“Healthy Cents combines nutrition education and food resource management principles to encourage limited resource families to make healthy food choices on a limited budget. Each lesson corresponds to one of the following thematic areas:
- Making Healthy Choices on a Budget
- Decreasing Food Expenses
- Developing a Food Budget
- Planning a Meal
- Food Shopping on a budget”

- Pilot Tested
“The Healthy Cents curriculum was piloted in the following 5 Maryland counties from November 2011 through May 2012: Allegany, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, and St. Mary's. Pilot educators provided curricular review and evaluative data to inform revisions of the Healthy Cents curriculum.”