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Nutrition Month March 2016. Health Info prepared by Public Health March 2016. Nutrition Month 2016. Take a 100 meal journey ! Choose foods with good nutritive quality !. Bring back life to your meals!. Forget the restaurants! Prepare a good and fast meal with leftovers.
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Nutrition Month March 2016
Health Info prepared by Public HealthMarch 2016
Take a 100 mealjourney! Choosefoodswith good nutritive quality!
Bring back life to your meals! Forget the restaurants! Prepare a good and fast meal with leftovers. • Extra chicken: roll in tortilla bread with shredded carrots, cheese and plain greek yogurt • Extra veggies: put them on whole grain bread garnished with hummus • Extra whole wheat pasta: mix them with tomato sauce, lentils and cheese
Swap Your Sip Swap sugary sips for: • Water – plain or fizzy. Add flavour with a wedge of citrus or cucumber slices. • Milk. Go plain and lower-fat. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
Snack Switch Up Trade your treat! Choose nutrient-rich snacks. • Raw veggies + hummus • An apple + cheese cubes • A couple of dates + nut butter • ½ whole grain bagel + strawberries
Sub Take Out for “Cook-In”! Bring back kitchen fun by switching up how you cook and serve meals: • Invent your own taco, fajita or salad bar. • Make pizzas with whole grain flat bread. • Prepare hearty sandwiches for supper.
Bump Up Nutrition! • Add lentils to ground meat. • Sub plain Greek yogurt for sour cream or mayonnaise. • Replace half of the white flour with whole grain flour in baked goods. • Swap ¼ of the sugar in baking recipes with skim milk powder.
Nutrition Month 2016 Take the 100 meal journey. Make small changes, one meal at a time. www.NutritionMonth2016.ca www.dietitian.ca/find