FOOD LITERACY • PRACTICAL SKILLS • STRONGER FOOD SYSTEMS

Know your food. Get hands-on. Build confidence.

Food is more than what’s on the plate. It’s where it came from, who grew it, how we prepare it, what it costs, and the stories and communities connected to it.

Food Chik makes food literacy practical, engaging and accessible. Through hands-on experiences, resources, workshops and partnerships, we help children, families and communities get curious about food, build useful everyday skills and discover what good food can look like within real lives and real budgets.

Our work contributes to stronger food security and food sovereignty by helping people build the knowledge, skills and connections to understand their food and participate more confidently in the food system.

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The bigger picture

Food literacy that connects people to the bigger picture.

For people

Understand where food comes from, build practical skills, explore ingredients and make informed choices.

For organizations

Turn food goals into practical programs, resources and experiences that people can actually participate in.

For the food system

Strengthen connections between communities, producers and the organizations working to improve food security and food sovereignty.

Upcoming Event • October 17, 2026

The Local Blend

A hands on tea + spice making experience in Winnipeg.

The Local Blend brings people together around the table to taste, mix, learn, and create. Explore and learn about ingredients, herbs and spices, meet the people and stories behind the ingredients, and blend something fresh and uniquely yours to take home.

🌿 From Garden to Cup🌶️ From Garden to Jar✨ Choose tea, spice or both👨‍👩‍👧 Children welcome
DateSaturday, October 17, 2026
Time2:00 to 4:00 PM
LocationBronx Park Community Centre, Winnipeg
Capacity25 participants

Tea Experience

$55

Create your own tea blend and explore Manitoba grown and thoughtfully sourced herbs.

Spice Experience

$55

Build your own spice blend while exploring aroma, flavour and ingredient stories.

Tea + Spice

$80

Enjoy both experiences and leave with two blends of your own.

Registration closes October 14, 2026. Tickets are processed securely through Eventbrite. Space is limited to 25 participants.

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Additional event partners and sponsors will be added as they are confirmed.

Glass jars filled with dried herbs and spices for tea and spice blending
What Food Chik does

Food literacy is where stronger food systems become personal.

Food Chik turns knowledge into everyday action. We help people of all ages understand food, build practical skills and make confident food choices, and help organizations strengthen food programs and create meaningful connections to local food and their producers.

Food literacy shouldn’t live on a worksheet.

It happens when a child picks up an unfamiliar vegetable and asks, “What is this?” When a family discovers a better season to buy produce at a lower price, or a new way to prepare an ingredient so it stretches from one portion to two. When a consumer can see through food marketing labels, visualize a food’s journey from producer to plate, or when a community program finds a food activity people actually want to join.

🔎 Understand & Explore Food

Practical resources, workshops and experiences that help people explore ingredients, labels, food origins, preparation, flavour and the stories behind what we eat.

🥕 Strengthen Food Programs

Support for schools, community organizations, institutions and food programs to test ideas, improve food experiences, gather useful feedback and turn good intentions into practical action.

🌾 Connect Food & Community

Helping people and organizations build stronger connections with Manitoba producers, local food businesses and the wider food system, while exploring realistic ways to make local and real food more accessible.

How to work with Food Chik

Choose the pathway that fits what you need.

Whether you are planning programming, looking for practical food literacy experiences, building a stronger food program or exploring a food system partnership, there is a place to start.

🏫 Bring Food Chik to Your Organization

For schools, daycares, community programs, libraries, family serving organizations and institutions looking for engaging food literacy experiences.

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🍲 Explore Programs & Workshops

Practical experiences for children, youth, adults and families that build food knowledge, cooking confidence and stronger connections to real food.

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🤝 Partner With Food Chik

For producers, food companies, nonprofits, funders and food system organizations interested in pilots, local food connections, community engagement or collaborative programming.

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A Food Chik family service

Little Bites, Big Roots

School lunch support for real families and real routines.

