Sola Life & Fitness/Clawson Farmers Market nutrition seminar for parents

Looking for healthy school lunch options to pack for your children? Sola Life & Fitness, Beaumont Health System’s medically based fitness center in Rochester Hills, will present parents with a healthy eating seminar and cooking demonstration at the Clawson Farmers Market on Sunday, Sept. 30, at 12:30 p.m.

The free seminar will provide information on what makes a lunch healthy, the benefits of nutritious lunches for children and how to teach kids to make better food choices. It also will include a question and answer session. The cooking demonstration will teach parents how to prepare a healthy, quick and delicious packed lunch containing fresh Michigan apples and other produce readily available at themarket.

Stephanie Vella, RD, will lead this seminar. Vella has a bachelor’s degree in dietetics from Michigan State University and is an expert on childhood nutrition, meal planning for families and local food. She also is available for one-on-one nutrition counseling at Sola, where she creates dietary roadmaps to help clients prevent and manage conditions including diabetes, heart disease, gluten intolerance and more.

The Clawson Farmers Market, located at Clawson Park, 1030 N. Custer Ave., Clawson, MI 48017, runs Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. through September 30. Vella’s seminar will be held in the Clawson Park pavilion.