This week’s theme is Supper! Share your favourite meatless supper recipe with us and be entered to WIN!!! Practice the “perfect plate!” Fill ½ your plate with vegetables, ¼ of your plate with a whole grain and ¼ of your plate with a lean protein! While cooking from scratch is ideal, a “healthier” pre-packaged meal is [...]
It’s SNACK time!!! What is your favorite snack combination? Snacks should include two food groups! Fibre + Protein = Fullness! Choose sources of each at your snacks- hardboiled egg/veggies, 10-12 almonds/fruit, fruit/Greek yogurt, veggies/hummus. Skip the fat-free! Fat tastes good, so often the “fat-free” products have higher levels of sugar and/or salt. Choose 1% sodium reduced [...]
This week’s theme is LUNCH!!! Share your favourite low sodium lunch find with us and be entered to WIN!!! Leftovers are a great timesaver for lunch; however, the vegetable portion is often low! Ramp up your leftovers to include a full half-plate serving of vegetables! Sick of salad? Warm up your leftovers over a [...]
March is Nutrition Month! Best Food Forward: Plan, Shop, Cook, Enjoy! Healthy eating begins at the grocery store. It’s where most consumers purchase much of their food. Yet this is also where they are faced with a multitude of choices. This year’s Nutrition Month Campaign– Best Food Forward: Plan Shop Cook Enjoy! – is dedicated [...]
Need help with your New Year’s Resolutions?! Looking to turn over a new leaf in 2013? Ready for a sustainable lifestyle approach? You’re in luck! Two of our programs still have space for YOU! Healthy Habits: 8 Weeks to a New and Improved You Mondays @ Canada Games Center (7-8pm) 8 weeks (starts Monday, [...]
Welcome 2013!!! It’s time to plan for a happy & healthy new year ahead! How can we help? Bent Fork Nutrition is offering a few great new programs, in addition to our regular nutrition services available here! Post Holiday Cleanse- 3 Weeks @ the Canada Games Center (Mondays @ 6pm) Over-did it [...]
Bent Fork Nutrition is proud (and very excited) to be involved in the first ever, Sole Sisters Running event! Sole Sisters is the first, local running event created for women, by women! Participation in the 5km event gets you all kinds of goodies: gorgeous race shirts finishers medal has glitter and spins free workshops at [...]
March is National Nutrition Month! This year’s theme is “Get the Real Deal on Your Meal!” Nutrition information has never been more accessible than right now; millions of Canadians have ready access to the Internet and social media is exploding with nutrition and food advice. This year’s Nutrition Month Campaign – Get the Real Deal on [...]
Healthy Habits is an 8-week group program that focuses on two main areas: nutrition education & weight loss! Weekly 1hr sessions, focus on providing the information and tools needed to be successful long term–label reading, menu planning, restaurant eating, hydration, fat, fibre & more! In addition to the discussion topics, there are weekly calorie controlled [...]
Our 8-Week Healthy Habits course is BACK! Just in time to shape up for summer! Healthy Habits is an 8-week group program that focuses on two main areas: nutrition education & weight loss! Weekly 1hr sessions, focus on providing the information & tools needed to be successful long term–label reading, menu planning, restaurant eating, hydration, [...]