A Practical and User-Friendly Guide: Breakfast + Snacks + Lunches

This free brochure provides information, advice and recipes for making healthy and balanced breakfasts, snacks and lunches.

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A guide for families

Planning and preparing breakfasts, lunches and snacks isn’t always easy!

This comprehensive guide lends families a helping hand with:

  • Tips and tricks inspired by everyday life
  • Ideas and recipes for preparing breakfasts, snacks and lunches
  • A practical tool to get kids involved in making their own lunches

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Guide pratique et sympathique
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A Practical and User-Friendly Guide
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Partnership

This guide was developed by the team of Registered Dietitians at Dairy Farmers of Canada in partnership with the Quebec Produce Marketing Association (QPMA).

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Grade
Multi level
Theme
Lunch
Theme
Breakfast
Theme
Snacks
Language
Bilingual

In the guide, be sure to check out the tips from:

A nutritionist mom

A handy cook

A creative dad

 

Did you know?

25% of lunches among 7- to 13-year-olds were balanced
2 out of 3 lunches contained one or more sugary foods
2 out of 3 lunches contained fruit or vegetables
1 out of 2 lunches contained dairy products or a fortified soy beverage

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