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#Great big crunch

crunch with us for healthy school Food Anytime in March!

Check out the momentum on twitter

Credit: Rachel Cheng

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1. Let us know how you'll  continue to crunch!

Help us keep track of all the crunches taking place this year.

We want to count your crunches towards the grand total, no matter when you do it or what you crunch.​

Invite your classroom or your whole school! You can ask colleagues, or friends and family to join your crunch! If an in person crunch is not possible, plan an online video call.

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3. Crunch, crunch, crunch!

Crunch with your class, crunch at work or home, or organize a fun video call with your colleagues and crunch together. 

Watch the recording of our 2023 virtual, Canada-wide Great Big Crunch here

Do you have any feedback for the event or ideas for the next one? Share them with us using this evaluation form.

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2. Prepare your crunch

When planning your Crunch, choose locally grown fruits or vegetables.

Our Activity toolkit provides fun, curriculum-linked lesson plans and activities to bring the Crunch to life for children of all ages at home or safely in the classroom. 

Don't forget to invite others to crunch with you using our Communication Toolkit!

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4. Share your crunch

Share on social media! Take a photo of your Crunch and share on social media, which helps us make even more noise for healthy school food. Here’s a message you can copy and paste:

  • We took the #GreatBigCrunch to celebrate #HealthySchoolFood! 

  • Tag us on Facebook: @CHSF.CSAS, Twitter: @C4HSchoolFood, Instagram:@thegreatbigcrunch or Tiktok: @greatbigcrunch

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Get on the
school food map!

in march 2023
147 474
Crunches were heard

Read about the highlights of the 2022 Great Big Crunch in schools and classrooms across Canada.

 

View the recording here

Did you know?

In 2021, the Cities of Vancouver, Battleford and North Battleford proclaimed March 11 as the Great Big Crunch - Healthy School Food Day!

school highlight

"We are a small school in Northwestern Ontario and had registered for the event. For logistical reasons, our classes 'crunched' at 9:00 AM on Friday, March 12th, 2021.
Every student received either an apple or pear. We did crafts using an apple, the life cycle, parts of a fruit, the history of the apple in Canada, and jobs involved 'from the field to the table'. We read stories about apples and vegetables, planted apple seeds, and made apple sauce 'from scratch'.
Junior Grades also made connections to the topics of food miles, local food, and food security."

Christel Kamm, Library of Lillian Berg Public School

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The Great Big Crunch at Lilian Berg Public School. Photo credit: Christel Kamm

THE GREAT BIG CRUNCH is a Canada-wide movement and annual moment of anti-silence in which students, teachers, parents and others passionate about food join the food movement and crunch into apples (or other crunchy fruit or vegetable) to make noise for healthy school food! Every year since 2008, Canadians from coast to coast have participated in the Great Big Crunch, an original initiative of FoodShare Toronto.

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