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CALL US TODAY (905) 877 - 4330 WWW.HALTONHILLSGYMNASTICS.COM 36 ARMSTRONG AVE, GEORGETOWN, ON L7G 4R9 WINTER SESSION STARTING NOW! 5 Armstrong Ave., Georgetown PHONE 905-873-2989 OR EMAIL FOR FALL BROCHURE danceco@sympatico.ca | www.georgetowndancecompany.com Dancing is like dreaming with your feet • lessons for all ages and genres • recreational and competitive programs • convenient local recital • over 20 years experience Ample Free Parking ve., Georgetown MichaelChong Member of Parliament Wellington - Halton Hills 205-16 Mountainview Rd. S. Georgetown ON L7G 4K1 905-702-2597 www.michaelchong.ca michael.chong@parl.gc.ca 866-878-5556 COMMENT Tips for healthy eating What are your kids taking to school for lunch? Is it healthy? Do they eat 5-10 servings of fruit and vegetables per day? Do they get the right amount of dairy products? How much "fast" food, "junk" food and refined sugar are they eating? Is it time to take a good look in your child's lunch bag to see what's really going on? If now is the time for you to review what your kids are eating for lunch every day, then there is one important step you must take. Talk to your child and find out if they actually eat what you send or does it end up being traded off, shoved in the bottom of a locker, dropped in the garbage or left to rot in a back pack? There is no sense packing tofu and celery sticks if its going to get thrown out in favour of chips and pop purchased at the variety store! How can you get your family to eat more of what their bodies need? Obviously it has to be ap- pealing, otherwise, healthy or no, nobody is going to eat it. Here's a few ideas that may help - who knows, maybe the adults in the family will start packing their lunch everyday too! (Did you know that you can save at least $500 per year, per person by packing a lunch from home instead of buying one? If your whole family participated, you could have a really great holiday with the saved money!) A thermos holds more than just soup! Yes, soup is nice on a cold winter day, but have you thought of….spaghetti and meatballs, macaroni and cheese, Chinese food, meatloaf and mashed potatoes, warm bean salad, omlettes, beans & wieners, stir fry, Spanish rice, chili…and these are just the winter warmers - think of all the cold stuff that can go in there in the summer! When you make dinner at night, make double so you have lots of leftovers and then fill up everyone's ther- mos the next morning. What about a smoothie? Use your food pro- cessor, blender or mixer to start with yogurt as the base, then use your imagination to add any fruit you like-- fresh or frozen. Raspberries and peach- es makes a yummy combo or banana blueberry. Get wild and throw in some kale or spinach. Have a contest to see who can come up with the best tasting drink! Pour it into a drink container and pop it in the lunch box. Now you are well on your way to eating your daily dairy products and you've got at least one or two fruits under your belt! Fill small baskets in the fridge with lunch ap- propriate foods. You can put milk products in one, grains in one, proteins in another and fruits/ veggies in the last. Do this as soon as you return home from grocery shopping. So, you may por- tion up the veggies into small baggies and put in the basket. Fill the milk products one with yogurts, cheese bites and milks. The protein bas- ket can hold baggies of chick peas, containers of hummus, rolled up low fat lunch meats. Then let everyone put their own lunches together as long as they understand they have to have at least one item from each basket and two from the fruit/veg- gie basket. Try making some wraps. Soft flour tortillas come in many different flavours and colours- wrap one up with Caesar salad and chicken breast, cream cheese and grated carrots, hummus and roasted red pepper. There are a million com- binations such as put some alfalfa sprouts or let- tuce in there too, you can't go wrong! Have fun and keep cooking! Green Pea Guacamole INGREDIENTS • 1/3 medium red onion, finely chopped • 4 Tbs olive oil • juice of 1 lime (about 4 Tbs) • ½ cup chopped cilantro • 1 small jalapeno pepper, seeded (optional) • 1 (16-ounce) bag frozen green peas*, thawed • 2 ripe avocadoes • 1 tbsp mayonnaise • ½ tsp ground cumin • 1 tsp sea salt • 1 small plum tomato, diced (optional) METHOD 1. Chop onion in food processor until finely chopped. Place onion in a medium bowl and set aside. 2. Combine oil, lime juice and cilantro in food processor until roughly pureed. Add jalapeno, peas, avocado, mayonnaise, cumin, salt and blend until almost smooth (should be some chunks left). 3. Stir in red onion and diced tomato if using. 4. Add additional salt and pepper to taste. Garnish with a bit of chopped red onion. Serve with tortilla chips or toasted pita. *You don't need to defrost or cook the frozen peas before pureeing them, but it is recommended to let the dip sit at room temperature for about a half hour before serving. By Lori Gysel & Gerry Kentner whatscooking@theifp.ca What's Cookin'