Lunch Bunch Community Foundation

Lunch Bunch will use this grant to expand our hands-on culinary education programs that teach kids how to cook, understand nutrition, and access healthy food. For high school students, our enrichment classes also provide workforce training and pathways for economic advancement. Through fun, after-school sessions, students make meals, bring recipes home, and develop lifelong healthy habits that fight food insecurity and empower entire families.

Lunch Bunch is launching a new line of healthy, kid-approved school meal products made with sprouted grains, which are more digestible and nutrient-rich than traditional grains. With this grant, we’ll fund product development, pilot the meals in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), and subsidize costs to ensure affordability. Our goal is to improve student health and food equity by making better ingredients accessible in K–12 cafeterias, creating a replicable model for transforming school meals across Los Angeles County and beyond.

LBCF empowers children and families residing in underprivileged communities affected by restricted access to nutritious food options and education. This commitment is particularly focused on demystifying and educating on the impacts of colonized food systems with fun, accessible, healthy, and culturally relevant nutrition education and culinary arts programming fostering long-term health and wellness behavior changes. For high school students, our culinary enrichment programs provide workforce training and pathways for economic advancement.