Colleges of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences and Family & Consumer Sciences
UGA Cooperative Extension
Holiday Food
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The 2008 Holiday Food Special Section offers tips to help you plan your holiday menu and maximize your time over the next few weeks. |
Read the news releases on Georgia FACES:
- Put a tasty turkey on the table this Thanksgiving
- Remembering troops with treats at the holidays
- Cooking with kids
- Don't wait too long to enjoy holiday leftovers
- Take the holidays but leave the turkey
- Holiday season more than meat
- Holiday meal tips: Lose extra fat, salt, sugar
- Time for turkey thawing, selection tips
Paramount Pumpkins
For the past two years, Matthew Adams of Carroll, Co., has won the Georgia 4-H Pumpkin Growing Contest. This year's 468-pound pumpkin came in lighter than the record-setting 580.8-pound pumpkin (shown) he grew last year.
For more information about the Georgia 4-H statewide annual pumpkin contest, read the news release.
Living Well
Protect yourself and your children from diabetes
If you had gestational diabetes during pregnancy, you and your child have a greater risk for developing Type 2 diabetes later in life. For more information, read the article.
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Current News Releases
- Drought tightens its grip on north Georgia • November 13, 2008
- Pink hibiscus mealybug found in north Georgia • November 13, 2008
- Gifts for the gardener on your list • November 13, 2008
- Childhood food allergies a serious concern • October 30, 2008
- Cooking class teaches about cancer • October 23, 2008
- 4-H’ers treat elderly to fall festival • October 23, 2008
- Today's pumpkins not just basketballs • October 16, 2008
- UGA distance diagnostics system saves time, money • October 9, 2008


