The Canadian Egg Marketing Agency and the Canadian Dietetic Association have joined forces to remind Canadians about the importance of a balanced diet during nutrition month in Canada. Anne Kennedy, a registered dietitian, has put together some useful nutrition tips.
Everyone knows good nutrition is essential to normal growth and development during childhood, but should parents impose their eating patterns on their kids? The nutrition experts suggest you should not.
Children need adequate energy and essential nutrients for growth and development. Sometimes a child’s need for food energy is not compatible with a parent’s need to maintain a healthy weight.
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Health Canada and the Canadian Pediatric Society re-examined the issues related to dietary fat and children. Research findings indicate when children were placed on a low-fat diet they had problems meeting their energy and nutrient needs.
In the final report, Nutrition Recommendations Update: Dietary Fat and Children, experts concluded that during childhood, emphasis should be placed on a diet that provides adequate energy for growth and eating patterns that emphasize a variety of foods, especially complex carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables and some lower fat foods.
Children need a more flexible fat intake to support their growth and energy needs. They also need to be exposed to a wide range of foods, including some low-fat ones, so they will accept low-fat foods when their energy needs start to drop following puberty.
Here are some tips for a healthy eating style:
* Be active. Watch less TV and get moving, walking, biking and playing. Regular activity is important for maintaining a healthy weight.
* Choose a variety of foods and enjoy all foods in moderation. The more often children are exposed to a food, the more likely they will taste it and learn to accept it. This is important for developing a taste for lower fat foods.
* Eat breakfast. It gets your mind and body fueled for the day.
* Eat lots of whole grain foods.
* Include a fruit or vegetable in every meal or snack.
* Choose lower fat, high quality protein sources like eggs, lean meat, fish, chicken and legumes.
* Go easy on commercial snack foods. They are usually high in fat and salt. Serve fruit, cereal and unsalted crackers for snacks.
Baby love
I would like to draw the reader’s attention to a useful Canadian specialty catalogue that was sent to me after writing about being an expectant parent. It is called Baby Love Products, and it is filled with new products for children of all ages and also contains helpful parenting tips. The catalogue was designed to provide practical items that help save time and create a fun, safe and healthy home for children. For more information contact: Baby Love Products, 5015 – 46th St., Camrose, Alta., T4V 3G3.
Reader requests
Dear TEAM: I am looking for information on how to build a “Peche” clay oven. I would like the person’s name and address who sent the information to you in the Jan. 25, 1996 issue. – T.A., Saskatoon, Sask.
TEAM Resources would like to thank our reader for sharing her information on the “Peche.” However, we did not get her address on file. Perhaps, it could be forwarded to TEAM.
Dear TEAM: I would like a recipe for Pizza Pop dough without lard and, if possible, using canola oil. – S.L., Edenwold, Sask.
Dear S.L.: Many consumers are becoming aware of canola oil’s nutritional benefits. Canola oil has the best fatty acid ratio, being low in saturated fats and high in monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids, and like all vegetable oils, canola oil is cholesterol free. For conversion from solid fat to canola oil in recipes, a chart has been provided.
1 cup fat 14 tablespoons oil
3Ú4 cup 10 tablespoons
1Ú2 cup 7 tablespoons
1Ú4 cup 31Ú 3 tablespoons
Pizza Pop dough
2 tablespoons yeast 30 mL
1 cup warm water 250 mL
14 tablespoons 210 mL
canola oil
2 cups milk 500 mL
2 tablespoons sugar 30 mL
2 eggs 2
11Ú2 teaspoons salt 7 mL
flour to make dough soft
Mix dough and roll out as you would for a pie crust. Cut into circles. Place the cooled filling and seal the edges. Bake at 350 F (180 C) for 10-15 minutes or until browned. This dough recipe can be used for all kinds of pizza topping/filling recipes.
Dough recipe from Blake Beattie School at Hudson Bay, Sask.
Pickling garlic
Dear TEAM: Sometime last fall a lady from Lethbridge asked for a pickled garlic recipe. I am enclosing one that my daughter brought back from a trip to Austria.
Take two to four heads of garlic (depending on size) separate and peel the cloves. Then take one cup (250 mL) of wine vinegar (white is preferred), one bay leaf, four juniper berries (optional), two tablespoons (25 mL) sugar, 1Ú2 teaspoon (2 mL) pickling salt and bring to a boil. Add garlic cloves and simmer 10-15 minutes. Fill a clean jar and put a hot pepper on top, if desired, and scald. I use this recipe and find it very satisfactory. – E.K., Lethbridge, Alta.
Safe air fresheners
From The Canadian Green
Consumer Guide:
* As the fresh spring air arrives, open your windows!
* When cooking strong smelling foods, simmer a pot of vinegar on the stove to absorb odors.
* Wrap a stick of cinnamon, orange peel and some cloves in cheesecloth and simmer gently in water. Make up your own spice combinations.
* Potpourri in a dish or basket is attractive. Buy it in bulk or make your own. Refresh with essential oils occasionally.
* Fill a large flat basket with a mixture of your favorite dried herbs, flowers and spices.
* You can also use house plants to freshen and clean your air. Some that are effective are philodendron, spider plant, snake plant or mother-in-law’s tongue, pot mum, aloe plant, bamboo or reed palm, dracaena, gerbera daisy, dragon tree, golden pothos or devil’s ivy, english ivy, banana tree, peace lily or spathe flower.
Recipe correction
Dear C.W.: TEAM resources would like to apologize for the misprint of your Fruit Snaps recipe. The recipe should have called for one cup (250 mL) of vegetable shortening rather than vegetable oil. Again, thank you for sending in your recipe, it is greatly appreciated.
Complete place settings
Dear TEAM: I have been trying for a long time to obtain certain dishes to complete a set. They are called Queen Anne Royal Bavarian China, Germany, pattern Tuxedo. They were sold during the 1970s along with stainless steel pots and pans, also flatware, at house parties similar to Tupperware. I would be grateful to find four place settings or more, if possible. – E.F., Watrous, Sask.
Dear E.F.: My sister, Donalda, was able to give me an old address and telephone number she had with her cookware and from that I got leads on a new location, as follows: Worldwide Distributors, 469 St. Mary’s Road, Winnipeg, Man., R2M 3K9, 204-233-8587.
That company has the place settings you are looking for in the Tuxedo pattern, as well as other patterns. It has two patterns left in the Oneida flatware – Grandeur and Granada – plus replacement handles, knobs, shields and legs for skillets. Any readers requiring parts can write or phone to order what they need.
We received a set of Lifetime cookware from my husband’s parents when we were first married. When I ordered replacement handles and knobs several years ago, the company replaced them at no cost. My sister-in-law, Wanda, gave me this address: International Home Products, 4807 Kent Ave., Niagara Falls, Ont., L2H 1J5, 905-356-4900.
E.B. of Abbotsford, B.C. sent this address for pot handles: Clinique de la Casserole Inc., 7561 St. Hubert, Montreal, Que., H2R 2N7, 514-270-8544. We found another phone number for WearEver Pots, as well: Supreme/Mirro Company, 1-800-527-7727.
