100 Million Better Bites
Nourish’s national strategic agenda to 2030
100 Million meals are served in Canadian hospitals each year.
100 Million trays. 100 Million opportunities.
Opportunities to make food a cornerstone of a health care system that puts comfort, healing, culture, and climate action on the menu – a system that truly treats food as medicine.
The 100 Million Better Bites campaign is built on five pillars: low-carbon entrées, delicious nutrition, cultural mindfulness, and sustainably produced, locally sourced food.
Each bite advances these pillars, creating a coordinated set of actions to transform what’s on the tray.
Our food and health systems are in crisis. Our communities, patients, and teams can’t wait.
Half
Of hospital patient trays are typically thrown away.
Zero
TRC’s Health Calls to Action have been completed.
1 in 5
Adults in Canada live with chronic diet-related diseases like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.
$2B
The annual cost to Canada’s health care system of longer hospital stays of two to three days and readmissions related to hospital-based malnutrition.
The Pillars of 100 Million Better Bites
-
Low-carbon entrées
Reducing carbon emissions by shifting entrées to plant-forward.
Reducing animal-protein portion sizes and replacing them with more plant-based options. Traditionally harvested Indigenous entrées count as low-carbon.
-
Delicious Nutrition
Eating a rainbow of whole, plant-forward, culturally- informed foods.
Designing a tray that includes: whole grains; featuring at least 3 natural colours; no sugar sweetened beverages; and diverse plant protein (legumes, nuts, tofu).
-
Culturally Mindful
Meals co-designed with Indigenous or other equity-deserving communities.
Leading meaningful engagement to inform menu and sourcing changes to the main entrée and side dishes.
-
Sustainably-Produced and Locally-Sourced
Sourcing ingredients produced with ethical and planet-friendly practices, from regional growers and suppliers (including BIPOC-led).
Nourish Commons
The Commons is Nourish’s online portal and platform for action – the doorway into all things Nourish and programming for 100 Million Better Bites.
Membership makes it simple to find the networks, resources, and expertise you need to leverage the power of food for health and well-being.
Join the Nourish Commons, which opened in March 2026, and gain a launchpad to transform your organization’s food for health outcomes.