Healthy Meetings

 

Establish a model of healthy living by the meetings you host.  Offer healthy options of food and beverage.  If meetings get lengthy, provide a quick physical activity stretch break. 

Breakfast foods

·          Fresh fruit in bite-sized pieces or a bowl of fresh fruit

·          Mini muffins or cut large ones in half

·          Flavored yogurt-- low-fat or fat-free

·          Fruit bread--skip the butter or margarine

·          Bagels, small served with low-fat cream cheese, or fruit spread

·          Granola bars

·          Hard boiled eggs

·          Pre-packaged cinnamon applesauce

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Lunches and Dinners

·          Select a lower fat entrée (12-15 g fat or less)

·          Offer a low-fat vegetarian entrée

·          Avoid fried foods or cream sauces

·          Include fresh fruit

·          Have the desserts cut into half size pieces

·          Include at least one vegetable--cooked or fresh

·          Include whole grain bread--skip butter and margarine

·          Serve salads with dressing on the side-offer one low-fat dressing

·          Box lunch sandwich: meat, cheese, and vegetables on whole grain bread.  Offer meal with fresh fruit, baby carrots or coleslaw, and flavored water or skim milk

 

 
 

Beverages

·          Skim, 1% or flavored milk

·          Coffee (regular or flavored)

·          100% fruit juice with calcium

·          Bottled water, flavored,        sparkling

                or regular

·          Tea, served hot or cold

·          Skim or 1% milk as creamer

 
 

Snacks

·          Raw vegetables--cut up and served with a low-fat dressing for a dip

·          Fresh fruit--cut up and offered with low-fat strawberry yogurt

·          Pita wedges with flavored hummus or low-fat peanut butter

·          Pretzels—regular or soft, served with sweet mustard dip

·          Air popped popcorn sprinkled with cheese powder

·          Baked tortilla chips offered with salsa dip

·          Chocolate or confetti angel food cake 

·          Reduced fat whole wheat crackers

·          Unfrosted cake cut in 2” squares

·          Gingersnaps with pumpkin dip

·          2” oatmeal raisin cookies

·          Whole grain crackers

·          Flavored rice cakes

·          Animal crackers

·          Baked chips

·          Trail mix

 
 

Serve fruits and vegetables

·          Apple or banana slices with peanut butter dip

·          Washed grapes cut into small bunches of 6-8

·          Pineapple and melon chunks

·          Orange and kiwi wedges--unpeeled

·          Vegetable coins-- sliced cucumber, carrot, zucchini

·          Jicama sticks, carrots, fresh pea pods and green beans  

·          Seasonal fruits such as Tangerines or Clementines

·          Dried apricots, prunes, raisins, bananas, apples, melons, pineapples, papayas, cantaloupes, watermelons, pears, peaches, and strawberries