How do I know if my eating habits are healthy and well-balanced?

Following Canada’s food guide will help you have a healthy, well-balanced pattern of eating.

Choose a variety of foods from Canada’s food guide: Have plenty of vegetables and fruits with your meals and snacks, choose whole grain foods, eat a variety of protein foods (including plant-based protein foods), make water your drink of choice.

Canada’s food guide will help you choose the foods to eat that will help nourish you and your baby. This will help you meet your needs for vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.

Healthy eating is more than the foods you eat.  It is also about enjoying your food, eating with others and cooking more often.