The Food First working group held the pilot Food First Community Cook Along event on Wednesday, Oct. 2, bringing together students and staff volunteers to cook and share a meal. From left are Physics master’s student Rachit Kapoor, third-year Business Administration student Ketsia Mallaud and first-year student Jiyu Wang with Faith and Life Assistant Chaplain Hilda VanderKlippe. A group of students and staff recently gathered to cook and share a meal at the pilot Food First Community Cook Along event.
Organized by the Food First working group, the event took place on Wednesday, Oct. 2 and saw participants spend the evening discussing healthy recipes and ways to make the most of their grocery budgets while also cooking a vegetarian chili and lentil loaf. After sharing the meal together, students were also able to take home extra portions to stock their fridges and freezers.
The next Food First Community Cook Along will take place from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 18, during Brock’s International Education Week, in the staff lounge on the second floor of the International Centre. Tickets for the event are $5 and students will need to register in advance to attend. Information on this and other Food First events can be found on ExperienceBU.
A partnership between the Brock University Students’ Union, Graduate Students’ Association and Brock University, the Food First program provides students in need with emergency grocery store gift cards and connections to food security community resources and programming.
Financial donations to support the events can made online. Donations can be allocated to the program by selecting “Other” from the “Please select the designation of your gift” drop down and specifying Community Cook Along in the text box below.
