Community Kitchen Program

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The Community Kitchen Program of Calgary helps people to feed themselves. In 1993, Canada was in the grips of a recession and families were having a difficult time making ends meet. Aware of these difficulties, Marilyn Gunn proposed a plan whereby families with lower incomes could better feed their families for less money. She proposed that a number of families would arrange a planning session where they would plan a menu, search through grocery store flyers for the best prices, and purchase food in bulk. A few days later, the group would come together and cook two weeks worth of food for their families, at a cost saving. Ms. Gunn presented the idea to a number of non-profit organizations in the Calgary area. However, she was unsuccessful in her attempt to launch the idea at that time. In 1995, the Thornhill Baptist Church had a great number of families coming to their church in search of food. The church felt that there had to be better ways of dealing with the 'food problem' without duplicating the work of the Food Bank. Seeking solutions to this problem, the church turned to Ms. Gunn for her assistance. Ms. Gunn's plan was revisited and the first community kitchen followed thereafter. Volunteering as the kitchen coordinator, Ms. Gunn established the first community kitchen. At that first community kitchen, six mothers came together and in one afternoon cooked a total of 714 nutritious meals for 17 people at cost of 52 cents per person, per day...

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