Get more from your Eat Well benefits

When you’re living with a chronic condition, food can play an important role in managing your health—but figuring out what to eat while sticking to a budget isn’t always easy.

As part of the Eat Well program, you receive $80 each month to spend on fruits and vegetables. If you’re struggling to make the most of that benefit, working with a registered dietitian can help you figure out practical ways to eat well, manage your health, and stretch your grocery budget.

Your dietitian will work with the foods you like, your budget, your culture, and your everyday life. There’s no one-size-fits-all meal plan.

We recommend at least 8 appointments so you have time to learn what works for you, try it at home, and get help with challenges along the way.

What can a dietitian help with?

Together, you can work on:

• Making your $80 monthly produce benefit go further
• Planning affordable, balanced meals that you and your family will actually enjoy
• Managing blood sugar and supporting heart health
• Shopping for healthy foods on a budget
• Understanding carbohydrates, sodium, fiber, fats, and food labels
• Finding simple ways to eat more fruits and vegetables
• Cooking meals that you and your family actually enjoy
• Planning meals around your schedule
• Eating out and enjoying holidays and special occasions
• Sorting through confusing nutrition advice

What Happens at Appointments?

At your first visit, your dietitian will get to know you—your health, the foods you like, your budget, your routine, and what’s challenging right now.

At future visits, you’ll focus on the things that matter most to you. That might mean planning what to buy with your grocery benefit, finding affordable meals, understanding your blood sugar, reading food labels, or figuring out what to cook for dinner.

You’ll have time between appointments to try things out, and then you and your dietitian can adjust the plan together.

You don’t need to know what to eat before you come. That’s what we’re here to help with.