Planning Meals

You can use Canada's Food Guide to arrange meals for yourself, your family or friends.
Planning meals helps you:

• Eat well by varying your food selections throughout the day and week;
• Save time by planning and searching ahead and reducing visits to the grocery store; and
• Get meals on the table faster with less stress
• Meal planning does not have to take lots of time! be intimate once or double every week once you write out your searching list. The more you arrange the simpler it gets. A little coming up with goes an extended approach in serving to you have got healthy intake habits.

Planning Tips

Involve children in coming up with and making ready meals. They'll appreciate the meal additional and learn vital life skills. You may even find yourself with a capable cook by your side!
Getting started:
1. Menu plan - Use a piece of paper, calendar, or a menu planner to jot down your meal ideas.
2. Grocery list - Write down the foods you need for ensuing few days or week.
3. Go shopping - get the foods you wish on your grocery list.
4. Start change of state - Post your meal arrange on the icebox thus whoever gets home initial will begin the meal.

Meal Planning Checklist:

• Eat at least one dark green and one orange vegetable every day.
• Choose vegetables and fruit with very little or no another fat, sugar or salt.
• Have vegetables and fruit more typically than juice.
• Make at least half your grain merchandise whole grain every day.
• Choose grain merchandise that area unit lower in fat, sugar or salt.
• Drink skim, 1% or two milk every day. Drink fortified soy beverage if you do not drink milk.
• Select lower fat milk alternatives.
• Have meat alternatives such as beans, lentils and tofu typically.
• Choose at least 2 Food Guide Servings of fish hebdomadally.
• Select lean meat and alternatives ready with very little or no another fat or salt.
• Include a tiny quantity of unsaturated fat every day.
• Satisfy your thirst with water.
• Limit foods and beverages high in calories, fat, sugar or salt.