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Virtual Gathering Place: Compilation of Ideas on Indigenous Foods and Practices
In early April, schools across Canada joined our Virtual Gathering Place, an online platform where they could share their successes and challenges in incorporating Indigenous foods and practices into breakfast and other meal programming. Participants also touched on ways to honour the values and communities of the tradutional territories within which their programs operate. Three main topics were covered: challenges and solution; cultural practices and interconnectedness of food, and recipe sharing.
Successes
There were many challenges shared, ranging from time and space within the school community to prepare meals, to food safety regulations and student preferences. However, along with these came many innovative solutions:
Cultural Practices, Language and Interconnectedness of Foods and Culture
Using language, valuing togetherness and honouring the ceremony around eating can be great solutions for representing Indigenous ways of knowing and being in your breakfast program. Schools shared with us how they bring singing, language, art and communities together with school events, announcements and classes.
Many schools are limited in time or resources to incorporate Indigenous foods into their daily breakfast program. Hosting a community-wide meal is one idea for incorporating traditional foods and practices. Involving members of the community to help cook foods like bannock or salmon soup is a great way to get the positive energy going. Other school events, like Métis Week or Indigenous Celebration Day, can also be used to get students to try traditional foods and talk about their heritage and families. Some schools hold outdoor cookouts, where students can make bannock on a stick over an open fire, and teachers and community members can share their specialties, like fishing, and harvesting and preparing wild meat. Other ways that some schools have incorporated language and cultural practices into their breakfast programs include announcing the daily breakfast menu in Cree and gathering every morning with singing, drumming and round dancing during breakfast. Another school including learning Cree for students during beading classes.
Kicking off Your Breakfast Program and Recipe Sharing
Some easy recipe ideas to get you started: why not work wild berries into different breakfast dishes? Saskatoon berries, blueberries and other berries can be used in smoothies or parfaits, or served with bannock, pancakes or oatmeal. Fresh summer berries can be preserved by making compote or jam to enjoy all year round.
Bannock can also be served in many ways, including breakfast pizza, breakfast sandwiches, breakfast tacos, French toast or with chili and stew. Try using a blend of whole wheat and white flour, or adding oats or ground oat flour to your bannock, to increase its nutritional value.
Some other ideas:
The Virtual Gathering Place was a part of our dedication to supporting each program’s unique reality, in this case, the focus on an Indigenous worldview. It was also a way to participate in reconciliation. We hope to continue developing our support for traditional and Indigenous foods and to provide more resources for our schools. We are grateful to have learned from the over 160 schools in attendance.
Coordinator, Programs (Montreal area)
Breakfast Club of Canada is currently looking to hire a Programs Coordinator in the Montreal area. Reporting to the Programs Advisor, the Programs Coordinator will work closely with schools and community partners to help them achieve high quality breakfast programs, specifically as it pertains to program management, healthy and culturally appropriate meal preparation, nutritional education and positive socialization. This person will also work to engage the community in the Club and its mission by leveraging local social assets.
Breakfast Club of Canada promotes employment equity and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals.
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Please email your resume and cover letter to CV@breakfastclubcanada.org.
Only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview.
Thank You to our Breakfast Champions!
From May 16 to June 16, 2022, over 3,000 breakfast programs from across the country are invited to join Breakfast Club of Canada’s Breakfast in Unison to celebrate the outstanding work of the volunteers and school teams who devote their time and energy to ensure everything runs smoothly and children can get a healthy start to the day.
In the weeks leading up to these celebrations, schools and community organizations were asked to nominate a Breakfast Champion whose drive and determination are vital to their program. The result: over a hundred nominees from coast to coast to coast!
A special thank-you to all our Breakfast Champions from everyone here at BCC for what you do, day in and day out, for the next generation.
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Manitoba
New Brunswick
Northwest Territories
Ontario
Quebec
Saskatchewan
No Bake Breakfast Cookies
These no-bake cookies can be customized to include any extra toppings of your choice!
Serves: 16 | Prep Time: 5 mins | Total Time: 15 mins + 1hr chilling time
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For more delicious recipes, check out the Club’s cookbook!
