How Do You Serve Healthy Food at Meetings?

A popular local caterer told us recently that they don’t provide heart smart muffins for meetings and events because there simply isn’t enough call for them. They can provide muffins with veggies like zucchini and carrots, but these muffins would also likely contain too much oil for them to be considered a truly healthy option. We have offered to provide some healthy recipe options.

It came as a surprise that in a city the size of Vancouver with a population of over 2.2 million people there wouldn’t be more demand to serve healthy food at meetings and events.

It’s hard for anyone to pick up a magazine or newspaper these days that doesn’t carry an article or two on the impact of diet (and exercise) on our health. As the obesity epidemic grows, we learn every day how overweight will impact our long-term health. It seems to me that there are a lot of people talking about what they are doing to improve their diets (i.e. increasing fruit and vegetable intake and lowering the fat, salt and sugar content of their food while adding more physical activity to their routines) in order to improve their overall health and to avoid the risk of chronic disease. People are thinking more and more about the long-term consequences of their daily choices.

Maybe these changes just haven’t reached the office buildings yet. If that’s the case, we’d like to help by recommending ActNow BC’s excellent resource “Eat Smart Meet Smart” to help plan healthier meetings, events and conferences. And to provide some healthy recipe options.

What do you serve at your events? We’d be interested to hear from you info@bchealthyliving.ca

Brenda Bedford
Communications Assistant
February 25, 2010