Dining with Diabetes is a series of four classes conducted by Ohio State University Extension Family and Consumer Sciences and community health partners.

The program includes:

  • Live cooking demonstrations
  • Menu planning
  • Diabetes management
  • Carbohydrate-counting
  • Insights on portion control
  • Label-reading
  • Healthy recipe taste-testing

Diabetes costs Ohio $4.6 billion annually. According to 2015 state of Ohio data, more than 11.7% of Ohio adults have been diagnosed with diabetes — an increase of almost 37% since 2000. If these trends continue, 1 in 3 Ohioans will develop diabetes sometime in their lifetime. Those with diabetes lose an average of 10–15 years of potential life and can develop serious complications such as cardiovascular disease, blindness, kidney failure and non-traumatic lower extremity amputations.

Nutrition is the cornerstone of diabetes management, and Dining with Diabetes helps Ohioans manage their own or that of a family member’s diabetes through nutrition education. Participants learn to prepare healthy, well-balanced meals without compromising taste.

Virtual Dining with Diabetes Class.

Sign up today for a virtual Dining with Diabetes program. You will learn how to incorporate good, healthy cooking techniques and other practices to help control your blood sugar through our cooking school and nutrition education program designed for people with pre-diabetes or diabetes and their family members or caregivers.
Through this series of 4 interactive class sessions you will learn to manage your diabetes by making healthy lifestyle choices.

Future Virtual Sessions:

DATES: October 30, November 6, November 13, November 20, in 2025.

TIME: 11:00am - 1:00pm

LOCATION: Virtual

COST: It's FREE!

REGISTRATION: To register, visit go.osu.edu/virtualdwd

Virtual Dining with Diabetes Flyer

Please reach out to your Pickaway County OSU Extension Office at (740)-474-7534