Food to Play

Providing food classes, take-home food hampers and easy recipes for Free Play kids and families.

Food to Play helps kids learn about food, health, and how to make good choices as they grow. The program teaches everything from the basics of healthy eating to how food can give energy for sports.

Kids move through four stages as they get older:

  • Food for Life – learning simple healthy habits (ages 7–11)

  • Food for Play – making food choices that support growth and activity (ages 11–13)

  • Food to Train – learning how to fuel the body for sport and training (ages 13–15)

  • Food to Compete – advanced nutrition and recovery for athletes (ages 15–17)

Kids in Free Play will receive:

  • Daily, healthy snacks

  • Weekly food classes with their Head Coaches about the “Super Snack of the Week”

  • Monthly food class with a Food to Play Nutritionist, plus a take-home food hamper

At every level, kids learn about healthy meals, hydration, rest, and wellness in a way that builds lifelong habits.

All the recipes we have made are down below so that Free Play families can find them again, but also so you can try them too!
Check out below recipes for breakfast, lunch and snack time!

Food to Play is proudly supported by:

Logo for 'Food Top Play', a children’s organization related to soccer, with a black and yellow color scheme, featuring a soccer ball and the words 'Free Play for Kids' and 'Alliance Group'.
Collection of logos representing various organizations and businesses, including CNN, Swanson Miki Peskett LLP, The Little Potato Co., REALTORS Community Foundation, Big Chief Meat Snacks, F.K. Morrow Foundation, Dickey's Barbecue Pit in Edmonton, Belmond Loved Sobeys, Oodle Noodle, and Alberta Association of Optometrists.

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO FROM OUR GRILLED CHEESE FOODS CLASS >>

OUR RECIPES:

You can help kids gain food literacy by donating directly to the Food to Play program.

For $20, kids participate in a Food’s class with Free Play’s nutritionist to learn a new recipe and are provided with a food hamper filled with ingredients to make the recipe at home.

DONATE $20 TO FEED A CHILD