Less time wondering what to pack, more confidence putting together lunches that work for your child. Little Bites, Big Roots offers personalized school lunch planning and practical support to make everyday food decisions easier.

Explore the independent Little Bites, Big Roots website to learn about available services, or begin with the family assessment questionnaire so we can better understand your needs.

Explore Little Bites, Big Roots ↗Take the Family Assessment ↗

A simpler way to approach school lunches

  • Personalized support for your family’s lunch routines
  • Practical ideas that reflect your child's preferences
  • Planning support to reduce daily decision fatigue
  • A quick questionnaire to help us understand your family

Little Bites, Big Roots has its own independent website. The assessment opens in Google Forms.

Food Chik resources for families

Family Meal Plans

Cereal-Proof Your Household: High Protein Breakfast Reset

↓ Digital Download · PDF

Break the cereal-only routine without adding more stress to your mornings. This practical 25-page breakfast guide helps families build flexible, repeatable morning meals around real life.

  • Family-friendly breakfast recipes and grab-and-go ideas
  • Sunday prep guidance and an organized grocery list
  • Simple ways to mix, match and adapt meals over 30 days
  • Ideas to involve children in breakfast decisions
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Cover of the Cereal-Proof Your Household High Protein Breakfast Reset Meal PlanSample page showing how to use the breakfast plan flexibly over 30 days
Food Chik Resources

Practical resources that turn food knowledge into participation.

K TO GRADE 3

The Manitoba Food Quest™

A seasonal adventure encouraging children to Find it → Taste it → Help Prepare it → Discover Where It Came From, while building connections to Manitoba food and family experiences.

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FOOD EXPLORER SERIES

Food Chik Discovery Files™

Interactive investigations that invite children to explore how a food grows, where it comes from, the people behind it, how it can be prepared and what they notice when they experience it.

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Built for communities, organizations and food programs

Bring Food Chik into the work you're already doing.

Food Chik complements existing food, cooking, community, family and school programming. We start with your audience and goals, then shape a practical resource, workshop, pilot or food system connection around what will actually work.

SchoolsDaycaresFamiliesCommunity ProgramsLibrariesFood ProgramsNonprofitsInstitutionsFood CompaniesProducers
1. Understand
Start with the program, audience and food challenge.
2. Design
Select a resource, workshop, pilot or sourcing approach.
3. Test
Run something small and practical.
4. Learn & Grow
Capture outcomes and expand what works.
Programs & Workshops

Food experiences people can participate in, not just listen to.

Food Literacy Workshops

Interactive sessions for different ages using real foods, sensory exploration, ingredient knowledge, preparation, food origins and practical everyday skills.

Community & Guest Sessions

Flexible sessions for schools, youth programs, adult groups, families, libraries, community organizations and existing cooking or food programming.

Custom Pilots & Food Program Support

Test a resource, food product, local sourcing idea or program approach with participants, gather useful feedback and learn what works before scaling.

About Food Chik

Connecting people, food programs and the food system.

Food Chik was created from a simple observation: stronger food security requires more than access to information. People need practical opportunities to understand food, build skills and make choices that work in real life, while the organizations serving communities need support to turn food goals into everyday practice.

Founded by Boma, whose background spans agriculture, food systems, producer engagement and program development, Food Chik works at the intersection of food literacy, practical implementation and stronger local food connections across generations.

Get curious. Get hands-on. Get closer to your food.
Dried herbs for teaHerbs and spicesFresh vegetables and ingredients prepared for cooking
Partnership Inquiry

Have an idea? Bring it to the table.

Planning a workshop? Rethinking a food program? Exploring local sourcing? Developing something for children or families? Looking for a community partner to help bring an idea to life?

Share a little about what you are working on. You do not need to have every detail figured out yet.

Prefer email? You can also reach Food Chik directly at foodchik44@gmail.com.

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Start small. Learn together.

Good things can start with one bite, one workshop or one conversation.

You don’t need a perfect plan to get started.

Bring us an idea, a challenge or simply a question. Together, we can turn it into something people can taste, try, learn from and build on.

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