Let is teach you how to Eat.

Our food literacy program fosters your family’s knowledge, attitudes and skills about food, through a variety of age-appropriate meal planning and preparing tasks designed to shape your understandings of connections between food, health and wellbeing; selecting nutritious foods; and deducing what constitutes a healthy diet. 

At the Playroom, you can expect multiple opportunities to get involved in activities such as:

wash and add ingredients into a bowl.

help gather ingredients, mix things, mash soft ingredients like bananas.

set the table, use a kid-safe kitchen knife to cut tofu, soft fruits, and cooked vegetables.

crack and beat an egg, use basic equipment like a blender or can opener.

involved in simple cooking steps like stirring and measuring ingredients, or setting the table.

use a child-safe knife with supervision to cut cooked meat, prepare a fruit or vegetable platter

use the stove top with assistance.

follow more complex recipes,

practice being in charge of making meals on specific days