Planning a Healthy Menu: Toolkit for Enhancing Health Through Nutrition

Healthy Eating in the Community

Overview

Designed for operators of supportive living sites, personal home living, group homes and lodges in Alberta. The toolkit is a how-to guide to help the site plan, prepare, and provide healthy menus and enhance nutrition care to residents. The toolkit helps:

• Support operators in meeting the Government of Alberta Continuing Care Accommodation and Health Service Standards 
• Offers guidance to build a healthy menu, which meets the nutrition requirements of residents following Canada’s food guide.
• Provide tools to enhance the nutrition care of residents.

Who is the toolkit for?

All staff involved in food service, food programs, and nutrition care including site operators, food service staff, nursing staff, dietitians, healthcare professionals, and recreation staff can use this toolkit.

Toolkit

• Table of Contents
• Background Information
• How to Plan a Menu
• Cultural, Religious, and Personal Considerations
• Substitutions and Special Diets
• Dysphagia (Texture Modified Diets)
• Right Diet to Right Resident
• Dementia (Major Neurocognitive Disease)
• Malnutrition
• Hydration

Nutrition Services welcomes any feedback on the Planning a Healthy Menu: A Toolkit for Enhancing Health Through Nutrition. Send feedback to nutritionresources@ahs.ca.

Support Resources

The toolkit also has an appendices that provides information and tools for use in supportive living sites, personal home living, group homes and lodges in Alberta.

• Appendices