCSU students, staff or faculty to arrive at the Spring Health Fair will get a free copy. The cookbook will be available for purchase after the fair at the Student Health Services in Beeson Hall from 8:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, while supplies last.
“In searching for giveaways for the Spring Health Fair, I found some cookbooks that were “Georgia” inspired, ” Sullivan said. “Student Health Services wanted to do something that had never been done before and this was the perfect idea.”
Student Health Services wants to include healthy options of cooking while providing not-so-healthy but “oh so good” recipes.
Erica Yampierre, a sophomore chemistry major, thinks a healthy diet is important with the balance of unhealthy treats as well.
“If I had a cookbook that gave me recipes on healthy means, I think that it would persuade me to try and eat healthier and having other meals that would be considered unhealthy as a treat every once in a while would be helpful,” Yampierre said.
The recipes must be submitted by Feb. 17 via e-mail in order for Student Health Services to print the cookbook on time. The recipes must be emailed to rachel.sullivan@gcsu.edu.
“This will be a timeless classic added to the GCSU collection,” Sullivan said.

Posted by Sophie Singer on Feb 12 2010. Filed under Features. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry