Oh my goodness it smells so good in here.
We are in the Great Day kitchen with Jessica Medina
She is representing the Fresno State Student Cupboard.
Jessica is here to show us how to make a few delicious dishes, which will we be making now, Jessica?
Oh my goodness, so now we are making another recipe from our Student Health 101
We are going to make black bean burrito bowls.
Something again that you can do as a meal prep type of option
At the beginning of the week or you can make them just for dinner or lunch
or whatever works
We have gone ahead and prepared some rice already ahead of time,
We have 2 cups of chicken broth
You are going to let that boil, simmer it down for about 20 minutes
we are heating up some black beans over here as well
All  of these things you can get at the student cupboard and our students can use them right there
Now we are going to go ahead and saute up some vegetables
We are going to take a little bit of olive oil and coat the pan here a little bit
We are going to get these vegetables going so we can saute those up as well
So at the cupboard, that is where students can come in and get food,
Yes, and, bring it home so they can prepare, and do you teach them also how to cook it and use it?
Excellent, so we do try to provide our students with lots of different recipes at the student cupboard
We know that a lot of our students when they come in, they aren't really sure how to cook the items that we provide them...
So we try to help provide them with healthy recipes, we try to provide them with budgeting tools on how to shop on a budget,
We know that a lot of our students aren't really sure how to do that, shopping on a budget and what to be able to purchase
We also at the student cupboard help our students sign up for CalFresh and we help educate them on what they can use their CalFresh dollars for
and then they go out and buy healthy produce, meats dairy
things like that so they can get what they need at the cupboard
and then turn around and use that to go purchase additional items they need
And good nutrition is so important when you are trying to learn and then spending time having to worry about having a meal
That's horrible. If someone is watching and they want to help you guys, what can they do?
We are very excited about the Big Fresno Fair at the Fresno State red lot on Monday
the 25th from 7 am - 2 pm anyone who comes out and brings 10 canned food items
will get a ticket to the Big Fresno Fair
We are really excited that all of these items are coming back to the student cupboard to support our students
This is the 9th year of the Feed the Need drive going on at the Big Fresno Fair
And we are really excited to be partnering with them and they donated over 700 tons of food in the last 9 years
Really excited and really thankful for the support and to be able to provide for our students
And that's an easy way to offer support and you know you are helping students out
Yes. You've been with the cupboard since it's inception, right? I have, yes.
So I was one of the staff that was brought onto the Student Cupboard when we originally started this entire program to support our students
And I've just really been thankful for the opportunity to be able to support our students and
the stories, Yeah what are their stories?
The stories from these students about the thanks that they give us for supporting them, so many of our students may be parents
they may be still living at home, just all kinds of different things and we want to make sure we are supporting them
through all of their basic needs so that they can be successful in the classroom
That is terrific. And you also have hygiene products as well, right
We do have hygiene products as well, so once a month we give away hygiene packs for our students
And this allows them the opportunity to have some hygiene items too
When know that when a student is struggling with food security they are probably struggling with being able to
support themselves with those types of items as well
So we really want to be sure we are providing those students with all of the access to food and hygiene
to education to resources in the community
all kinds of things to make sure that they are supported and can be a successful student at Fresno State
That is so wonderful. So we are going to go ahead, we have our veggies sauted up, and we are going to go ahead and put a bowl together!
Oh my so let's go ahead and grab one here and get a bowl together and we will go ahead and start with some rice here
We are going to put some rice here on the bottom, you can make this exactly how you want it
you can add things to it if you want to add sour cream, if you want to add meat to it, if you want to add additional items, it's all completely up to you
Like I said it's great again for our students to be able to meal prep ahead of time
so that way they are able to get these things ready and on the go and be able to take to class
so we are going to put some black beans on top here next
We've got our veggies here sauteing up and they smell delicious
I wish everyone on TV could smell how great they smell
We are going to put some of these right here on top
Make up a nice beautiful bowl right here for our students, again a very healthy option
And it didn't take long, it didn't take long at all
I think the rice is about the longest thing, it takes about 20 minutes
but again, not very difficult and one of the things they can do if they wanted to purchase rice that was already premade they could do something like that as well
We are going to throw some lettuce on here, I chopped up some avocado to put on top
And my favorite part is a little squeeze of fresh lime here on the top
to give it a nice little zest to finish it all off
and there we go!
Thank you very much! You are very welcome.
Oh it smells so good and the lime really adds to it
Jessica will be back at the 9:00 show to teach us how to make a few more delicious dishes
And remember if you ever see a dish made right here in the Great Day kitchen you can make it yourself, we have
a whole recipe list on our website at kmph.com use your phone and click the kitchen tab
