When it comes to feeding  your toddler – remember this – it's the parent’s job to provide healthy food choices and it is the child’s job to decide whether or not to eat the food.

Resources:

• Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating

Other Recommended Resources:

• The ABC’s of Feeding Preschoolers – Sudbury and District Health Unit 2002
• How to Feed Your Growing Child 1-5 years old – Best Start 2004
• Ellyn Satter books: Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense; and How to Get Your Kid to Eat But Not Too Much

Dial-A-Dietitian is operated by NutritionLink Services Society. Full funding for this program is provided by the B.C. Ministry of Health. Dial-A-Dietitian is a free nutrition information line for British Columbians. Dial-A-Dietitian specializes in easy-to-use nutrition information for self-care, based on current scientific sources. Our registered dietitians can provide brief nutrition consultation by phone. If you need more in-depth counselling, they will guide you to hospital outpatient dietitians, community nutritionists or other nutrition services in your community. This service does not replace the medical counsel of your doctor.

Translation services are available in 130 languages from Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm daily.  1-800-667-3438 or www.dialadietitian.org