Featured Nutrition Content
Tips for Packing a Balanced Lunch
Mediterranean Meal Planning from Wondr Health
Download this special meal planning resoure that includes a Mediterranean grocery guide, tip sheet, and four recipes.
Mindful Eating
Mindful eating is an approach to eating that uses all the senses to experience and enjoy the food you eat. The goal of mindful eating is to tune into your body's signals of hunger and fullness without judgment.
liveWELL Eat Well Cookbook
Explore cooking and preparing healthy meals at home with liveWELL's Eat Well cookbook series.
- First Edition: Recipes and Healthy Eating Tips
- Second Edition: Seasonal Recipes
Healthy Eating Around the World
Healthy eating looks different for everyone and is not a one-size-fits-all. Your favorite cultural foods can be part of a healthy eating pattern.
- Oldways: An extensive recipe collection from different world cuisines and flavors that honor one’s heritage.
- Platillos Latinos. ¡Sabrosos y Saludables! Delicious Heart Healthy Latino Recipes.
- Soul Food Makeover-Heart Healthy African American Recipes
- Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Celebrate a World of Flavors Tip Sheets
Campus Resources
- A liveWELL Health Coach can help you get started towards healthy eating habits and wellness goals.
- The Diabetes Prevention Program offers a full year of support in healthy lifestyle changes.
- The 12-Week Lifestyle Change Program (Wondr Health) is an online behavior change platform.
- UChoose is a hospital nutrition program to identify healthy food options on campus.
- University Hospitals and Clinics Food and Nutrition Services have daily menus posted with healthy, UChoose-approved items identified.
Local Food Pantry Information
Food accessibility and affordability is very important to survive, maintain a healthy lifestyle, and to be able to focus at work and in school. An estimated 8.2% of Johnson County residents, including over 10% of children, are food insecure and lack consistent access to adequate food. (Source: Johnson County Iowa Public Health, 2022)
- Community Food Resources - List of local food banks in the Iowa City, Coralville, and North Liberty Areas.
- Free Meal Map – Johnson County, Iowa - Food and meals are available at area schools, food banks, and soup kitchens in the Iowa City area.
- UI Food Pantry - The food pantry is a free service available for ANY student, staff, or faculty member at the University of Iowa. If you are not in need of food, there are also ways to support UI Food Pantry.