Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre and Roots Community Food Centre offer traditional meals for seniors and Elders – Anishinabek News
August 12, 2025
THUNDER BAY — The Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre (TBIFC) and Roots Community Food Centre’s Traditional Meals for Seniors and Elders featured a Three Sisters Mash with wild rice (manomin) pudding and berries dessert on July 25.
“It was excellent, very healthy,” says Paul Francis, a Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory citizen who lives in Thunder Bay. “I come here every Friday at the end of the month — I like trying different foods and see what they’ve got. Plus, I’m in the program with the Friendship Centre, they supply me $40 a month to go and get fresh fruit and vegetables from this little store here (at Roots Community Food Centre).”
Francis says this was the first time he had manomin in a dessert.
“That was excellent, I really enjoyed that,” Francis says. “I don’t think I’ve ever had it before [in a dessert]. I’ve eaten it in soup and just on the plate with moose meat.”
