Wild Bites is an adventurous, interactive nutrition and cooking experience that invites children and their families to cook along, learn together, and build confidence in the kitchen.
Wild Bites helps Health Directors and Prevention Coordinators deliver engaging, professionally developed family nutrition programs without adding to the workload of an already busy team.
From ready-to-use resources to complete program packages, Wild Bites offers flexible solutions that fit your community’s goals, staffing capacity, and budget.
Choose a simple, low-involvement option or a more customized, hands-on experience. Depending on the package, we provide starter kits, recipe cards, grocery and kitchen equipment, celebration packages, personalized cookbooks, graduation certificates, and professionally produced cooking experiences—all designed to make participation easy for families and implementation simple for your team.Â
Let us handle the details. Resources and program materials can be prepared and mailed directly to participating families, minimizing staff coordination. Wild Bites helps you offer meaningful family nutrition programming, ensuring no additional workload for your staff.
Work with Sabrina to plan the series, materials, and level of customization that fit your team's capacity & community's goals.
Bring families together to introduce their Wild Bites adventure.
Families follow 7 weeks of personalized, professionally produced cooking experiences at their own pace and on their own schedule, without the need for your staff to facilitate.Â
Gather families for a Wild Bites Celebration event to honor their accomplishments.
Wild Bites is a customizable nutrition and cooking program for children and families. Communities can choose from available Wild Bites series based on their goals, participating families, and areas of interest.
Each series combines evidence-informed nutrition education with hands-on cooking, professionally produced media, and opportunities for family participation. Programming can be further customized to reflect community priorities, interests, and available resources.
The core Wild Bites series introduces children and families to practical cooking skills, food exploration and foundational nutrition concepts through fun, hands-on experiences.
Families cook together, try new foods, and build skills and confidence they can continue using at home.
A breakfast-focused series that gets children and families cooking while exploring the building blocks of satisfying, nourishing breakfasts.
Participants prepare a variety of breakfast foods while developing practical skills and discovering new ingredients, flavours and combinations.
A culinary adventure exploring foods, flavours and cooking traditions from around the world. Participants can discover French, Italian and other global cuisines while learning new cooking techniques, ingredients and food traditions.
The foods and cultures explored can be selected in consultation with participating communities.
A playful Wild Bites series for younger children and their caregivers, with simple, age-appropriate food exploration and hands-on activities designed for little helpers.
Designed for older children and youth who are ready for greater independence in the kitchen, more advanced cooking experiences, and new food challenges.
Our fun-loving Wild Bites moose brings humour, curiosity and a little mischief to the kitchen!
Through animated adventures and playful conversations, WB helps make nutrition education entertaining and memorable for children and families.
Wild Bites brings together professionally developed nutrition education, cooking experiences, food, family engagement, and program materials into one customizable community program.
Depending on the selected series and community package, Wild Bites can include:
Wild Bites is about more than preparing meals. It's an opportunity for families to spend time together, celebrate their creativity and discover what they can accomplish in the kitchen.
From the excitement of a community launch to a graduation celebration recognizing each participant's accomplishments, Wild Bites creates shared experiences that families can look back on with pride. Families also take home practical resources and equipment, where included, to continue their cooking adventures together.
"Thank you to Sabrina and the wild bites program, for giving us the opportunity to experience the excitement of experimenting with new recipes, the Wild Bites program empowers and encourages the developmental growth through their program. Cooking is an art and I want to be an artist!"
"Thank you Sabrina for such a great opportunity this has been such a good time not only for Jayla but for our whole family we look forward to our Wednesday night that’s for sure.  And also Jayla is trying to eat new food she is a picky eater, and she definitely been taste testing and liking what she is eating. Again a big thank you to you and Denise"
"The ninja blender is a hit in our householder! Ever since Wild Bites, my family and I have been utilizing it daily to make smoothies. If they have any new programs available in the future, my girls are highly interested in your program. 😊"
"Wild Bites has been such a special program for our family. Brae is now getting the chance to cook and learn in the same program her big sister Lani did, who is a Wild Bites Youth Ambassador. Wild Bites has become more than just a cooking program for our family, it has created so many memories, confidence, and opportunities for both of my girls. We’re really grateful to be part of it. Thank you Sabrina!"
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"Wild Bites is an initiative that not only teaches children the art of cooking but also fosters their confidence and creativity in the kitchen."
"We loved both the Foundations and Breakfast series!!"
Every community is different. Let’s talk about your goals, the families you serve, and how Wild Bites can be brought to life in a way that works for your community.
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Wild Bites is based in Indian Head, Saskatchewan, on Treaty 4 Territory, the traditional lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota Peoples, and the homeland of the Métis. We are grateful to live and work on these lands and honoured to connect with Indigenous communities across many traditional territories.