Healthy eating is a natural outcome of garden-based education. Get started here!
This document provides schools with a set of nutrition standards.
This guide supports a range of healthy fundraising ideas that can support your school goals.
Secondary schools around the Province are finding exciting ways to offer and promote healthier food choices, and encourage healthy living practices amongst students. From January-April 2009, leaders from these schools submitted their healthy living stories to the healthyeatingatschool.ca website, hosted by the BC Dairy Foundation to share information about the people and programs inspiring their staff and students to lead healthier, more active lifestyles.
Each month, up to ten submissions were randomly drawn and the winning schools received 60 free pedometers from 2010 Legacies Now for sharing their stories. Winners from this contest included:
The pedometer incentive is a 2010 Legacies Now initiative supported by ActNow BC through the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport.
Explore the challenges of nutrition education and lunchtime at school.
Find out how the PAC lunch program at Dorothy Lynas Elementary in School District 44 was able to generate the same amount of funds using the new School Guidelines despite higher food costs.
Learn how Burnaby Mountain Secondary in School District 41 successfully introduced soups into the menu.
Find out how oatmeal became a popular and affordable item with students on a breakfast program in Prince George.
Explore the challenges of nutrition education and lunchtime at school.
Learn how to successfully provide healthy food choices through meal programs, vending machines and fundraising.
Meet a few champions who made nutrition policy a priority in their schools.
Making it Happen: Healthy Eating at School
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