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Nutrition Month – Reflection Time!
Fraser Health has been a huge a supporter of Nutrition Month this year, featuring what dietitians in the health authority have done last month. They featured two of us dietitians as we chronicled our 100 meal journey. As a way to end off the month, they asked me the below questions. It was an excuse…
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Easy 20 Minute Chili
I was challenged by the Fraser Health Communications team to provide the following: Share your favourite healthy dinner recipe. It has to be ready in 20 minutes or less, easy to make on a budget, simple for non-cooks and kid-friendly: Go! (No cheating with easy prep salads, there has to be some “cooking” involved!) The FIRST…
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I’m finally on Facebook!
I’ve finally expanded to the world of Facebook – find me here and like my page! And continue to stay posted on Twitter and Instagram!
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Nutrition Month – Make It Stick!
Can you believe it’s already the end of March? That also means it’s the FINAL week of Nutrition Month! This week’s theme is making it stick, where you can bring together all you’ve learned to make the small changes this month turn into long term life style habits while overcoming those barriers that may prevent these…
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Nutrition Month – Try Something New!
Happy week FOUR of Nutrition Month (and happy first couple days of spring!) This week’s theme is trying something new, where eating healthy doesn’t have to taste bland and.. well.. healthy. The goal this week is to try new flavours, foods and meals and really boosting the nomaliciousness of your dishes. Here’s some tips from…
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Nutrition Month – Prioritize Portion Size!
Today kicks off week THREE of Nutrition Month! This week’s theme is prioritizing portion sizes to make individuals aware of selecting realistic portion sizes during their 100 Meal Journey. How much you eat can be just as important as what you eat. Eating portions that are too big can lead to overeating and weight gain. Here’s a few…
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Nutrition Month – My 100 Meal Pledge!
This week is the start Week Two for Nutrition Month focussing on making food decisions that support individuals’ goals. For those of you following me on Instagram or Twitter, you probably found out yesterday that my 100 Meal Journey pledge is to eat 1 additional serving size of vegetables each day by packing it as one…
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Nutrition Month – 100 Meal Journey
Can you believe it’s already the end of the month (and happy birthday to all those Leap year babies out there!) March is Nutrition Month where all RD’s nerd out and promote nutrition care, advocate for our profession and have fun with a yearly new theme for the month! This year it’s 100 Meal Journey…
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Easy-Peasy Homemade Granola
My lunches have been lacking substance (or maybe my metabolism has been off) since I’ve been super hungry the past few months. I’m pretty bad at consuming enough calcium (not a huge fan of milk/alternatives except for cheese) so I’ve been trying to figure out a way to get more Ca into my diet. I…
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English Daisy
Is it just me or is this year already flying by? My goal of blogging weekly hasn’t been as successful because of a very hectic past couple weeks but I’ll be getting back to the blogging thang after this week – it’s been a not-so-fun bit of time painting our place and discovering the challenges…
Whitney Hussain, RD 