Plenty of Plates Meal Prep & Service

Volunteers will participate in Plenty of Plates, a community meal event hosted by A Better Life Foundation at the iconic Save-On-Meats diner on Hastings Street. Together we will cook a nutritious and delicious 3 course meal for 80 people living in the Downtown Eastside. It’s a unique and meaningful volunteer experience to connect and give back as a team.

A Better Life Foundation aims to nourish the Downtown Eastside and beyond with compassion and dignity; providing restaurant quality meals while breaking down the stereotypes and stigmas that so often flatten out the vibrancy of our beautiful neighbourhood.

Plenty of Plates is a key driver of these efforts.

A Better Life Foundation believes in radical spaces for inclusion, we make good, honest food that helps our community, and believe in generous hospitality. Our daily meal program, Plenty of Plates, is the cornerstone of our work. Preparing, cooking, packaging, and delivering 1,800 scratch made meals to the residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 

We support our city’s most marginalized folks in their journey towards upward mobility. Starting with food security, we strive to make a direct and meaningful difference by providing meals, meaningful employment, training, education and taking climate change actions since 2013.