Quick and Healthy Dinner Menus For A Week

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Quick and Healthy Dinner Menus For A Week

• An easy-to-use tool to put together healthy
  dinner meals

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Development of a Patient Education Tool

• As Diabetes Educators and Dietitians, we are
  asked every day-
• What should I eat?

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Target Group

• Women between the ages of 25-45 identify lack of
  time for meal planning and preparation as the
  biggest challenge to eating well.
• 2003 Report on the Healthy Eating Challenges
  Facing Women, Dietitians of Canada Survey

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Challenges

• Many women know the healthy eating message, but
  lack the skills to put it all together.
• Offering a healthy living message
• that also meets the needs of people living with
  chronic diseases

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Project Development

• Nutrition Month theme Healthy Eating
• Tasty and Easy
• fit well with our project

• Collaboration of Health Unit Dietitians and
  regional DEC Dietitians from
• Bracebridge
• Parry Sound
• Huntsville

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Components of Project

• Development of the education tool
• Community Campaign to launch the tool
• Evaluation of the tool and campaign

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Education Tool

• Placemat idea was developed
• Provides a quick visual aid
• Illustrates how to make a complete meal that
  meets Canadas Food Guide to Healthy Eating
  guidelines

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Placemat

• The front side of the tool is designed to feature
  a dinner plate
• Portion sizes are identified using a T shape on
  the dinner plate
• The addition of a bread and butter plate, glass
  of milk and dessert round out the meal

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Recipes

• The back side of the placemat features simple
  recipe ideas and how-tos
• Nutrition Tips on milk products and grain
  products are offered for those wanting additional
  nutrition information
• Canadas Food Guide food groups are identified

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Recipes for a Week

• Menus and recipes were developed for one week
• Mix and match recipes to create different menus
• Shopping list accompanied the tool

• Handy tool when other family members prepare
  dinner- leave a copy for dad or the kids to put
  together a well-balanced meal

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Production of the Tool

• A luncheon was held for regional dietitians
• (10 attended)
• Enthusiastic response to project and all
  volunteered to help with the Campaign

• Draft reviewed at the luncheon
• Printing and fund-raising followed
• 600 copies printed
• 8x11 hard stock was chosen
• Placemats ring-bound

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Community Campaign

• Nutrition Month in March was chosen to launch the
  campaign
• One grocery store in each community was used for
  the event
• Bracebridge, Burks Falls, Gravenhurst,
  Huntsville and Parry Sound

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Dietitians

• 2-3 dietitians covered each store
• 6 hr coverage
• Coverage over lunch and supper in most stores

• Toolkit provided for dietitians
• Disposable cameras included

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Press Coverage

• Nutrition Month Sponsor pages in community
  papers (full page)
• Press release in each community newspaper
• Cable television
• Radio Stations received press release

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In the Store

• Placemat display using food models
• A draw was held for a gift basket and recipe book
• A banner advertised Free Menus for a Week

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Store Display
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Community Contacts

• Ballots were counted at the end of the day
• Most stores had at least 75 visitors

• Total number of contacts-500

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Evaluation

• 1. Participating Dietitians (7)
• 2. Grocery Shoppers (31)
• 3. Diabetes Educators of Northern Diabetes Health
  Network (16)
• 4. Clients attending local NDHN Diabetes Centres
  (15)

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Dietitians Evaluation- (7 Respondents)

• For Your Clientele

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Shoppers Evaluation-(31 Respondents)

• Consumers who used the information Yes- 18 No-13

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Diabetes Educators Evaluation- (16 Respondents)
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DEC Clients Evaluation-(15 Respondents)
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Presenters

• Kim Bendall, RD
• Algonquin Health Services Diabetes Centre
• Mary Ellen Deane, RD
• Muskoka Parry Sound Health Unit
• Sandra Forth, RD, CDE
• Diabetes Education Network of South Muskoka
• Sylvie Jacques, RD, CDE
• Diabetes Education Centre of Parry Sound and Area

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Financial Support

• Northern Diabetes Health Network,
• 1204A Roland St.
• Thunder Bay, ON
• P7B 5M4

• Muskoka-Parry Sound Health Unit,
• 5 Pineridge Gate,
• Gravenhurst, ON
• P1P 1Z3