Nanaimo Community Kitchens: Workshops.

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Core Community Kitchen Cooking Groups
These are groups of 3 to 5 participants who get together to cook once a month to feed themselves and their families. Everyone shares in the recipe selection, shopping, cooking and clean-up. You pay for the portion of food you take home.

Cooking Out of the Box
Cooking out of the Box uses a monthly Good Food Box of fruits and vegetables as the foundation of a nutritious cooking session for low income individuals.

The program is free to participants and encourages the use of fresh fruits and vegetables in a healthy diet. At each 2 hour session, 3 to 4 recipes are prepared using the contents of the Good Food Box, which varies from month to month. The Community Kitchens facilitator chooses the recipes, purchases a Good Food Box for each location and the extra food needed to prepare the recipes. The sessions ends with a shared meal, group discussion and clean up. Participants receive copies of the recipes and extra food is divided among the clients to take home.

Thanks to funding from the United Way Central Island, we offer the program at three locations:

Foodshare Center, 271 Pine St
Women's Center, 285 Selby St
Princess Royal Family Center, 360 Irwin St

Sessions are free but limited in space. Please phone Anita at 753-7470 for more information, or email: anita.nck@shaw.ca

Low Cost Cooking for Health
A weekly cooking session using typical contents of the survival bag handout from Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank as the basis of meals. Participants are involved in the choice of recipes and take home servings of each recipe to feed their families. Participants receive their bag handout in addition to the prepared meals. By using inexpensive fresh foods in addition to the food bank handout items, participants learn to make the best use of food resources. There is no cost to participants and child minding is available. The program runs at Princess Royal Family Center on Wednesday morningss from 9:30-12:30. This program is a partnership with Loaves and Fishes Food Bank, Vancouver Island Health Authority, The City of Nanaimo, and Community Kitchens.

For more information, call Anita at 753-7470 or
Email: Anita.nck@shaw.ca

Nanaimo Community Kitchens is at
271 Pine St., Nanaimo, BC V9R 2B7
Phone: 250.753.7470

Anita.nck@shaw.ca