Table 1.

NU-HOME study program intervention session components

Month	Session Type	Topics Covered	Parent Group (40 minutes)	Child Group (40 minutes)
1: Let’s get Started	In-person Group	•Program goals and goal setting •Benefits and strategies for family meals •How to make positive family meals •Cooking skills •Family physical activity – line dancing •Highlight a community resource	•Benefits to family meals discussion •Barriers and strategies for family meals •Goal setting discussion	•Knife skills demonstration and practice •Making a salad activity •Brainstorming ideas for family meal discussion topics
Online augmentation session
Telephone call		•Family and individual goals
2: Think Outside the Box	In-person Group	•Components of a healthful meal (MyPlate) •Meal planning strategies •Shopping strategies to save money and promote meal planning •Cooking skills •Family physical activity –wheel of warm-up •Highlight a community resource	•Meal planning •Shopping strategies for buying healthful foods •Planning in advance for left-overs	•Peeling demonstration and practice •MyPlate discussion and meal planning activity •Kids role in shopping
Online augmentation session
3: Balance, Balance, Keep the Balance	In-person Group	•Food labels and meal planning •Portion size versus serving size •Eating healthfully away from home •Basic cooking skills •Family physical activity – team hustle •Highlight a community resource	•Label reading •Using nutrition information for eating out •Portion sizes versus serving sizes •Strategies to decrease portion sizes	•Portion sizes vs serving size •Portion size and common object matching •Food labels •Prepare a fruit parfait
Online augmentation session
Telephone call		•Family and individual goals
4: Power Down to Power up	In-person Group	•Reducing screen time and increasing positive conversations at meals •Increasing physical activity as a family •Healthful snacking •Family physical activity – garbage ball game •Highlight a community resource	•Strategies to decrease screen time and increase family physical activity •Fat and sugar in common snacks •Strategies to limit unhealthy snacks and ideas for healthful snack foods	•Strategies to decrease screen time and increase family physical activity •Measuring fat and sugar in common snacks •Strategies to limit unhealthy snacks and ideas for healthful snack foods
Online augmentation session
5: Less Sugar – A sweet deal	In-person Group	•Increase physical activity as a family •Decrease sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) •Family physical activity – yoga •Highlight a community resource	•Goals for family physical activity •Sugar in beverages matching game •Strategies to reduce SSB intake and rehydrate	•Family physical activity •Sugar in beverages matching game •Alternatives to SSs and taste testing
Online augmentation session
Telephone call		•Family and individual goals
6: “Agreenable” meals and snacks	In-person Group	•Increasing FV availability at home •Eat more FV each day •Family physical activity – 2 × 2 fitness •Highlight a community resource	•Increasing home FV availability •Increasing FV served at meals and snacks	•Identify FV from every color of the rainbow •Taste test FV •Make a fruit kabob
Online augmentation session
7: The future is bright	In-person	•Reflect on program goals •Identify changes made and maintenance •Family physical activity – charades •Highlight a community resource	•Reflect on changes made and maintenance •Brainstorm strategies to improve the healthfulness of “go-to” meals •Create family “recipe” to describe how each family was successful in making healthful changes and plans to sustain those changes	•Review of behavioral messages and cooking skills learned •Use stickers to plan a healthful meal using MyPlate “race” •Make a smoothie
Telephone call		•Follow-up on goals/maintenance