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Our dual mission drives us to deliver on those beliefs. We provide healthy organic meals to people in a health crisis while fostering compassion and empowering youth and adult volunteers in our communities.
Healing Meals nourishes with love. We believe that food is medicine, so we prepare and deliver nutritious meals that support healing for people recovering from acute health issues. The Healing Meals kitchen brings together youth and adult volunteers in a welcoming place where cross-generational creativity and respect forms the foundation of our culture. Balancing ‘old-fashioned’ community values and recognition of the relationship between nutrition and healing, we support families facing a health crisis with healthy, organic meals.
Our current program provides meals for a three-month period enabling our clients to enjoy delicious, nutrient-rich meals without the work or stress of buying and preparing meals. That period is also the amount of time needed to support our client’s health when it is most compromised, when their appetite is lacking yet their need for nutrient-rich food is great. We have found that eating enough healthy foods during this time can increase the effectiveness of medications and improve overall quality of life.
While receiving Healing Meals food, our clients also have the opportunity to learn about nutrition and wellness. We educate our clients so that as they transition off our meals, they will be better equipped to create nutrient-rich meals in their own homes. Through our ‘NEW Book’ (Nutrition Education Wellness workbook series) we anticipate our clients will strengthen their knowledge and desire to continue to eat healthy food as well as have lifestyle changing benefits to enhance their body/mind connection. This knowledge of ‘Food is Medicine’ gives clients the opportunity to alter the paradigm of unhealthy eating and in-turn improve health outcomes for generations to come.
