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Mindful Meals Climate Initiative Photo Gallery

Learn more about how MMCI made real change across Virginia, California, and Canada through our gallery!

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Franklin Sherman Elementary School After-School Program Video Recap

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March is National Nutrition Month! 🌱💚🍽️

For Mindful Meals, National Nutrition Month means continuing our mission of introducing youth to climate-friendly ingredients and cooking methods that they can implement into their daily lives, along with

@mindful.meals.tracy had such an amazing bake sale throughout the past three days!! From March 1st-4th, 10 volunteers and our ambassadors Meha and Adwita came together to fundraise OVER $200! 🎉👏🩷 Through their hard work, the team successfully shar

Mindful Meals and @patisserie_kristie had a VERY successful bake sale at Great Falls Giant today! We completely sold out and raised a TOTAL of $409!!!! 💵🥳💚 From banana bread to apple and chocolate chip cookies, we shared our environmentally friend

For the past 6 weeks, we made food feel ✨magical✨ and 🤩fun🤩 at Franklin Sherman Elementary School! As its first-ever student run after-school program, Amelia had so much fun working with all 15 students and curating session curriculums to answer th

Mindful Meals is excited to share that we wrapped up our LAST after-school session on Thursday (2/26) at Franklin Sherman Elementary School!

Over the past five weeks, students explored everything from the Healthy Eating Plate to cucumber fermentatio

Mindful Meals just wrapped up our 5th after-school sessions, and this one was all about the magic of fermentation! 🥒 This week at Franklin Sherman Elementary School, students dove into cucumber fermentation, and it was the first time for many. Stude

Amelia's Inspiring Teens article has been featured on the publication's Facebook as Issue 99's "It Girl" of the Day! Learn more about the article through the post! 📋🌱

Mindful Meals is on a roll! We completed our fourth after-school program at Franklin Sherman Elementary School on February 12th, focusing on the power of pulses 🫘❤️ It was perfectly timed just two days after World Pulses Day on February 10th!

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We are so excited to announce that Amelia, the founder of Mindful Meals, was nominated and selected to be featured in the Inspiring Teens Issue 99 Magazine! Please visit the link

https://www.inspiringteens.com/blog/amelia-cho

to learn more about

Mindful Meals is officially halfway through its after-school sessions at Franklin Sherman Elementary School! 🎉 For Week 3, our main focus was learning about the Healthy Eating Plate 🍽️🌎💚

We began the session by introducing the concept of “

Our second Mindful Meals session was a huge success!! 👏🌱 Students had so much fun reflecting on this week’s focus on school lunch. We had a meaningful and engaging discussion reflecting on school lunch, focusing on what students enjoy, dislik

Mindful Meals had its first after-school program session at Franklin Sherman Elementary School on January 15th! Below is the list of the activities we did throughout the session:

🌱 Miles and Amelia introduced Mindful Meals, shared our initiative's

Mindful Meals had its great second partnership with SHARE of McLean, sorting and organizing the pantry that serves all locals across McLean! From whole wheat pasta to pinto beans to red quinoa, we were able to manage many superfoods along with other

Mindful Meals and Patisserie Kristie are partnering on January 25th for a bake sale from 2:00 - 4:00 PM! Come support our sustainably made baked goods with produce saved from Lidl McLean! The produce will be split to support the Mindful Meals childre

Mindful Meals is hosting our second food drive with SHARE of McLean on January 17th, Saturday, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM! If you are interested in helping out, please DM to participate and volunteer within the next few weeks. We will be supporting loca

This was a transformative year for Mindful Meals! ⭐️

Starting in February of 2025, these past 10 months have been a year of growth and transformation for our team. Starting out as an idea, Amelia’s goal was to provide foods that are both healt

Mindful Meals is officially accepting sign ups for our after school program at Franklin Sherman Elementary School! If you are a parent or guardian of a student, please follow up and sign up through the link in the poster. The program will run for 6 w

Mindful Meals had a great time yesterday promoting our upcoming after school program at Franklin Sherman Elementary School at their movie night! 🎥🍿🎬 Stay tuned for updates on our upcoming school partnerships!

Mindful Meals is excited to announce our feature in the most recent issue of McLean City Lifestyle! The article dives into how our organization was created, our main initiatives, and our future plans and goals. Please visit the link in our bio or cap