Nutrition Week

Every March the Food for Thought celebrates Nutrition month by hosting a weeks worth of events for students to participate in.

2023 Nutrition Week had three events going on between March 27 and 31. To kick off the week, 400 students at the Lethbridge campus picked up Buy a Student a Breakfast coupons and Calgary students had the opportunity to pick up Tim Hortons gift cards. There was also a booth fair called the Growing Student Well-being Fair where students could learn about different student services, plant a vegetable seedlings, paint a pot for their soon to be growing plant; and create buttons with equipment from the Agility zone. To wrap up the week there was a Lunch & Learn where students received a free bowl of vegetarian soup and fresh baked role, which was collaboratively hosted by Food for Thought, Chartwells, and Dr. Marc Bomhof.

2024 Nutrition Week had three events going on between March 18 and 22. To kick off the week, two Work2Learn students presented a Food Literacy Workshop at the Lethbridge and Calgary campuses. There was lunch provided to all students who attended and their topic was Healthy Eating Made Simple. Later in the week there was another booth fair called Spring Fest where there was cookie decorating, free fruit and refreshments, vegetable seedlings to plant, pots to paint, and free tote bags. Additionally, there was 260 Buy a Student a Breakfast coupons distributed on the Lethbridge campus during Spring Fest and 75 coupons were given to Calgary campus students. To wrap up the week the Lethbridge Food Bank stopped by for their monthly event with their mobile delivery service to hand out free non-perishables and produce to the community.

2025 Nutrition Week had two exciting events on March 18 and 20. To kick off the week, we hosted our first cooking class in collaboration with Interfaith Foodbank, followed by a 30-minute food literacy workshop titled "Keeping it Fresh: Making Better Choices for You, Your Wallet, and the Earth”. Later in the week we hosted a nutrition week fair and students enjoyed seeds & soil activities, pot painting, fresh produce giveaways, free lunch and breakfast coupons and more!