Nutrition
Resources/Classes
Canada Food Giude
Canada's Food Guide is a great resource for parents. The website now has an interactive tool called My Food Guide that allows you to personalize the information found in Canada's Food Guide.
Sobeys and Superstore
- What: Both stores have registered dieticians on staff and often hold free classes such as "Label Reading" and Nutritional Snack/Meal Preparation for parents.
Greater Moncton Family Resource Centre
- What: Collective Kitchen - 2 sessions
- When: Offered once a month
- Where: Mapleton Teaching Kitchen Inc.
- Cost: small fee to cover the cost of the ingredients
- Contact: 384-7874 or visit www.frc-crf.com/moncton
- Comments: Participants will take their prepared meal home
Tips for getting your child to eat:
- If a child does not like a food, keep serving it. Some studies suggest that a child needs to try a food at least ten times before truly knowing whether they like it.
- If a child is getting tired of a food or says they don't like it, try cutting or presenting it differently. Slice bananas and stand them vertically and call them banana towers, or arrange the food to like a flower or happy face.
- To ward off whinning, hungry children while you're cooking supper, slice some raw carrots, cucumber or peppers for them to snack on while waiting for supper to be cooked.
- Keep a regular schedule of mealtimes and snacktimes
- Make sure snacktimes aren't too close to mealtimes and monitor the amount of liquids consumed between meals as this may spoil their appetite.
- Try not to allow food to become an object of blackmail or hold dessert hostage.
- Offer small servings and provide a wide variety.
Visit the OTCS's I Love This for other tips and tricks parents like to use.