Resources
Your go-to resource for information about food and nutrition. Trusted resources, useful maps, delicious recipes, and more!
COVID-19 Resources
- Stay up to date on UCLA’s CPO Food Closet resources.
- Use this food storage guide from the Santa Monica Farmers Markets to learn how to store fruits & vegetables to make them last longer
- Check out CPO’s Basic Needs Resource Guide for resources around food, housing, financial, transportation, wellness, etc.
- Schedule CalFresh Office Hours for assistance applying for CalFresh
- Check out Serious Eats’s comprehensive guide on food safety and coronavirus
- Sign up for a Virtual Cooking Class like Alternative Baking and Plant-Based Life through UCLA Rec!
Food Security Resources
- For immediate relief, check out the following on and off campus resources:
- You can take this helpful self-assessment to determine if you are experiencing food insecurity.
- CPO Food Closet: Student Activities Center 111 | M-F 8am-6pm
- 580 Café: Wesley Foundation serving UCLA, 580 Café @ 580 Hilgard (St. Alban’s Church) | M-Th 9am-6pm, F 9am-3pm; 310.909.4471
- UCLA Meal Vouchers: Distribution Locations at BRC, Dashew Center, CPO, LGBT Center; ecr@saonet.ucla.edu.
- Email the UCLA Economic Crisis Response Team at ecr@saonet.ucla.edu
- Talk to the UCLA Financial Wellness Program at financialwellness@saonet.ucla.edu
- Dial 211: Community food banks and resources
- Visit the LA Food Bank
- You may also be eligible to receive CalFresh. For all student and staff inquiries on applying for CalFresh, please email UCLACalFresh@gmail.com to set-up an appointment to discuss eligibility
- UCLA and HCI are working hard to reduce food insecurity on campus. Click here to learn more about our efforts.
- For immediate relief, check out the following on and off campus resources:
Good Food for Local Schools
This website, a project of the University of California Office of the President’s Global Food Initiative, offers a toolkit of curated practical online resources to guide higher education institutions and other educational and community organizations, who work with pre-K-12 schools, to support student access to healthy and sustainable food.
EatWell Pod Library Resource Guide
- Click here to take a look at a research guide put together by UCLA Librarian Julie Kwan to find out more about some of the recommendations, data/research, and organizations associated with the EatWell pod!
Campus Food and Nutritional Information
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- Check out Westwood Farmers Markets on Thursdays 12 – 5 pm.
- Find menus and nutritional information for UCLA Dining on the Hill.
- Can’t make it to the dining hall, or need something special? Check out the award-winning programs operated by UCLA Dining.
- Learn how UCLA Dining’s Nutrition Education Coordinator can help.
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Student Wellness Guides
- Browse articles and recipes in the Eat section of the Student Health 101 Magazine
- Check out the RISE (Resilience in the Student Experience) offerings!
- EatWell Library Research Guide: This custom library research guide was created by UCLA Librarian Julie Kwan for the EatWell pod!
Food, Climate Change & Sustainability
- Climate Change 101
- Want to know more about climate change, how it affects us, and what the UCLA Health System is doing about it? Read this article by Dr. Dana Hunnes, Senior Dietitian at the Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center for more information, including the answers to these questions!
- The UC Global Food Initiative
- Learn about what the UC is doing to addresses one of the critical issues of our time: How to sustainably and nutritiously feed a world population expected to reach eight billion by 2025.
- Browse GFI reports and resources
- Eating for the Planet
- Use this EatWell “How-To” Guide to Sustainable Cooking as your trusty companion when cooking with the planet in mind.
- Learn the basics of how you can eat in a way that protects our planet in this guide, and this report published by EAT LANCET that prioritizes planetary health and human health. Plus, read up about food and other topics on the Green Living Guide provided by UCLA Sustainability.
- Learn about Food Waste
- The average two-person household spends $68 per week on food that never gets eaten! Wondering what you can do to save money and protect the environment against food waste? Check out our newest infographic!
- Climate Change 101
Our Favorite Food Films
- Check out here, a list curated by the EatWell pod. It includes our favorite food documentaries, video clips, and films by UCLA students.
Resources For Families
- USDA’s 2015 Dietary Guidelines
- Here’s an overview of what’s new and what you should know about the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Report.
- View the slides created by Choose Health LA Kids
- Find healthy, affordable recipes:
- Affordable meal plans with Budget Bytes
- Plant-based, health-minded recipes made accessible, fresh, and delicious!
- Explore tips from First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign about diet and nutrition for healthy families.
- Have little loved ones in school? Find nutritional information for many school districts here.
- Are you a breastfeeding mother? UCLA offers lactation rooms for your privacy and convenience
- USDA’s 2015 Dietary Guidelines
