Healthy eating - children
Practical advice
Whom should you contact to get help?
To find out what nutritional services for children are available in your neighbourhood:
Contact the dietician-nutritionist at your local community service centre (CLSC).
To find out what nutritional services are provided at your child's elementary school:
Contact your school board's dietician-nutritionist:
Where can you find credible information?
Dietary behaviour at the table
Breakfast
Lunch and lunch boxes
Snacks
Fruits and vegetables
Hydration
Growth and healthy weight
Hygiene and food safety
Food allergies
Dietary behaviour at the table
Are you worried about your child's refusal to eat certain things? Food aversions are most common between the ages of 2 and 5. For more information, click on the following links:
Breakfast
Your children need a good breakfast to start get their day off to a good start and to nourish their ability to learn! For more information, check out the following links:
Lunch and lunch boxes
Looking for new things to serve for lunch and put in your children's lunch boxes? Check out the following links:
- Hints and tips for children's lunches
- Ideas and recipes for colourful, varied and nutritious lunch boxes:
- Advice on how to keep food fresh in a lunch box:
Snacks
Nutritive snacks provide energy and nutrients that are important to a child's health. Click on the following links for ideas that will help you choose your snacks:
Fruits and vegetables
Are you finding it hard to get your children to eat fruits and vegetables? Here are a few links that might help:
- Recettes amusantes et attrayantes pour les enfants intégrant des légumes et des fruits
- Tips on how to get your children to eat more fruits and vegetables:
Hydration
Encourage your children to drink the right amount of healthy beverages!
- Conseils pour bien s’hydrater
- Information on sweetened drinks:
Healthy growth and healthy weight
For more information on your children’s healthy growth and healthy weight, check out the following links:
- Childhood obesity
- Conseils pour une saine gestion du poids chez vos enfants
- Pas de régimes pour les enfants!
- Daily physical activity also plays an important role in reaching and maintaining a healthy weight. For more information, see the "Physical activity" page.
Hygiene and food safety
It's important that your children start learning the principles of hygiene and food safety at an early age. For more information, click on the following links:
Food allergies
Most food allergies start during childhood. For more information, check out the following links:
