Our Work
Food Literacy & Healthy Habits
To build awareness, motivation, and sustained action among children, families, and communities through school curricula, family engagement, and tools for lifelong healthy habits.
Ongoing Projects
Flagship Eat Well. Live Well. (EWLW): 21 Habits Framework
21 core habits organised under Routine – Healthy – Mindful- Age-appropriate modules and classroom tools
- Integrated learning elements: emotions, sustainability, hygiene & culture
- ROUTINE – 7 Habits for Everyday Health: Build structure, rhythm, and emotional balance.
- HEALTHY – 7 Habits for Better Nutrition: Create nourishment and vitality through balanced food choices.
- MINDFUL – 7 Habits for Conscious Living: Cultivate gratitude, responsibility, and awareness.
Ongoing Projects under EWLW Framework
Implementing EWLW in Schools (Class 3 - 8)
Age-appropriate curricula linked to stories, sensory play, routines, table skills, and mindful eating
Delivery Model
The framework is designed to be flexible and scalable, and can be delivered through multiple formats based on setting and available resources:
This approach is suited for schools, school clusters, communities, and large events.
- Delivered as interactive workshop sessions for large groups of children.
- Can be conducted as:
- Single habit workshops, or
- Chained habit sessions (a series of connected sessions) for deeper reinforcement over time.
- Sessions are delivered through structured workshops, supported by:
- PPTs
- Posters
- Visual storytelling
- Group activities and demonstrations
- Simple reflection exercises
- Habit posters are displayed in classrooms and common school spaces to reinforce learning after the session.
- Printable worksheets are used during workshops to encourage participation and immediate application.
2. Micro-Habit Sessions
- Delivered as short 15-minute sessions, ideally before the lunch break.
- Directly links learning to everyday food choices, routines, and behaviours.
- Uses simple activities, visual prompts, and habit tracking to reinforce learning incrementally.
- Encourages daily practice and reflection rather than one-time instruction.
This approach ensures:
- Strong integration of food and lifestyle learning into daily school life
- Consistency across classrooms
- Gradual and sustained habit formation through repetition
3. Weekly Habit Sessions
- Delivered as a dedicated weekly class within the regular timetable.
- Focuses on one habit or a small cluster of related habits per session.
- Allows deeper discussion, hands-on activities, and guided reflection within a single structured period.
- Particularly suitable for schools where daily time slots are difficult to create.
This approach ensures:
- Ease of scheduling for schools
- Deeper engagement with each habit
- Progressive habit building across the academic year
Responsive Feeding Guide (0–3 years)
Supports Anganwadi workers and caregivers with science-based, practical guidance on cues, routines, bonding, and nourishment.
The first three years of life offer a golden window to shape a child’s body, mind, and future. This Guide turns science into simple, joyful actions that caregivers can practice daily from observing cues and creating routines to choosing wholesome foods and building emotional bonds. Rooted in the 21 Habits framework, the guide supports India’s POSHAN 2.0 and Navchetna efforts by linking nutrition with responsive care, hygiene, sustainability, and mindfulness. It empowers Anganwadi workers, mothers, and families to transform every feeding moment into a nurturing ritual that builds trust, resilience, and lifelong health.
Certificate Programme: Food & Lifestyle Coach
The programme aims to build a national cadre of Food & Lifestyle Coaches who translate the Eat Well · Live Well (EW·LW) 21 Habits into everyday practice for children, families, and communities across home, school, workplace, and community settings. By grounding food and lifestyle knowledge in daily routines and culturally familiar practices, the programme strengthens food literacy, supports sustainable choices, and contributes to improved health outcomes.
Preventive Care in Medical Education
Partnering with AIIMS, Delhi to mainstream nutrition and lifestyle-based preventive care involves embedding Human Nutrition and Lifestyle (Lifestyle Medicine) into both medical education and routine clinical practice. Structured modules on nutrition, physical activity, mental well-being, and lifestyle management are being integrated into undergraduate and postgraduate medical training. In parallel, hospitals and healthcare facilities reinforce these principles through posters and infographics that promote healthy diet, hydration, sleep, and stress management for patients and caregivers. Together, these efforts reposition lifestyle-based prevention as a core component of healthcare delivery, rather than an optional add-on.
