Healthy lunches
Healthy lunch checklist
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Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide
Nutrition labels
Portion sizes
Healthy lunch FAQs
Avoid roadblocks
No time to prepare
No time to eat
It gets boring
Food Temptations
Food safety
What about allergies?
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Let's make a meal
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Healthy Lunches to Go
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Supermarket smarts! make wise food choices wherever you go!
Presents advice for making healthy food choices for different types of food in a grocery store. Link requires PDF reader.
Virtual grocery store
Presents an interactive quiz that contains information on how to interpret food labels and to use nutrition information on food labels to make healthy food choices. Also provides nutrition and shopping tips.
Source:
Dietitians of Canada
and
Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA)
From:
Healthy eating is in store for you: nutrition education labelling centre
Interactive nutrition label and quiz
Presents an interactive tool that outlines the information provided by the nutrition label and explains how to use this information to make healthy food choices. Offers a quiz that tests knowledge of the nutrition label.
Source:
Health Canada
Labelling of foods causing allergies and sensitivities
Lists the food ingredients most commonly associated with allergies. Describes how the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is working with the food industry to ensure that these ingredients are mentioned on food labels.
Source:
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)