Community Cookbook Campaign

Help us provide cookbooks to youth and community food programs

"Food is connection and connection is prevention, all are essential to
maintaining healthy environments for youth to grow."

- Kendra Benedict, Our House Youth Wellness Centre, Shelburne NS

Students in Grade 4 recently had a chance to try baking the Morning Glory Muffin recipe from the What's for Lunch? cookbook - and along the way, learned that vegetables CAN go in muffins, and that baking is fun and easy!

Donate today to help grow youth food literacy in Nova Scotia

The What’s for Lunch? cookbook is a fantastic resource for getting kids involved in cooking at home, and an excellent tool for teaching about food in schools and community settings.

Community groups have told us they’d love to use the cookbook as part of their food programming and provide youth with copies to take home, and we want to help make that possible. Your donation will help provide cookbooks at no cost to community organizations across Nova Scotia.

Donate Today

For the month of June, your donation will be doubled - up to $5,000 -
thanks to the generous support of East Coast Credit Union!

Your donation can make a difference

Scroll through the stories below to see how access to youth-friendly cookbooks can have a positive impact in youth-serving organizations across Nova Scotia.

I am currently organizing a 4-week cooking program for a group of students, focusing on building practical life skills, independence, and healthy eating habits. I am very interested in incorporating recipes from your book, What’s for Lunch?, into the program. The students will use the books during the sessions to prepare recipes, and at the end of the program, they will be able to take them home to continue benefiting from them. Your support would make a meaningful difference in helping our students gain confidence and essential life skills. - Gail DeFreitas, Child and Youth Care Practitioner, Northeast Kings Education Centre, Canning NS

Cartoon illustration of a school bus with children picking apples from a tree.

The Food for Focus program currently supports a group of 16 families, including almost 60 children, with food delivered on Friday mornings to support their food insecurity over the weekend. We know that some of these individuals have limited cooking skills so it would be beneficial if copies of your cookbook could be included in our families' support packages. We already know from first-hand youth responses that supplies for pizza are a favourite menu item, and they enjoy getting to make the pizzas themselves with their families. We would like to build on this enthusiasm to help families learn to cook more recipes, and having familiar items from the school food menu will help with this as well. – Pamela Canning, Food for Focus, Westville NS

Help us provide cookbooks to youth and community food programs

"Food is connection and connection is prevention, all are essential to maintaining healthy environments for youth to grow."

Donate today to help grow youth food literacy in Nova Scotia

For the month of June, your donation will be doubled - up to $5,000 - thanks to the generous support of East Coast Credit Union!

Your donation can make a difference

"Food is connection and connection is prevention, all are essential to
maintaining healthy environments for youth to grow."

For the month of June, your donation will be doubled - up to $5,000 -
thanks to the generous support of East Coast Credit Union!