Scaling Through Partners
Integration with Akshaya Patra’s Mid-Day Meal Programme
By embedding Eat Well. Live Well. microlearning modules into the daily routine alongside meals served by the Akshaya Patra Foundation, students not only receive nutritious food but also build a deeper understanding of healthy eating habits, hygiene, and sustainability. These bite-sized lessons delivered through visuals, songs, or simple classroom activities reinforce the connection between what children eat and how it affects their growth, energy, and learning. This integration ensures that the act of eating becomes a powerful moment of learning, helping scale up food literacy and improve health outcomes simultaneously.
Integration with Annapoorna Trust’s Morning Millet Drink Programme
Pairing EWLW microlearning with Annapoorna Trust’s morning millet-based drink offers a unique opportunity to promote traditional, nutrient-rich foods while teaching children about their benefits. These short, engaging modules can explain why millets are good for health, support local farmers, and are climate-friendly turning a simple daily drink into a gateway to understanding food diversity, regional heritage, and smart nutrition choices. This approach not only strengthens children’s connection with local foods but also builds lifelong appreciation for healthier, sustainable diets.
Integration with Delhi NCR’s flagship CM Shree Schools
This brings structured food literacy and life skills into the heart of classroom learning. By embedding EWLW’s micro-learning modules built around healthy habits, local foods, hygiene, and sustainability into the school day, students are empowered to make better food choices and develop lifelong habits. This initiative complements the CM Shree Schools’ holistic education approach, aligns with NEP 2020, and reinforces the role of schools as catalysts for public health, nutrition awareness, and responsible living among young learners.
Integration with State Education Departments
Partnering with State Education Departments enables Eat Well. Live Well. (EWLW) to be integrated into government schools at scale. Habit-based microlearning can be embedded into existing school routines, co-curricular periods, or school meal–linked activities, using daily micro-sessions, weekly habit classes, or cluster workshops as appropriate. This approach aligns with NEP 2020, strengthens the impact of school nutrition programmes, and supports schools as platforms for building lifelong food, health, and life skills.
Completed Projects
Food Literacy: Progressive Class-wise Thematic Framework
The Food Literacy Plus (FL+) programme offers a progressive, class-wise thematic framework from Nursery to Grade 8, designed to build food and lifestyle understanding gradually and age-appropriately. It is aligned with NEP 2020 and the School Health & Wellness curriculum.
The framework is organised around 8 core themes, introduced early and revisited with increasing depth:
- My Body and My Mind
- Staying Safe
- Food Around Us
- Nutrition and Health
- Food Preparation and Cooking
- Food Identity and Culture
- Healthy Habits and Lifestyle
- Food and Our Planet
Past Projects and Activities under Food Literacy
The Food Future Foundation has led several food literacy initiatives across India over the years.
- In collaboration with the Nourishing Schools Foundation, and supported by DSM and Mondelez, it developed and piloted a comprehensive curriculum for students from Nursery to Class 8 in Rajasthan and Karnataka.
Figure: Rollout in Schools in Jaipur, Rajasthan
- The Life Skills and Food Literacy Programme was also successfully implemented at Lotus Valley International School, Gurugram, blending health, sustainability, and mindful eating into everyday learning.
Figure: Rollout in Lotus Valley International School, Gurugram
- In March 2024, a state-level workshop in Vijayawada, in partnership with the Department of School Education, Andhra Pradesh, explored integrating food literacy into the Jagananna Gorumudda Plus scheme, reinforcing the state’s commitment to nutrition, curriculum integration, and community involvement.
Figure: State level Workshop on Jagananna Gorumudda cum Mainstreaming Food Literacy in Schools of Andhra Pradesh
- In November 2023, a workshop in Hyderabad with Millet Bank and Country Delight encouraged school principals to adopt food literacy in their institutions.
- In 2019–20, the Foundation conducted Healthy Diet Awareness Programs in schools, providing students with practical knowledge about balanced diets and nutrition. It also partnered with the Bharat Scouts and Guides to deliver structured modules on food, lifestyle, and health habits to adolescents.