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Collective Kitchen/Baby Food Making

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Summary of the Initiative

Our goal is to help families consume more fruits and vegetables in their everyday diets and cook healthy meals. We teach the nutritional values that fruits and vegetables hold, how to best cook with them and how preserve or store them. We focus on strengthening the families that we work with and this is one of the many ways that we help them to feel valued as parents.

Challenges

Very time consuming, funding for part-time worker

Sucesses

Families are learning new ways of cooking and consuming more healthy foods. Families are feeling supported and thankful that this initiative is available and helps eliminate some of the stresses in their lives.

Traditional Knowledge

Through story telling, supporting ones values, traditions and knowledge as they share with one another. Sharing traditional food when it’s available and learning new traditions as they are being taught about cooking, planting and consuming healthy food.

Lead Organization

  • Healthy Foods for Children and Youth Funds
Other Groups / Organizations
  • Public Health, dietician, nutritionist: come and deliver information for the groups on the benefits of healthy eating, like healthy teeth, brains, bodies etc.
  • Wellness workers: teach about traditional values, stories, traditions etc
Primary Goals

  • Our program is strength based and so we promote healthy eating, cooking and living through teaching about the nutritious values of fruits and vegetables. To support and empower them while teaching them about healthy eating and cooking. To help families to be the best parents that they can be and lessen some of the stresses that they face in everyday life. To help them to gain value in the healthy choices of food that their family consumes and in themselves as parents.

Funding

  • Short term (up to 1 year)