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NUTRITION UPDATE March 12, 2020 Jen Yates, RD Healthy and Safe Communities Public Health Todays Agenda Refresher on Paint Your Plate with vegetables and fruit toolkit and using it in your child care centre Canadas Food Guide and

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NUTRITION UPDATE

Healthy and Safe Communities

March 12, 2020

Public Health

Jen Yates, RD

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Today’s Agenda

Refresher on Paint Your Plate with vegetables

and fruit toolkit and using it in your child care centre

Canada’s Food Guide and child care
Nutrition resources for your centre
Online nutrition training modules
Allergy resource for cooks
Outside Food Policy sample
Needs assessment

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Paint Your Plate toolkit

https://www.odph.ca/childcare-resources

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What’s in the toolkit?

Background – approach and key messages
Responsive Feeding Practices – making mealtime

enjoyable

Supportive Environments – to encourage healthy

eating

Policies – samples you can use
Menu Planning and Recipes
Activities – 13 ideas for program learning times
Supporting and Engaging Families – sample

newsletters, tips and resources

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Phrases/Actions that Help and Hinder at Child Care

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How the toolkit can be used in your child care setting

Use helpful phrases and actions in response to common eating

situations to encourage a supportive nutrition environment

Develop one or more nutrition policies that align with your centre
Integrate recipes and menu planning tips into menu
Use Paint Your Plate activities for daily activities
Feature a seasonal recipe in the centre’s newsletter
Display the Paint Your Plate posters in the halls, in each classroom,

and at the entrance to the child care centre.

Display vegetable and fruit fact sheets for parents to take home.

Post the sheets beside your menu.

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Four Free Online Training Modules

https://www.odph.ca/online-learning-modules

1) Introduction and Choosing Food 2) Amounts to Prepare for Cooks 3) Planning and Revising a Menu 4) Creating a Supportive Nutrition Environment and Resources

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Module 1: Introduction and Choosing Foods

Part 1 - Introduction and Choosing Food
For child care operators, supervisors, cooks and staff

who are working in the child care setting, these online courses will help you understand and apply the nutrition recommendations outlined in the Menu Planning & Supportive Nutrition Environments in Child Care Settings

Practical Guide.
Duration: 20 minutes

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Module 2: Amounts to Prepare (for cooks)

Part 2 - Amounts to Prepare (for cooks)
Learn about recommended portion sizes to inform how

much food to prepare, family-style meals and feeding young children positively.

Duration: 10 minutes

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Module 3: Planning and Revising a Menu

Part 3 - Planning and Revising a Menu
This module will cover menu planning for child care
settings. This includes what to offer at meal and snack

time and menu planning considerations when feeding young children.

Duration: 15 minutes

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Module 4: Creating a Supportive Nutrition Environment and Resources

Part 4 - Creating a Supportive Nutrition Environment

and Resources

This module will include information on how to support

children to become competent and capable eaters. This includes maintaining the Division of Responsibility in feeding and creating positive mealtimes. Additional resources for child care staff will also be reviewed.

Duration: 20 minutes

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Ideas on how to watch the modules with your staff

Watch during staff meetings all at once or one at a time

(65 min total)

Staff watch on their own
Have a discussion after each module
Decide how to apply the learning

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Sample Policy: Outside Food

https://www.odph.ca/sample-policies-in-child-care-settings

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Ontario Dietitians in Public Health – Child Care Resources

https://www.odph.ca/child-care-resources

Menu Planning and Supportive Nutrition

Environment in Child Care Settings - Practical Guide

Menu and Nutrition Environment Self-

Assessment Checklist

Common Food Allergens Substitutions for

Child Care Settings (coming soon)

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Canada’s Food Guide – NEW!

Released January 2019

“Healthy eating is more than the foods you

eat”. Cook more often, enjoy food, and eat with others. Make water your drink of choice.

Eat plenty of vegetables and fruits, whole

grain foods and plant-based protein foods. Limit highly processed foods.

Use food labels. Be aware that food

marketing can influence your choices.

To access the food guide and all of the
nline resources, visit

www.Canada.ca/FoodGuide

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Hamilton Public Health - Free Nutrition Workshops for Childcare:

Cook’s Network – Food Allergies and Food Allergens Substitutions for cooks Date: Spring date to be determined Location: ASCY, 526 Upper Paradise Rd. in Hamilton Register: 905-574-6876 x222 or online on ASCY website More workshops coming in the fall

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