Making it Happen: Healthy Eating at School

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  • Healthy Eating Starts Here
  • Take Action

    When it comes to healthy eating at school, everyone can get involved. Check this section to inspire your school community and get the ball rolling!

    Resources

    This section provides information and resources that help modelling healthy eating and active living habits for students.

    Community Partners & Associations

    Building a supportive environment that emphasizes healthy foods and reinforces positive messages requires the efforts of many people at many levels, including school staff, families, and community partners and associations.

  • Research & Reports

    This section provides access to research articles and reports on the importance of healthy eating on student performance and well-being.

    Nutrition Policies

    This section provides guidelines for developing your own nutrition policy and examples of school nutrition policies across BC.

    Success Stories

    In this section, schools share their successes and challenges in implementing a school nutrition policy.

  • School Assessment Tool

    Healthy Eating At School: How is your school doing?

    Download the School Healthy Eating Assessment Tool and find out what is working well and where action can be taken!

  • Popular Resources

    Simple Recipe Modifications And Brand Name Food List Key To Successful Changes

    Find out how the chef instructor at Vernon Secondary in School District 22 made changes in her cafeteria menu.

    Take Action on FOOD AT SCHOOL

    Check these ideas for making the healthy choice the easy choice and developing an environment that supports nutrition.

    Recipe Substitutions and Salad Bar

    Find out how the chef instructor at David Thompson Secondary in School District 6 runs a very successful cafeteria.

    Offering students tasty, healthy foods that they will purchase

    The chef instructor at Dover Bay Secondary in School District 68 is very successful at offering tasty, healthy foods that students are purchasing.

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    Explore the challenges of nutrition education and lunchtime at school.

    Vignette #2

    Learn how to successfully provide healthy food choices through meal programs, vending machines and fundraising.

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    Meet a few champions who made nutrition policy a priority in their schools.

    Order your free copy of the vignettes

  • Helpful Links

    • Action Schools! BC
    • ActNow BC
    • BC Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC)
    • BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils (BCCPAC)
    • BC Dairy Foundation
    • BC Healthy Living Alliance
    • BC Ministry of Education
    • BC School Trustees Association (BCSTA)
    • Brand Name Food List
    • Canadian Association for School Health (CASH)
    • Dial-A-Dietitian
    • Dietitians of Canada
    • Directorate of Agencies for School Health (DASH)
    • Healthy Schools Network
  • Success Stories

    • Ecole Chalmers Elementary Promotes Healthy Lunch Guidelines
    • Secondary Schools Share their Healthy Living Stories with 2010 Legacies Now
    • Action Schools! BC Helps Students to Make Healthy Choices
    • Soup Cellar
    • Plymouth Elementary School’s PAC Promotes Healthy Snacks
    • Moving Toward a Healthier Educational Community:Dragon Lake Elementary’s Voyage to Improve Health, Nutrition and Fitness
    • Successful fundraising organized by parents
    • Students Choose Cafeteria Foods Despite Proximity of Outside Food Outlets
    • Simple Recipe Modifications And Brand Name Food List Key To Successful Changes
    • Offering students tasty, healthy foods that they will purchase
  • Ideas for Action

    • Take Action: SCHOOL MEAL PROVIDERS
    • Take Action: DISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS
    • Take Action: SCHOOL TRUSTEES
    • Take Action: STUDENTS
    • Take Action: TEACHERS
    • Take Action on HEALTHY EATING
    • Take Action IN THE CLASSROOM
    • Take Action on FUNDRAISING
    • Take Action: PRINCIPALS
    • Take Action: PARENTS
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