EAT healthy foods
Getting our kids to eat wholesome and healthy food that is both good and good for their growing and active bodies is easy if you know where to find the information. Within the pages of this section you’ll find helpful information and recipies to make eating healthy, fun! Getting familiar with Canada’s Guidleines for Healthy Eating can also help to make things a bit easier. Get creative, get cooking and get healthy with your kids today!
Healthy Eating
Helping our kids to make healthy food choices is easy and fun once you know the basics.
Canada’s Guideline for Healthy Eating is a great place to start!
Understanding Nutrition
Knowing the nutrients behind what we eat is like knowing what kind of fuel you need to make your car run. It’s science yes, but we’ll keep it simple!
Meal Time Tips
Here are some kid-friendly ideas for your next meal! Try our Meal Time Tips and Sample Menu suggestions.
How Much Should we Eat?
Canada’s Food guide is a great way to start to understand just how much all of us should be eating. Once you understand the basic food groups and how to define a serving size (usually if you can hold it in the palm of your hand it’s 1 serving!) the rest is just about mixing it up and keeping it fun!
What are Food Groups?
Canada 's Food Guide divides food into four groups. Here are the groups, and some examples of what kinds of foods go into them.
What is a Serving?
Whether it’s a slice, a piece of fruit a cut of meat, a cup or teaspoon, Canada’s Food Guide provides you all the definitions. As a rule of thumb - usually if you can hold it in the palm of your hand it’s 1 serving!
Food Labels
Getting used to reading and understanding food labels is just another tool to help you to ensure that your kids are eating as healthy as they can. Don’t get overwhelmed with label information, just start with the basics and you and kids will find it fun to learn together!
The Whine
Foods that are good for us don’t always look, smell or taste as good as candy or cookies to our kids. All we can do is make eating food as fun, creative and healthy as possible and just keep trying to add more and more of the ‘good stuff’ into their diets one meal or snack at a time.
get them MOVING!
EAT
make it FUN!
Weekly Sample Menu
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