Ideas from our Chefs and Dietitians

Discovering and choosing healthy food and lifestyle choices can help keep your body and mind healthy, fuel your success, and improve your overall well-being.

Empowering healthy Canadians, a priority objective of our Be Well. Do Well.^TM sustainability plan, reinforces our commitment to not only providing tasty healthy options but also fostering a culture of health and wellness on campus.

Our health and wellness strategies in the dining space includes a healthy menu strategy, as well as nutrition and other wellness initiatives that promote and support healthy lifestyles.

Our on-campus programming focuses on these 4 E’s:

1. Enable a food environment that encourages health and wellbeing by offering a variety of healthy choices every day.
2. Educate, inform, and empower the student community by providing evidence-based nutrition and wellness information.
3. Encourage a heightened level of interest and excitement about healthy and local choices.
4. Engage a community that actively participates in and is connected to a culture of health and wellness.

Special dietary choices and other special food qualities are clearly identified through the following colourful icons:

• VEGETARIAN Identifies foods that fit a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet, which excludes all meat, fish, and poultry, but includes eggs, milk and many dairy products, and honey.
  
  
  
• VEGAN Identifies foods that are made from plant-based foods only, excluding eggs, milk, dairy, honey, and any other animal-derived ingredients.
  Note: The vegan logo is not listed for deep fried items unless a dedicated vegan deep fryer is used.
  
  
  
• NO DAIRY* Identifies menu items that are made without milk ingredients to assist those avoiding dairy in their diet.
  Note: Due to the nature of our kitchens, our accounts can’t guarantee cross-contamination with milk allergens doesn’t occur.
  
  
  
• NO GLUTEN* Identifies menu items that are made without gluten ingredients to assist those avoiding gluten in their diet.
  Note: Due to the nature of our kitchens, our accounts can’t guarantee cross-contamination with wheat allergens and other gluten courses doesn’t occur.
  
  
  
• HALAL This logo is used to identify single ingredients or recipes that contain Halal certified proteins (only), Halal permitted foods and exclude all Haram ingredients.