Building Ties in the Community
On this National Volunteer Week, I am very pleased to share with you this new CEO Blog series. As President and CEO of Breakfast Club of Canada, I am committed to forging strong ties with the community, always with the objective of continuing to help children across the country reach their full potential.
The well-being of children, whether it be those affected by poverty, social exclusion, food insecurity and anything in between. has been and continues to be of the utmost importance in guiding my actions both in my personal and professional life. When I joined Breakfast Club of Canada over three years ago, I was determined to ensure that the Club not only continues to expand its reach across the country, but also build its relationships with the communities we serve, as the daily contribution of volunteers and members of the community is essential to the success of organizations like ours.
Today, I would like to invite you to explore the possibility of giving your time, volunteering in the community.
If there’s anything that I’ve learned in the 40 years I have worked in the community sector, it’s that there is always a need for more support. During this National Volunteer Week, we can all look at the various ways in which we can become more involved in our respective communities.
It can be as simple as gathering information on local organizations that operate in our area and how we can get involved with them. Those who volunteer their time with organizations in their neighbourhoods often gain great satisfaction from the experience, as they see how simple it is to make a concrete difference in the lives of those around them.
Another great way to get involved locally is by offering our help at local schools and participating in regional events. We can join a mentorship program and become a positive influence for the youth in our neighbourhood. Or perhaps spend time with those more isolated who would appreciate the company.
Another critically important action is to spread the word with our surroundings on causes that are important to us and to encourage others to get involved. Awareness always plays a key role for so many organizations and having people on the ground who share causes they care about can help increase notoriety within the community.
When it comes to volunteering, every action counts. It is an incredibly personal choice and I encourage you to experience it in your own way. I am confident that we can all make a difference in our own way, no matter what we have to offer.
Every action, big or small, makes an important difference in our local communities. I strongly believe that a life is never fully lived without the gift of self.
Have a great National Volunteer Week!
Tommy Kulczyk
Working Together for a Greener World
Created more than 50 years ago, Earth Day is now celebrated by over 1 billion people around the world. Together, they strive to raise public awareness and take action on a number of pressing issues affecting our planet. Climate change and environmental degradation are undoubtedly the greatest threats to humanity in the 21st century.
Breakfast Club of Canada is proud to work with a number of partners who are committed to finding solutions to these critical challenges.
Trudeau Corporation: Reusable containers
Trudeau Corporation has been a BCC partner since 2020, when the pandemic broke out. In order to comply with the public health restrictions in place at the time, new approaches were introduced for serving breakfast to students, most of which were centred on individually packaged food products.
But Trudeau Corporation had a more planet-friendly solution in mind: they donated 5,000 reusable sandwich boxes to 45 breakfast programs in Quebec and Ontario.
You can read the full blog article here.
Still Good: Fighting food waste
Still Good is a leading advocate of reducing global food waste. By teaming up with BCC, they are helping not only to feed children but also to rescue surplus food that would otherwise be thrown away.
Still Good gives a second life to nutritious ingredients, such as malted barley residue, and fruit and vegetable pulp, by upcycling them into delicious breakfast cookies that provide children with the energy they need to learn.
See how this process works here.
West Coast Seeds: Growing food for growing children
The people at West Coast Seeds are known for their green thumb and their high-quality products. They sell and ship hundreds of varieties of plant, vegetable, flower and other seeds across the country.
Since 2020, they have been doing their part for the next generation by donating a portion of the sales of select products to Breakfast Club of Canada. So as they are encouraging more Canadians to get out and get gardening, they are also helping to provide an equal chance of success to thousands of children from coast to coast to coast.
MicroHabitat: Making a difference, one plant at a time
MicroHabitat specializes in transforming urban rooftops and other spaces into nourishing gardens.
They help build sustainable food systems in urban communities, parks and schools, where children can learn about the rewards of growing their own food.
They are proud to offer financial support to Breakfast Club of Canada through the sale of MicroHabitat pots — a wonderful way to green up our cities while making sure more children get a healthy start to their day.
For more partner-led initiatives, click here.