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Pressed for time? Here are some quick, easy & affordable recipes you can try this week
Weeknight dinners can be stressful, so here are 5 quick & affordable recipes you can try this week.
Health Leaders Welcome Investments in School Food Programs, Poverty Reduction and Active Transportation in 2023 Budget
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, B.C., February 28, 2023 –The BC Alliance for Healthy Living (BCAHL) commends the government for investments in school food programs, active transportation and increases to income and disability assistance rates. “Over the past few years, we have been increasingly worried about the deteriorating health of low-income British Columbians due to the…
Stressed About Healthy Back-to-School Lunches? We’ve Got Ideas for You
It’s that time of the year again: summer is winding down, we’re rushing to get school supplies, and some of us are wracking our brains about what to put in our kids’ lunchboxes as we send them off to school. Remember, your kids’ lunches don’t always have to be complex or time-consuming to make. Sometimes,…
#MoreThanFood
The revised Canada food guide has got me thinking about how I eat. Am I enjoying my food? Am I being mindful of eating it? Am I sharing meals with others? Or am I wolfing something down in front of a screen over lunch to answer a few more emails? Or am I eating an…
Healthy School Programs, Healthy Kids
On January 16th, the BC Alliance for Healthy Living hosted an informative webinar on healthy school programs. We heard from the BC Recreation and Parks Association (BCRPA) and the BC Chapter of the Coalition for Healthy School Food, who shared their insights and spoke about two unique projects that they deliver to increase kids’ health…
Help a parent out!
I hate grocery shopping. Although I am incredibly grateful to be able to pay for groceries without incurring debt (most months anyway), shopping for healthy food with my kiddos (ages 5 and 2) can be a wee bit overwhelming. My kids light up with desire the moment we push our cart down the aisle. In…
#NutritionMonth, #foodliteracy and the #earlyyears
March is #NutritionMonth and to celebrate Dietitians of Canada have produced five colourful, useful and fun fact sheets about unlocking the potential of food.
The True Cost of Healthy Eating
Making healthy food choices can be challenging in today’s food landscape with packed schedules, long commutes and the prevalence and convenience of fast foods luring us into bad decisions on empty stomachs.
Hey Gushers, Leave our Kids Alone!
Previously I wrote about how my son went on a vegetable-eating strike a few months’ shy of his second birthday. Today at 4 years old, he has not picked up a veggie OR put down his picket sign.
Space Carrots and Broccoli Brains – my son is having none of it
My son does not eat vegetables. No way. Not having it. Not going to make me. The last time he put a vegetable in his mouth -and actually chewed and swallowed it- (yup, those are counted as steps in our house), was a pudgy fistful of peas when he was just over a year and…
The kids are not alright:
How the food and beverage industry is marketing our children and youth to death. Once upon a time marketing to kids mostly meant commercials on Saturday morning; many adults have fond memories of ads that featured cartoon characters from their favourite sugary cereals. Television commercials are still a major ad platform and mascots still hawk…
“Trick or Treat?”
Hallowe’en has already landed at my house with bats and pumpkins up on every window. Physical activity levels were way up on Friday night at the elementary school dance, where my older child danced with friends and the younger one spent two hours running around in some elaborate game of chase with his grade one…

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