Take advantage of your milk machine's capability to stock healthy snacks such as yogurt or veggie sticks.
Their website includes information on healthy eating at school.
Use this tool to find out the nutrients in your favourite recipes. You will also find ingredient substitution tips to help make your recipes healthier (e.g. lower in calories, fat, sugar or salt).
Health Canada also has an excellent response to internet rumours about aspartame at this link
The Complete Policy Paper includes the nutrition criteria and an appendix that shows which buildings in BC must comply with the vending policy.
This website has the Guidelines document which includes the nutrition criteria for rating products for schools. You’ll also find fact sheets on caffeine, sweeteners, etc including a very helpful “Healthier Foods” fact sheet.
Healthy Eating at School
A plethora of helpful tips and videos to help you support a healthier food environment at your school.
Healthy Fundraising for Schools
(be sure to check out their newsletters)
School Fruit and Vegetable Snack Program in BC
Action Schools! BC Is your school an Action School?
Act Now BC – Healthy Schools
World Health Organization forum, May 2006
This website, created by the BC Government and Heart and Stroke Foundation, helps support the food industry in restricting industrially produced trans fat.