A Model for Healthy Food in Ontario Schools: FoodShare’s Good Food Café

FoodShare, Good Food Cafe, Toronto, ON, GreenFuse photography / FoodShare, Good Food Café (Café à la bonne bouffe), Toronto, Ont., GreenFuse Photography

Photo: Laura Berman, Greenfuse Photography

Good healthy food for all – this is the mandate in which FoodShare bases all of their work. Working with communities and schools since 1985 to deliver healthy food and food education, FoodShare has a number of projects and initiatives that work to increase access to affordable high-quality fresh food. Alvin Rebick, Kitchen and Good Food Program Senior Manager, talked with us about FoodShare’s Good Food Café in particular, which has grown in various forms since it began as a pilot project 5 years ago, with the concept to reanimate school food and school cafeterias. By working with a variety of stakeholders, including nutritionists and dietitians, they set out to be a responsible model for introducing healthy food in Ontario schools – something some schools were desperate for, especially after the new School Food and Beverage Policy (PPM 150) was introduced in 2011.

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Sustain Ontario
By Josie Di Felice
January 19, 2015

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