How to Teach Cooking to Kids

April 16, 2012

Cooking with children can definitely be a challenge.  For parents whose time is already stretched, it may simply seem easier to prepare  food as quickly as possible, without the help of often messy and chubby-fingered children.  But, as Julie Negrin states, “Culinary education is one of the most effective strategies we can use to combat the childhood obesity epidemic. Hands-on activities such as cooking are powerful ways to transmit healthy habits to children.”

Julie Negrin is a certified nutritionist and cooking instructor.  Her free e-booklet How to Teach Cooking to Kids offers many good tips for parents who want to find creative ways to give their children food skills.  Check it out!

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Growing a Green Community: EcoSource

April 4, 2012

In September 2011, as part of the School Food and Beverage Policy, Ontario’s new nutrition standards to provide students with healthier menu options came into effect. For Ontario-based environmental education organization, EcoSource, this added yet another incentive to bring healthy, local food into schools. Since 1979, EcoSource has strived to support Ontario youth and their families a they take action for sustainable communities.

In November 2006, EcoSource, with support from the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation, launched its Youth and Local Food Program in Ontario’s Peel Region to link Ontario youth to the local food system by providing hands-on education on farms and in the classroom. When it became clear the processing sector was the limiting factor in the flow from field to table, EcoSource set out to recruit and work with processors to create new snacks using local ingredients.

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Changing the Recipe: An Eat-In Ontario Story

March 12, 2012

Changing the Recipe: An Eat-In Ontario Story, FoodShare,  from FoodShed on Vimeo.

Would you like to organize an Eat-In event?

Narrated by: Emily Simone, Lauren Baker, Samuel Baker, Ka’ren Feder, Meridith Hayes, Brooke Ziebell, Katie German, and Justin Nadeau
Produced by: Talia Lane and Emily Simone
Music by: Lauretta Deviato

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It’s Crunch Time!

January 25, 2012

Join students across Canada in taking one big synchronized bite towards healthy living and healthy eating. Last year’s 112,352 participants made the loudest coordinated crunch yet!

FoodShare’s annual Great Big Crunch invites students and teachers to learn about healthy eating and local and global food systems while following the journey from the apple seed to the harvest, to the market and to the core.

On Thursday, March 8th, run the Great Big Crunch in your classroom and enhance your students’ understanding of the food system through the journey of an apple from seed to table. Distribute the apples to your students and on your count, have the whole class take a Great Big Crunch together at 2:30pm E.S.T! To take part, simply fill out the registration form and fax it back to 416.363.0474, Attention: Brooke Ziebell, Field to Table Schools.

You can Download FoodShare’s Great Big Crunch classroom activities, available online, or develop your own. To share your apple activities or photos with others, please forward them onto us at thegreatbigcrunch@foodshare.net.

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Farm to Cafeteria Conference In BC

January 24, 2012

Are you interested in changing the future of food in cafeterias? Check out the upcoming Farm to Cafeteria Conference this March in Richmond BC. Space is limited. Last year’s conference sold out in two weeks so sign up soon if you’re interested!

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Recipe for Change

September 28, 2011

by FoodShare Toronto

What’s one of the reasons FoodShare believes we should Vote On Food?

Having food literacy education and good food in schools helps students to not only do better in school, but helps them form healthy food habits for life.

How children eat when they’re young lays the foundation for life-long patterns.

FoodShare’s Recipe for Change initiative is working to mobilize policy makers, students, educators and key decision makers to help actively integrate cooking, gardening, composting, nutrition and food literacy into provincial curriculum and school practice from JK to grade 12.

We want to improve the health of Ontario children by changing the grade 12 Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) to include food literacy, so that all students learn how to make healthy food choices, access at least one healthy meal a day at school, and increase their physical activity through gardening, cooking, and composting at school.

Recipe for Change calls on supporters to enliven food literacy education in classrooms and school communities across Ontario through the delivery of hands on workshops, activities, events and more.

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