What went down at the last meeting!

Hello All!!

We just wanted to say thank you for coming to the meetings this week!!
If you were unable to attend here is a re-cap of what we went over:

1. Independent Study on Obese 18-24 year old women on campus, please
e-mail us if you would like more information on helping out with this
study.

2. We all were in favor of going to the Fancy Food Show again in the
spring (Yay!!), the whole trip will be between $25-30.

3. Nutrition Club Party at Alex/Abby's House on December 9th at 7pm -
9pm. (we will provide directions when it gets closer to the date). If
you have any food ideas or things you know you would like to bring
please let us know!!

4. Please pick up your "Eat Your Heart Out" Sweatshirts from Alex if
you have not done so already

5. Ideas for Dining Services -- thank you for all your ideas, we are
going to talk with Sue sometime next week before Thanksgiving break
and hopefully decide a date to put on an event similar to the Whole
Grains one last year. If you have any more ideas please feel free to
let us know, we really appreciate all your input!!

6. Thank you to those of you who signed up to receive more information
about volunteering for the Kids Smart Program. It deals with putting
on nutrition workshops for children at schools in Providence talking
about food and health and nutrition. If anyone is interested please
e-mail us!!

I think that is allll, if i forgot something Alex will yell at me and
ill send another e-mail ;) haha. Have a great weekend!!!

Steph
URI Nutrition Club Secretary

Sweatshirts!!!!!!

Hey Everyone!!



Here are the shirts we are voting on. ONLY vote if you want a sweatshirt, they would be about $30 each.



If you already voted, DO NOT e-mail in to vote again please...



#1~ Eat Your Heart Out, #2~ Go Green, #3~ 100% Natural

First Meeting Updates!

Hey Everyone-
It was so great to see you all at our first meetings. We have a few things we wanted to go over in case we missed them or you weren't able to attend the meetings.

First- if you could not make the meetings, e-mail urinutrition@gmail.com with your availability or what meeting times are better. We want to try to find the best meeting time for everyone, if possible.

2. If you have volunteered for anything this month, you will be getting an e-mail regarding it in the next week or so. [Student Organization Fair, Taste of Rhode Island, URI 101 visit] If you are volunteering make arrangements with us to pick up a URI Nutrition Club T-Shirt.

*For Taste of Rhode Island Volunteers
-you must let me know if you cannot volunteer.
-Directions: http://www.newportfestivals.com/directions.htm
-Sign in at the ticket booth with Amica and you will get a name badge!

- If you have any suggestions regarding sweatshirt "slogans" e-mail in up until NEXT FRIDAY (9/19/2008). After that we will vote and decide on them and place orders!

-For those of you who signed up for the Senior Mentoring Program, if you haven't received an e-mail already, be on the look-out for an e-mail from your team leader (one of the officers).

Also- if anyone is interested in organizing a Nutrition Club Team for a Diabetes Walk in Providence on September 27th please e-mail us and let us know! We would love to be able to send some members for that great cause.

We look forward to hearing from all of you. Have a great weekend!

Alex, Abby, Steph & Katy

Pres, VP, Sec, Treas

1st meeting!

Hello all,

Can I just say on behalf of the nutrition club we are so happy to see the turnout this year!! Its so awesome we have so many new faces and ideas to help this club grow and get our name out!

I just wanted to re-cap on what happened at todays meeting:

- We got people to sign up for the Student Organization Fair on Sept 17th!! yayy


- We talked about some ideas for the sweatshirts, but we are welcome to new ones if anyone has a cute slogan they want to tell us about!! We will be voting on designs within the next few meetings.

- We all agreed that the trip to the Food Show last year was the best idea ever and the food was really yummy and we are working on trying to go down again this year!!

- We talked about some issues that would like to be addressed in future meetings such as...

Antioxidants
Types of Fats, good vs bad
Healthy Dinging Hall Options
Alternatives to meat for example leaner cuts or healthier options

That is all my food fanatics, please check the blog regularly and feel free to post comments or ideas or email the nutrition club at urinutrition@gmail.com

Thanks!!


Steph
Nutrition Club Secretary

Yay we have a blog

Hello all,

So we have a blog now! Yessss. I will be posting information about meetings, events, important nutrition club tasks, and other fun stuff on this page - so please save it in your favorites. I will also create a link on our facebook group page so you can access it there as well.

I hope the last few days of summer treat you all well -- make sure to get your Vitamin D ;)

and get ready for an amazing fall semester!! :)

See you all so soon,

Steph
URI Nutrition Club Secretary