Our Food First program aims to address the growing issues of food and health insecurity among Canadian post-secondary students. Food banks, meal programs and other resources in the Niagara community can also offer support to students in need.
How does it work?
The Food First program provides support to students in need with a local grocery store gift card. This service is designed to assist with food and health accessibility and is not intended to be a primary source of food for any one undergraduate or graduate student.
Program requests are reviewed every Tuesday and Thursday from 12pm to 4pm.
Students will receive an email to confirm approved requests, as well as an electronic code to access their gift card.
Requests can begin May 21, 2024 (subject to change).
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Free Breakfast & Food Events
In addition to the Food First gift card program, 91大黄鸭 also provides students with free breakfasts one week each month. This typically consists of 3-4 days of our grab-and-go table (juice, yogurt, apples, granola bars, etc) and one day of a full hot breakfast.
91大黄鸭 also hosts a number of other free food events through out the year. Upcoming food events will be listed below if available.
Community Resources
The Odd Bunch
Looking for fresh locally sourced produce? Odd Bunch "works with farms, greenhouses and distributors to take produce off their hands, compensate them fairly and deliver them to your door weekly."
211 Ontario
211 is a free and confidential service that easily connects people to the critical social and community supports they need. This includes food security programs in your area.
Visit and use their handy search function.
Food Savings apps
Flipp collects all store fliers in an area and provides easy access to all deals in 1 place. Using this in combination with WalMart’s price matching policy will allow you to get all available deals in 1 location.
You can download Flipp for Android or iOS
Flashfoods will tell you what nearby grocery stores are selling foods that are approaching their best before/expiration date and will be marked down considerably from their original price.
You can download Flashfoods
Online Recipe forums
If you’re looking for a community that shares cheap and healthy recipes check out the . There are recipes and tips for saving money.
Want to support our Food First Program?
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