Healthy Abbotsford

Using the "My Profile" Feature

My profile gives you the power to pick and choose the ideas for action that interest you and email or print them on your own custom page. While surfing through the entire “Get involved” section if you see something you like click "add to my profile". When you are done surfing click "view my profile" to view all your choices. No sign-up required just click away!

List Nutritional Information on Your Menu

Make healthy choices easy choices

Take the mystery out of eating out. Help your customers make better informed food choices by listing the nutrition information on your menus.

Show your customers that you care about their health.

Offer Tasty Healthy Options

Eating healthy shouldn't feel like punishment

Eating out is something that most people really enjoy. But it can be hard, most of us are trying to eat healthier which often results in not eating out. Offer your customers another option, a healthy option when eating out. Put more healthy options on your menu and make sure that we know which ones they are. Let's bring back the fun and enjoyment of eating out with friends and family, with good, nutritious food.

For tips on how to make healthier recipes visit here.

Offer Sensible Meal Sizes or Half Size Options

Help customers overcome portion distortion

Lack of awareness of portion sizes is one of the key factors in obesity. It is so prevalent that the term “portion distortion” as now become a common phrase. Help your patrons eat healthier by providing portions that support the guidelines listed in Canada’s Food Guide.

Worried that your customers will feel like the get less value if there is less food? Market these menu items in a way that highlights the focus on health and price the portions accordingly.

Start or Sponsor a Community Kitchen

Be a leader in promoting healthy cooking

Good things happen when people gather to cook for themselves, and for each other. They make new friends. They expand what they know about nutrition. They eat better.

Learning basic kitchen skills helps people provide for themselves while saving money. They develop the spirit of teamwork, because the dishes that each community kitchen makes are divided among its members at the end of each kitchen session – everyone goes home with the feeling of a job well done, and with well-made food for that evening or days to come. (or longer still, when dishes can be frozen.).

To learn how to start a community kitchen click here.

To locate existing community kitchens that you could sponsor click here.