What is P-EBT? - YouTube

Hi my name is Liliana, FoodWIse nutrition  educator with University of Wisconsin Madison  

Division of Extension Brown County. Have you  heard about P-EBT? No? Pay attention this  

information can be really helpful for you and your  family. First thing first, what is P-EBT? P-EBT  

provides temporary food benefits for children  who usually get free or reduced price school  

meals through the national school lunch program  these benefits are called pandemic EBT or P-EBT  

Good news isn't it? Now let me  explain how you can apply for  

this great benefit, you can get in  touch with your food service program  

for help with the application as well under  this video you will have access to a link  

that connects you with the online application  process if you already have a quest card like  

the green one that you see on the screen. The  benefit will get loaded in the card automatically.  

Still there? You can use these cards like  in debit cards to buy food seeds and plants  

if you're able to get the benefits you will  get a combined benefit amount for March and  

April of around 176 dollars for each child these  are retroactive benefit that means even though  

march already passed still you can apply and get  the benefit for May and June combined you will  

get around 148 dollars for each child more good  news you will have one year to use the benefits

Now let's think about the benefit of using P-EBT  for healthy eating you and your family can benefit  

from eating healthy to name a few benefits you  and your family can feel healthy with more energy,  

eating healthy will help prevent and manage  health conditions such as diabetes and high blood  

pressure. Eating healthy can maintain a healthy  weight and you will be a role model for your kids.  

One tool that can be used to make sure meals are  balanced is MyPlate. MyPlate contains five groups,  

the goal is to eat from all five every day and you  can see from the size of the pieces on my plane  

that you should eat more from  some food groups than others  

as you can see fruits and vegetables fill half  of MyPlate not every meal will contain all five  

but the more food groups you can include  the more nutritious your meals will be.

I know that you think eating healthy is expensive  please know that you don't have to spend a lot of  

money to purchase nutritious foods, one way to  save money is to plan ahead something that helps  

me to plan ahead is to create a list this is  so helpful not only helps me to keep track of  

what I have at home as well it helps me to reduce  my trips to the store and the time that I spend  

at the store as well it helps me to decrease  my food waste this is a win-win please check  

the links below they do have more information  about meal planning and other great resources.  

Let me show you how I save money on foods this  week and having nutritious foods at the same time,  

for fruits and vegetables I did buy what was in  season which tends to be the cheapest and tastiest  

this week I bought peaches and  cucumbers of course bananas and celeries  

there always tend to be pretty accessible.

Speaking about fruits and vegetables farmer  market season is open you can go to the farmers  

market and double your money there to buy great  produce here's how. You go to the farmer's market  

information booth with your P-EBT they  will swipe your card and they will give  

you tokens to spend on the farmers market you  will also receive an additional free ten dollars  

called "Double your Bucks" to spend on fruits and  vegetables eating healthy fruits and vegetables  

also keeps your body strong to fight off illness  which is especially important during the COVID-19.  

Back to MyPlate for Grains, tortillas are my go-to  source I of course always pick the cheapest ones  

but I make sure I have my whole grains and that is  the case because corn tortillas are whole grains  

which provides more nutrients for  you. For Protein, I say yes to beans.  

I did pay $1.79 for my dry beans they will last  me for a few meals cheap and nutritious and let  

me share my save money on meat trick, I always  look on the quick meat sell section at the store.  

Eggs as well are a protein source, I paid  this week $1.48 cents per 18 eggs that is 12  

cents per egg. Another point to prove that  healthy eating doesn't have to be that expensive.

And don't forget Dairy we love yogurt in  my household and vanilla yogurt was less  

than three dollars for a family container that  will last me a couple of snacks and breakfast.  

By planning ahead and spending wisely at the  grocery store you'll be able to purchase healthy  

foods for less money using your P-EBT benefits  go ahead and check the status of your P-EBT and  

get the most benefit from it and don't forget to  check in the other resources that we have for you.  

Take care and don't forget make  the healthy choice the easy choice.