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Following Canada's Food Guide for Children: Care Instructions

You can use Canada's Food Guide to know how much vegetables and fruits, whole grain foods, and protein foods to offer your child every day.

At meals, fill half the plate with vegetables and fruits. Try to include a good variety of colours, textures, and shapes.

Try serving apples, carrots, berries, cabbage, sweet potato, pears, peppers, leafy greens, or tomatoes. Vegetables and fruits can be fresh, frozen, canned, or dried.

Fill one-fourth of the plate with whole grain foods. Try quinoa, whole grain pasta, whole grain bread, oatmeal, or brown rice.

Fill one-fourth of the plate with protein foods. Try foods like eggs, beans, fish, poultry, lean meat, peanut butter, or tofu.

Protein foods also include low-fat dairy products like milk, yogurt, and cheese or fortified soy beverages.

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