Eat Right Ontario - My Menu Planner

This site is an amazing tool to assist you in eating healthy and planning your healthy goals.  It allows you to personalize a menu that works for your sex, age and goals.  Some of the specific individualized goals include:

• Healthy Weight, Healthy You
• Eat Right for Less
• Easting for an Active Lifestyle
• Cooking for One or Two
• Eating Right the Vegetarian Way

Please click here to visit the Eat Right Ontario website and start working towards your personal goals today!

Understanding Canada's Food Guide 

Health Canada produces the Canada's Food Guide to assist Canadians to ensure that we are eating enough nutrients from each of the food groups.  The food guide separates foods into major groupings: Vegetables and Fruit, Grain Products, Milk and Alternatives and Meat and Alternatives.  Our Healthy Choices Program has put together a guide to help you better understand how to use the food guide. 

If you would like to learn more about understanding the Canada's Food Guide, you can Click Here or call the centre for a copy.

If you would like a copy of the Canada's Food guide or other useful information, please follow the links below:

• Canada's Food Guide
• Food Guide for First Nations, Inuit or Metis 
• Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living

 National Labels - Packaging on Food

 

The information found on the Nutrition Facts label gives us the power to understand and then make informed choices about the foods and drinks we consume.  Knowing 'how' to read these labels gives us more skill than ever to make the best choices possible for our health.

For help in understanding the labels please Click Here or call the centre for a copy of the guide.

 

 Thunder Bay Good Food Box Program

What is the Good Food Box?

The Good Food Box is a non-profit program for families and individuals who want to purchase quality, fresh, local produce at a lower price than shopping at grocery stores.

You can purchase a family box for $20 or an individual box for $12. Boxes are ordered and paid for by the first Thursday of each month. Food is packed and distributed from a main site to local host sites for pick up the second last Thursday of each month. This means food is accessible at a time when some have less money available for buying food.

For more information please click the logo.