The University of Alberta Campus Food Bank

Campus Food Bank is a part of the Tim Horton’s Smile Cookie campaign again this year!!! 🤩🍪🍪☕️

Last year Tim’s raised $22.6 Million to support local charities!!

Starting next Monday, April 27th, until Sunday, May 3rd, you can purchase a smile cookie on the U of A Campus to support CFB!! 🤝🫶Participating locations include ETLC, Lister, CAB-Express and CAB-Full Service.

Thank you to Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies for such a wonderful evening of song and community! We are so grateful for their continued support.

Oh my gourd!!!! Look what we got in today!!! 🤩🤩🍂🎃

We had so much fun at our Prideful Cooking event last week!!! 😊❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 🌈 🍪 The Landing is a centre for all q***r, trans and gender diverse people within the U of A community, and we were so glad to have the opportunity to collaborate with them in planning this event and in bringing community members together! 🫶🤝💛

Hey artists!! Our competition for mural pieces will be closing on February 23rd. Here is your reminder to send in your proposals!! We are so excited to showcase your beautiful work on our community pantry🍎❤️

One of the most common questions we receive about our operation is: “Where does all your food come from?” We thought it might be fun to give you a mini tour of how we bring food into our spaces each week...

Four days a week, a pair of CFB volunteers hop into the Student Union’s cargo van and drive across town to Edmonton’s Food Bank. There, the volunteers pick through options available in the EFB warehouse and collect food that our clients will want. Typically, volunteers bring about 500 pounds of food per day back to our food bank. We often send the van to Wholesale Club at the same time to supplement donations with purchased food staples like rice and oats.

One of the CFB staff team drives down to Food Banks Alberta’s warehouse in Leduc monthly to pick up pallets of food. We usually receive two non-perishable pallets of food like canned vegetables, cereal, rice, and snacks, as well as one frozen, perishable pallet of food like chicken, beef, and reheatable meals. Pallet jacks aren’t allowed in SUB so we unpack all pallets in the parking lot and shlep them into our offices on carts.

There are many other sources of food that we receive! We occasionally get donations from large companies like The Little Potato Company, and we often get rescued food donations from the Leftovers Foundation. We have a fruitful annual partnership with Prairie Urban Farm on South Campus; they donated more than 2,000 pounds of produce in 2024. We also purchase food from Costco and Sysco.

As you can see, it is quite a patchwork! We depend a lot on our amazing volunteers to move all this food into the food bank. We currently have more than 130 student and alumni volunteers who help us out every week. Thanks to them, and to all of our sources of donated food, we’re able to distribute more than 5,500 pounds of food each week to our clients.

Thank you for reading. Stay tuned for more information on our Fresh Food February 2025 campaign to raise support for the purchase of fresh produce and protein until spring arrives!

CFB will be closed from December 21 - January 5th. Check out the Food Resources section on our website to see additional ways to access discounted food, easy recipes with affordable ingredients, and more! Link in bio🍎❤️

Hey Edmonton neighbours! Let’s fill CFB with love! 🍎❤️

The holiday season is near, but donations are falling short this year. We need your help to keep our food hampers packed with nutritious, delicious essentials for those in need! Let’s make a difference together!

What we need most:
•canned foods: fruits, veggies, pasta sauces, tuna, salmon, chicken
•pantry staples: rice, pasta, cereals, crackers, granola bars, gluten-free options
•shelf-stable milk alternatives: almond, soy, rice, coconut, etc.
•dried beans, legumes, nuts
•cooking oils, herbs, spices
•holiday sweet treats

Kindly ensure all items are unopened, undamaged, and within their expiry date. To schedule a drop-off or for more info, email is at [email protected] !

Your support means the world! 🍎❤️