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Niagara Nutrition Partners

Dedicated to supporting & facilitating Student Nutrition Programs across the Niagara Region. Feeding more than 24,000 Niagara students daily.

10/31/2026

Roasted pumpkin seeds are an easy, nutritious and delicious snack! Here's a simple recipe to follow:

🎃 Rinse pumpkin seeds in cold water, removing all pulp residue.

🎃 Dry seed thoroughly for a crunchier roast.

🎃 Preheat your oven to 300°F (150°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

🎃 toss the dry seeds in a bowl with the olive oil (or melted butter) and salt, ensuring they are evenly coated. Add any extra seasoning or spices that you like!

🎃 Spread the seeds out in a single layer on the baking sheet. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes. Stir every 10 minutes for even baking.

🎃 cool and enjoy!! 👌

Happy Halloween from the staff at NNP! 🎃🫶

10/29/2026

Our programs are Bigger than Breakfast! 🍎🫶

Our community is coming together in a big way to support student nutrition in Niagara. 🤝🙌

Another volunteer crew from Leon's Welland and NOTL is working hard this morning baking, chopping and packing food to go out for immediate delivery to area schools. 🚗🏫

We can't wait to for students to enjoy warm muffins straight from the oven and fresh chopped veggies to help keep their tummies full and energy high while at school! 🏃‍♀️📚

10/28/2026

Baking and food prepping fresh veggies couldn't have been a better experience with our friends from Leon's Welland and NOTL!! 🤝🎉

Banana muffins made from scratch, farm fresh carrots and peppers from Niagara college were prepped, packed and delivered to 3 welland schools last week. The smell of fresh baked good filled the school halls as students enjoyed the welcome addition to their nutrition programs. 🥕🫑🍞

Cost saving projects, such as baking, chopping and packing products into smaller, snack size portions helps schools to stretch their food budgets. NNP often recieves donated or discounted food such as cereals, peppers, yogurts and hard-boiled eggs. Having a large volunteer base means we can pack up the food in a way that serves the most students possible, or bake snacks from scratch, and allows schools to use their funding on more items. 🙌🥣

Stay tuned for more exciting projects with NNP and Leon's! 🎉👏

10/27/2026

Josh Cassolato, caretaker at St. Teresa of Calcutta in St. Catharines graciously helped us load a brand new cart into the school. This cart, donated by NNP will help the school distribute fresh, nutritious food to students to keep their energy and focus high while learning. The school is already noticing how much their students love to grab fresh fruit from their snack bins!! A large cart such as this one will make it easy for volunteers to load up several classroom snack bins at once. 🍊✏️🏃‍♀️

NNP was thrilled to welcome St. Teresa of Calcutta as a new student nutrition program this year. Along with providing infrastructure such as bins, carts, freezer packs and fridge thermometers, we provide the funding and support needed to get programs up and running. From assisting with orders, learning how to complete reports, and offering suggestions and guidance on how to run a nutrition program efficiently and effectively, the staff at NNP is here to help students eat 🍎, learn 📚 and succeed 🎓!

Thanks for the help Josh, and welcome aboard St. Teresa of Calcutta!! 🤝

10/26/2026

"Students do better when they have access to nourishing food". 🍎🤸‍♂️
-Jessica Stephenson, Director, Niagara Nutrition Partners

NNP works diligently to provide the infrastructure and support needed to nourish students and strengthen communities, however the need in schools currently exceeds the resources allocated to us by provincial and federal funding.

Our "Bigger than Breakfast" campaign, with a goal of $1000 raised for each our of 220 nutrition programs in Niagara, will allow us to maintain the systems, people, facilities, and equipment required to support our volunteers and coordinators and, ultimately, ensure that students have reliable access to nutritious food.

These costs are not separate from our mission—they are what make the mission possible. 🙌

Your support in this campaign is crucial. To learn more, please visit:
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/community-care/p2p/Biggerthanbreakfast/

Sharing this post will help us tremendously in spreading awareness for our campaign, our mission, and the students our programs impact.

Thank you 🫶

10/23/2026

Today was the start of amazing partnership and friendship with Leon's Furniture. 🫶🤝

Earlier this morning, employees from Leon's Welland and Leon's Niagara-on-the-Lake selflessly donated their time and energy mixing made from scratch muffins and chopping farm fresh veggies for local student nutrition programs. 👏🥕

In just a short amount of time, this amazing group was able to produce hundreds of freshly baked banana muffins, individually packaged carrot sticks from Devries Fruit Farms and chopped peppers from our partnership with the Niagara College Horticultural and Environmental Sciences Innovation Centre. 🫑🌶

As soon as all the food items were packaged up, we were able to deliver yummy, fresh muffins and veggies to three schools in Welland to start enjoying immediately! 🚗🤸‍♂️

Stay tuned for more footage from this wonderful event!!!

10/22/2026

Load it up!! 🚗 🫑

School Support Coordinator Leeann had a packed car today with carts, bins, ice packs, fridge thermometers, cooler bags and fresh peppers to go to schools. NNP has been busy this fall ensuring that every achool in Niagara has a fully supported student nutrition program. 🫶🤝

SSC's work closely with each school in their area to assess and understand how a program operates. It is important to fully grasp the needs of each program in order to advocate for, and provide adequate funding, infrastructure and assistance. 📋

There are many ways a program can run. From a cart with food located in a central location, bins delivered to each classroom, or a sit down meal- each program is unique. Most importantly, the food is accessible to ALL students, no matter the reason that they are experiencing hunger duirng their school day. 👍

Eat 🍎
Learn 📚
Succeed 👨‍🎓

10/21/2026

Not only is Niagara CUPE Council a wonderful neighbour to NNP, CUPE has proven to be great supporters of student nutrition programs in Niagara!! 🤝🫶

This week, Niagara CUPE Council presented NNP with a $200 donation to support feeding students at school. CUPE1317 also announced that their annual Christmas Dinner Dance ticket sale proceeds will be donated to Niagara Nutrition Partners. 👏🙌

The Niagara District CUPE Council is dedicated to uniting and empowering CUPE locals across the Niagara Region and supports their affiliated locals.

CUPE Local 1317 represents approximately 1,100 dedicated education workers at the Niagara Catholic District School Board and is commited to advocating for their members, who work across a wide range of roles.

Thank you CUPE for being a good neighbour, and helping to provide much needed funding to support student nutrition programs in Niagara! 🌼🍎

10/17/2026

NNP is officially kicking off the start of our Bigger than Breakfast campaign. 🍎❤️

Providing the infrastructure and support needed to nourish students and strengthen communities currently exceeds the resources allocated to us by provincial and federal funding. With a campaign goal of $1000 raised for each our of 220 nutrition programs in Niagara, this funding will allow us to maintain the systems, people, facilities, and equipment required to support our volunteers and coordinators and, ultimately, ensure that students have reliable access to nutritious food and meaningful nutrition.

These costs are not separate from our mission—they are what make the mission possible. 🙌

Your support in this campaign is crucial. To learn more, please visit:
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/community-care/p2p/Biggerthanbreakfast/

Sharing this post will help us tremendously in spreading awareness for our campaign, our mission, and the students our programs impact.

Thank you 🫶

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