Although healthy food is made available at a food bank, not everyone knows how to cook a nutritious meal. In Portage la Prairie, Man., Captain B.J. Loder, former corps officer, enlisted the assistance of Janelle Botterill, a local certified dietician, to offer cooking classes, enabling clients to make better use of the food they received.

“This is the missing link that we have gone without for quite a while,” Captain Loder says of the program. “We are really excited about this.”