News and Highlights

Introducing the Eat Smart!^® Choices Calculator, a new user-friendly tool to help evaluate single serving packaged food products to determine whether or not they qualify as Eat Smart!^® choices for the Eat Smart!^® Workplace and Recreation Centre Programs. Single-serving packaged food products can be sold in vending machines, snack bars, cafés, tuck shops or “grab-and-go” stations in cafeterias. The Calculator is designed to be used by public health staff, food service staff, workplace or recreation centre staff, and consumers.

The first Eat Smart!^® Workplace Cafeteria Recipe Contest, held in March and April, 2010 was conducted by the City of Hamilton Public Health Services in partnership with Healthy Living Hamilton. In the spirit of a little healthy competition, Eat Smart! Workplace cafeteria chefs/cooks were challenged to enter their favourite recipe in a recipe contest! Each recipe was required to be an entrée prepared using a low fat cooking method as well as vegetables or fruit, and be an original recipe of the contestant.

The Eat Smart!® Recreation Centre Program toolkit is now available on-line at
http://www.eatsmartontario.ca/toolkits/. This toolkit provides resources and information for health units that are implementing the Eat Smart!® Recreation Centre Program.

View the report on the evaluation of the Eat Smart!^® Recreation Centre Program Pilot Project.

NOTE: This report is a very large PDF (over 8MB) and can take several minutes to download.