Food & Nutrition

University is often hard enough without having to worry about where your next meal is coming from. If you find yourself short of resources to purchase food, let CUE Cupboard be a resource to provide temporary assistance.

Eating at CUE!  

Click here to find out details about the CUE Café.  Follow them on IG: @cue_eats

CUE Wellness has several Tower Gardens located around campus! These greens are free to be harvested when they're all grown up, so help yourself! 

Click here to learn more, including harvesting information!

Click here to access all our past cooking demo recipes!

You don't need a lot of ingredients to create different meals! There are many possibilities with these 5 kitchen staples:

corn

carrots

chicken

brown rice

black beans

Try this delicious rice bowl! Add a few vegetables, lower-sodium soy sauce and mix in a bowl.

In the mood for soup instead? Add broth, onions, Italian herbs and bring to a boil.

For more ideas on how to repurpose these ingredients, check out our new cooking skills articles, featuring 5 ingredients, 5 meals.

Looking for more inexpensive fruit & vegetables?  Check out H&W Produce.  They have 6 locations around Edmonton and great weekly specials!


Share it, map it, eat it!

Did you know Edmonton has a map of nearly 50,000 food-bearing trees and shrubs within its borders where you can find free wild produce!

Click here to access these tasty, budget-friendly recipes, plus find great budget tips!

Peanut Butter and Jelly Granola Bars 

Oatmeal

Fall Themed Rice Krispies

Beet and Chickpea Salad

Popcorn

Egg, Broccoli, and Cheddar Empanadas

Stuffed Peppers

Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

Lentil Coconut Curry

Crustless Vegetable Quiche

Brussels Sprout Hash & Eggs

Need More Recipe Ideas?

Holiday season often goes hand in hand with potlucks. Try this comforting turkey and lentil shepherd's pie. Start a new food tradition and bring it to your holiday gatherings. This recipe is easy to make using leftover mashed potatoes, carrots, and turkey. Repurposing leftovers is also a great way to reduce food waste! 

Wake up your taste buds with this sweet potato curry! It has a burst of flavour and colours you'll love. Don’t have sweet potatoes? Swap them for another kitchen staple like carrots or squash! 

For generations, a number of Indigenous peoples have grown the Three Sisters – squash, corn and beans – together. Each crop helps nurture the other as they grow. They also work together in this delicious spin on three sisters tacos. Add some orange to your day by trying these out!

Try this peach, roasted chickpeas and halloumi cheese salad. It is a yummy alternative to a standard garden salad and can be served hot or cold. 

Try this favourite! Tofu and butternut squash pasta shells.

These Lentil Nuggets make a great dipping 'finger food' snack.  

Remember, not all energy protein snacks are created equal. Try making your own snack bites using simple, pantry ingredients...like these Oat & Pumpkin No-bake bites.

Love fish tacos?  Try this Easy Peasy Fish Taco recipe!

Check out these 'meals in a jar' recipes. Great for breakfast, lunch or dinner!

Have you been wanting to try some plant-based recipes but not sure where to start? Check out this budget-friendly 7 day plant-based meal plan!


EPL Cooking Classes

Did you know the Edmonton Public Library now offers cooking classes?  Get your sauté, season and simmer on with The Kitchen!  The Kitchen, inside the Stanley A. Milner Library, offers learning opportunities related to health, nutrition and food literacy.  Check out what's happening in The Kitchen!

A Taste of Home!

Being an International student, it can be hard sometimes settling into a different place, starting anew and trying to find your way around this city. One of the things you can miss about home is the food, the laughter of your friends and family at the dining table as you share a meal. We hope that with this list you will be able to access some food that reminds you of the good times at home while exploring different parts of Edmonton. You can also make some new and beautiful memories with friends here to further enjoy your university experience. 

Check out this list of culturally and budget friendly food options in the Edmonton area...a taste of home!

Want to learn more about nutrition?

UnlockFood.ca offers a variety of articles, videos, recipes, tips and tricks. 

Find out how to make healthy meals with Canada's food guide plate and watch this video for healthy snack ideas

Prefer apps? Give these a try!

Cookspiration - Be inspired to cook any time, day or night! Recipe ideas are served up to suit your mood and schedule. Also, don’t forget to try the new My Menu Planner tool!

Aim2Be - Level up your life with evidence-based strategies and take small steps towards new, healthier habits. For example, discover proven strategies to help you be a mindful, healthy eater or energize your mind and body to move more! 

Click here to download.

What is Food Security?

The Food and Agriculture Organization's food security definition is when “all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.”

What is Food INsecurity?

Food insecurity is the inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints. It is a serious public health problem, a marker of pervasive material deprivation, and a matter of public policy.


Diets and Food Trends

Did you know fad diets claim to offer a quick fix to health issues such as helping you:

There may be little to no evidence to support these claims. Many of these diets can:

Click here to learn more!

Concerned about your relationship with food? Did you know 8-17% of post-secondary students are affected with an eating disorder? 

The National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) operates Canada's only toll-free helpline and online instant chat platform focusing on supporting individuals affected by eating disorders.  

Go to www.nedic.ca for more info, to access the instant chat service or call 1-866-NEDIC-20.

Click here to access guides to eating disorders in the Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour communities by and for community members and carers.