Front view of our Saulter Street South facility! After Dovercourt, our big move to Saulter Street South took place in 2016. This space is more impressive than ever before and has given us the ability to envision our future achievements more than our previous facilities. At Saulter Street, we feel like our plans have never been more within reach! Here we have more office space, providing our ever-growing team with the tools to ensure our clients have the best experience possible. Our kitchen is much bigger, allowing us to fit more top-of-the-line equipment for making nutritious & delicious ..read more

remembering the dovercourt days! After our grassroots beginnings serving up real food on Bloor West, we relocated to our second facility on Dovercourt in 2009, experiencing amazing growth along the way! David smiling in new Dovercourt location – pre-transformation1 Getting our Dovercourt facility up and running! Lulu having fun – pre-transformation! We welcomed more incredible team members, expanded our fleet of vans delivering delicious food, & most importantly, reached more kids with our mission of fuelling healthy futures than ever before. For the real deal stats: this facility eve ..read more

step into our first home! Our facilities have gotten bigger & better over the years, making our mission to enable & inspire a lifetime of healthy eating easier with each development. From humble beginnings to our current facility, it warms our hearts to reflect on how it all began. After David’s hard work! Some of our first kitchen equipment in our first space. David working on our kitchen makeover! Our first kitchen space before David started sprucing it up! David & Lulu started whipping up amazing recipes in their very own home. They then transitioned to a shared kitchen at a loc ..read more

As much as we love pleasing our child care partners and the parents in our community, the amazing kids we serve have remained our #1 priority throughout our 20 years. When the little ones are happy & fulfilled, everyone benefits and feels the love. One of the brightest moments of our day is hearing that your kids enjoy their lunches & snacks. check out some wonderful testimonials we’ve cherished! White Bean Curry over brown rice, served with corn and pear. “My daughter had your White Bean Curry and quinoa at her preschool and for the first time, she demolished 2 servings!” -Dianne ..read more

celebrating 20 years of reading! At RFRK, we believe in the value of food literacy. It not only empowers kids to gain knowledge about what they eat, but also instills life lessons surrounding food — like patience, sharing, & open-mindedness. Over the past 20 years, we’ve discovered many children’s books that whisk young readers away on food-filled adventures, all while enabling & inspiring a future of healthy eating, teaching them about various cultures, and helping them expand their food literacy. Let’s explore our top picks from our ever-growing collection! The Tale of Kale Written ..read more

As we reflect on the past 20 years of our mission of enabling & inspiring a lifetime of healthy eating, we ask ourselves how we’ve impacted the kids that we’ve served. To answer that, we followed up with Juliette, one of the first RFRK babies who also grew up next door to our founder, Lulu!  Juliette describes the excitement of witnessing Lulu test new recipes in the kitchen and fondly remembers Mac n’ Cheese as her favourite RFRK dish. Best of all, her healthy eating habits she adopted as a child have stayed with her into adulthood, guiding her food choices at university! Click here ..read more

Continuing with our 20th birthday posts, let’s honour World Bee Day by revisiting one of our proudest initiatives. RFRK partners with George Brown College Hospitality and Culinary Arts Professor and Ontario Beekeeper, Patrick Secord, to host a flourishing group of beehives at the RFRK facility. Not only do we love nurturing the hives, but we always get several dozen jars of our very own hyper-local honey at the end of the summer. Talk about a sweet reward! These buzzing superheroes are crucial for our environment. Bees use their pollinating power to transform flowers into the fruits & ve ..read more

Serving more than 30,000 kids every day wouldn’t be possible without our trusty delivery vans! We’ve given them a few makeovers over the past 20 years as they continue to do a great job bringing smiles to faces. Let’s take a look at how they’ve evolved.  2014: It all started with this blue and green colour scheme and our very first RFRK buddies! These iconic vans paved the way for our expansive services by kickstarting our deliveries in the early days. 2021: We’ll always cherish the Real Food Kitchen vans. They helped with our home delivery program during the pandemic, which allowed us ..read more

Serving more than 30,000 kids every day wouldn’t be possible without our trusty delivery vans! We’ve given them a few makeovers over the past 20 years as they continue to do a great job bringing smiles to faces. Let’s take a look at how they’ve evolved.  2014: It all started with this blue and green colour scheme and our very first RFRK buddies! These iconic vans paved the way for our expansive services by kickstarting our deliveries in the early days. 2021: We’ll always cherish the Real Food Kitchen vans. They helped with our home delivery program during the pandemic, which allowed us ..read more

One big reason we’ve thrived for 20 years is our rock-solid commitment to allergy safety and meeting every child’s dietary needs, while still making food delicious & nutritious. We also thank the parents of kids with allergies for putting their trust in our hands! The kind words we receive from those parents who can relax knowing their kiddos are munching safely (and happily!) at child care always brighten our day. To keep celebrating 20 years of RFRK and to again honour May as Allergy Awareness Month, here is a small glimpse into the touching testimonials we’ve loved hearing. “As a paren ..read more