Welcome to the LAST ReFresh newsletter of the fall season! We hope you have been enjoying the ReFresh bags!
In this newsletter, you will:
– Learn more about chicos and their health benefits in “Ask a Nutritionist”.
– Learn about the Persephone period in “Gardening tips”.
– Find a few simple recipes that you can make with the fresh ingredients in your ReFresh bag!
– Check out the community resource section to learn about the Nutritional Values campaign at Three Sisters Kitchen and important dates for the food distributions at Roadrunner Food Bank!
– Find information about Hoodies 4 The Homeless Clothing Drive.
We hope you enjoy this newsletter and thank you for your participation as we work together to build a healthy local food system.
Text your questions, photos, and comments to: (505) 226-3707.
ReFresh Program Post-survey
As this ReFresh season winds down, we are grateful that we could share this experience with you, and we hope that the program has provided a bit of comfort and nourishment. Some of you have been with the program since March 2020, and some of you joined over the past few months. Either way, we are grateful to have the opportunity to share food, learn, and build with you!
Ask a Nutritionist What are chicos and what are their health benefits?
Chicos are dried corn and are well known right here in New Mexico. Chicos are great to add to beans and soups. When you add chicos to your beans, what essentially happens is the chicos start to swell up. The taste of the chicos can be sweet and smoky. Chicos are rich in vitamins B, C, E and K, and minerals like iron and potassium. Yellow Corn contains a good amount of protein and fiber. Fiber helps with gut health as well as keeping you fuller longer between meals. Vitamin B, C, E and K help with eye health and protect your cells from heart disease and other chronic illnesses. Iron is great for promoting good blood circulation and good overall energy. Potassium is great for muscles and nerves to contract and function well. Check out this delicious recipe using chicos.
Have more questions about food and nutrition? Send your questions to [email protected]
Disclaimer: The information shared by Three Sisters Kitchen (TSK) is for general informational purposes only, and is not meant to substitute for the advice provided by a doctor or other health care provider
Recipe and photo by Charlotte Moore
Gardening Post
Content from farmer Tiana Baca
Recipes We Love
This garbanzo beans and potato soup is a great source of fiber and vitamin C. Sign up for the online cooking class HERE to cook this soup with us!
This bowl of nachos is not only tasty but packed with vitamins A, C, E, K, and fiber which is good for your gut health and boosts your immune system.
This potato and kale casserole is rich in vitamins and minerals. Just one cup of kale provides 6% of iron and 9% calcium which is great for keeping your bones strong and healthy.
Recipes by 1) Teya Moore 2) Teya Moore 3) Irma Ramos
Community Resource Our Nutritional Values campaign at Three Sisters Kitchen
We are excited to launch a new project at TSK called #OurNutritionalValues with five restaurant partners throughout the month of November. To check it out – and to get free lunch while supplies last – visit Nexus Blue Smokehouse, Buen Provecho, The Shop Breakfast & Lunch, Street Food Institute Cafe at CNM, or Soo Bak Seoul Bowl and order the “Nutritional Values Meal”. You’ll get a special dish (the first 100 at each restaurant are free!) and a Nutritional Values Meal Kit with stories and fun swag developed through Three Sisters Kitchen’s Shifting Narratives Around the Table project. If you check them out, be sure to post your nutritional values – and tag us #OurNutritionalValues #ThreeSistersKitchenNM!
Road Runner Food Bank will be holding drive-thru food distributions
Date: November 19 at 8:00am at AMC theatre 3810 Las Estancia Way SW, Albuquerque, NM 87121
Date: November 23 at 8:00am at EXPO New Mexico 300 San Pedro Dr NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108
First time at the Road food distribution will have to pre-register
* NM grown / NM made. We raise money to purchase these foods from local farmers and food producers as a concrete way to invest in our local food system and get delicious, fresh, local food to our ReFresh families. Keep an eye out for these local farms and food businesses when you do your food shopping. ReFresh boxes will always include local food items.
Thank You!
Special thanks to all of the farmers and food producers working so hard to feed our communities; our partner organizations who helped to recruit ReFresh families: Kids Cook!, YES Housing, Together for Brothers, SWOP, Centro Savila, Street Food Institute, and Mandy’s Farm; to the staff, volunteers, donors, and ReFresh families who make the program work, and to our partners at MoGro Mobile Grocery, who pack these beautiful ReFresh bags each week for us, and who do so much important work connecting communities to healthy food throughout New Mexico. There would be no ReFresh program without all of you – we love our partners!
– All of us at Three Sisters Kitchen
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Chicos are dried corn and are well known right here in New Mexico. Chicos are great to add to beans and soups. When you add chicos to your beans, what essentially happens is the chicos start to swell up. The taste of the chicos can be sweet and smoky. Chicos are rich in vitamins B, C, E and K, and minerals like iron and potassium. Yellow Corn contains a good amount of protein and fiber. Fiber helps with gut health as well as keeping you fuller longer between meals. Vitamin B, C, E and K help with eye health and protect your cells from heart disease and other chronic illnesses. Iron is great for promoting good blood circulation and good overall energy. Potassium is great for muscles and nerves to contract and function well. Check out this delicious recipe using chicos.
