About Nutra-Net

Nutra-Net is a pioneer in developing effective nutrition and cooking programs for children and adults of all ages. Nutra-Net was founded by Peggy Hausheer, CFCS with a team of other Home Economists and Registered Dietitians with the common vision of making cooking fun and easy for all families.

Lisa Medrow, RD, LD has been teaching families and children how to incorporate sound nutrition practices for 15 years. After completing a Coordinated Program in Dietetics and receiving a BS from the University of Idaho, Lisa moved to Arizona, where she worked for Yuma County WIC program and Health Department Community Nutrition programs for eight years, working with families and developing and implementing new school-based programs. Since 2004, Lisa has worked in Kansas City with Show-Me Food & Nutrition Services, Inc. and now her own consulting company, Total Nutrition Techniques (TNT). Lisa has worked with Nutra-Net since 2004, teaching cooking and nutrition classes for adults and children, writing curricula, and serving a variety of administrative functions. Outside of work, Lisa loves to cruise with her husband and scrapbook with her friends!

We've been serving the Kansas City community for nearly 28 years with interactive classes that use nutritious, low-cost ingredients, and common cooking equipment. Our unique Whiz, Zip, Zap pictorial cookbook makes healthy cooking do-able and fun for people of all ages and reading abilities.

How it all began:

Twenty-Eight years ago, a small and energetic group of Home Economics professionals, Registered Dietitians and school teachers in Independence, Missouri came together to develop nutrition lessons for low-income families. Nutra-Net was the name given to the nonprofit organization that formed from their passion for assisting others in meeting basic self-sufficiency needs of food preparation and stretching scarce food dollars.

With a rapidly growing and disturbing incidence of childhood obesity, Nutra-Net staff saw this dismal situation as an opportunity to take their unique and effective programming to the children. In 1997, Nutra-Net published two curricula for children-Storytime Cooks and Whiz, Zip, & Zap It!. An accompanying pictorial cookbook is used with both programs. Over the past 10 years, these programs have been highly successful-reaching several thousand children in our community. The children's curricula have been awarded the prestigious Nutrition Action Award by the (international) Society for Nutrition Education, and were recognized by the Missouri Department of Health as "Effective in Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Among Minority Populations."