COVID-19 Info | Information sur la COVID-19 | COVID-19 Vaccine Vaccine Receipt | COVID-19 Self-Assessment
🔍 Search
  • Follow us:
Sign In FR

Middlesex-London Health Unit

🔍Search
🔍
Home
Inner Nav

Creating a Supportive Food Environment

Schools can create supportive food environments, where students can develop a positive relationship with food and their bodies, and learn lifelong positive eating habits. Visit BrightBites.ca for a range of tools/resources on managing mealtimes, school gardening, fundraising practices, and more!

Featured Resources:

School Nutrition Policies: 

Why It Matters: 

Students consume about one-third of their daily food at school. A well-nourished student is better able to focus, think, and learn.2

  • Ontario School Food and Beverage Policy (P/PM 150)
    This Ministry of Education policy sets nutrition standards for all food and beverages sold in publicly funded elementary and secondary schools.
  • Going Beyond P/PM 150
    Strengthen your school's food environment by creating a policy for:
    • Fundraising
    • Classroom celebrations and rewards
    • Food served at meetings and events
 
Date of creation: January 21, 2013
Last modified on: May 8, 2025

References

1Joint Consortium for School Health. (2009). Addressing Substance Use in Canadian Schools: School-Family-Community Partnerships. Retrieved from
http://www.jcsh-cces.ca/upload/JCSH%20Substance%20Use%20Toolkit%20SchoolFamilyCommunity%20v1.pdf
2Saskatchewan Ministry of Education (2009). Nourishing Minds – Towards Comprehensive School Community Health: Nutrition Policy Development in Saskatchewan Schools. Retrieved from Retrieved from
http://www.education.gov.sk.ca/nourishing-minds/
3Bevans, K.B., Sanchez, B., Teneralli, R., Forrest, C.B. (2011). Children’s eating behavior: The importance of nutrition standards for foods in schools. The Journal of School Health, 81(7), 424-429.