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The goal of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) is to improve the likelihood that persons eligible for food assistance will make healthy food choices within a limited budget and choose physically active lifestyles consistent with the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPyramid.
Guiding Principles:
 SNAP-Ed is intended for food assistance participants and individuals eligible
for the Food Assistance Program.
SNAP-Ed is a set of learning experiences designed to facilitate the voluntary
adoption of eating and other nutrition-related behaviors conducive to health
and well being for those on a limited budget.
SNAP-Ed has the greatest potential for impact on the nutrition-related
behaviors of the overall food assistance population when it targets women and
children in food stamp eligible households.
SNAP-Ed uses science-based, behaviorally-focused interventions and can
maximize its national impact by concentrating on a small set of key outcomes.
- Eat fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free or low-fat milk products every day.
- Be physically active every day as part of a healthy lifestyle.
- Balance caloric intake from food and beverages with calories expended.
SNAP-Ed can maximize its reach when coordination and collaboration take
place among a variety of stakeholders at the local, State, regional and national
levels.
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