Food for Thought in the Junior School

Celebrating year of food in the classroom...

The girls have been sharing their family stories/traditions through food this year. Cultural recipes, foods that bring back memories of their Grandma, the first food they helped make...
These are photos from a lasagna feast in the classroom on November 26th!

The Story of Food

USC Canada’s new short, animated film will get you thinking about our broken food system. It identifies what’s gone wrong, and what we can do to rebuild it.

The Story Of Food from USC Canada on Vimeo.

What Can You Do?

• Think about how our food is produced and where it comes from.
• Buy local, organic, and fair trade whenever you can.
• Support small scale farmers who grow healthy food around the world.
• Make your voice heard by joining the worldwide movement to change our food system.

Together, we can build a healthy food system…for everyone! Stay tuned for more resources, information, and action alerts.

To start you thinking, here is a quote from Canadian writer and journalist Thomas Pawlick:

“Right now, if you go to the produce section of any supermarket – anyone at all – and buy fruit or vegetables, or cottage cheese, or meat, you would have to eat something like five times as much of that food to get the same amount of vitamins and minerals as your parents or grandparents got in the 1950s.”---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Story of Food might remind you of "The Story of Stuff", a clever commentary on the story of production and consumption in our world. This was something introduced a few years ago during "The Year of the Story", the Institute's first annual focus in 2005. Here it is again:

For more information on this project, visit: www.storyofstuff.org

The Institute's "Lunch n' Learn" Workshop Series - Report Back!

Peggy Kotsopoulos, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Culinary Consultant, Health Educator, and the Founder and Director of beVibrant wellness consulting, came to Havergal to speak to our community on September 25th. Since then she has joined the Institute's year-long focus on "Food for Thought" by offering 4 workshops about healthy (and creative) alternatives to some of our favorite recipes!

Below is a sample of one of the workshops that she delivered that explored the various ways we can look at and experience the "positive energy of real food". Also included below are the recipes that Peggy demonstrated in each of her workshops! Bon appétit!

***Peggy's final workshop will take place at lunchtime on Friday November 20th in the Forum for Change. If you would like to secure your spot, please email Melanie at: mmacdonald1@havergal.on.ca***

The Forum for Change: Schedule for November 2009

"There are so many ways to help improve our communities. Big or small, every step makes a difference."

The Aviva Community Fund has organized a competition to support what's important to people in Canada by helping them make a positive change in their communities. How? Through the Aviva Community Fund competition. This competition is giving people the chance to voice an idea that will create a lasting change in a community. The most popular ideas, as chosen by Canadians, will have a chance at sharing in the $500,000 Aviva Community Fund. If you check out the site, the ideas that are listed are a inspiring examples of people turning their ideas into action...

Here is the link:
Aviva Community Fund