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Food & Nutrition

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A Focus on Nutrition

We’ve all heard the saying: “You are what you eat”!

The Board, management, and staff of Walden Day Care Centre believe that this is particularly true for children.

But in this age of fast food, highly processed ingredients, and many unfamiliar and unhealthy additives, we recognize it is becoming more of a challenge for families to eat in a healthful way.

Our Food & Nutrition Philosophy

At Walden Day Care Centre we are fully committed to providing your child/children with a ‘back to basics’ menu of delicious, homemade, nutritious foods.

White flour, white sugar, and a microwave are just some the things you WON’T find in our kitchen.

However, we choose to dwell more on what you WILL find in it … tasty recipes that include fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats, and organic herbal teas, to name a few!

What We Offer

As in our homes, kitchens play a vital role in every day life. We are sincerely committed to ensuring our children not only ‘eat’ in a healthful way but also ‘learn’ the benefits of good food. 

Our kitchen has been designed with a separate area to allow for small groups of children to help, often in preparing an afternoon snack or even just enjoying their favourite ‘apple parties’ there. 

In short, our nutrition program is designed to provide your children with the nutrient-rich foods necessary to promote the optimum in child growth and development!

Sample Menus

The current week’s menu is posted in your child’s playroom, check it out! 

Click the headings below to view sample menus from WDCC:

Testimonials

"Congratulations on Walden Day Care’s nutrition initiative and the intent to help inform and equip our young children to lead healthy lives from early on. A supportive food environment has been identified as a key direction within the Ontario Government’s Healthy Kids Strategy: No Time to Wait. Food safety goes hand in hand with a successful nutrition program and Public Health Sudbury & Districts health inspectors are available to work with you to ensure important safety measures are in place. Thank you for your work in increasing our children’s understanding and skills related to healthy eating."
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Dr. Penny Sutcliffe Retired Medical Officer of Health & Chief Executive Officer, Public Health Sudbury & Districts
“My husband and I would like to applaud the Walden Day Care for initiating their “Nutritional Menu”. This approach of fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains, and healthy fats is an excellent idea. Our lives are so busy with everyday activities that is easy to fall victim to the “fast food” approach. We feel that it is very important as parents to inform our children to make good choices with healthy foods and WDCC has made this approach easier and fun by involving them in the process.”
Jennifer and Terry Giroux
Parents
“I am very grateful for the homemade meals and cooking implemented at Walden Day Care. It is so sweet to see your children mix their own pancakes and pick their own fruits for their morning smoothie. I walk in every morning reminded of a smell from Grandma's place thanks to the wonderful cooks. Thank you to the educators and management for helping our family with the transition of being apart, to being like “home away from home."
Michelle Jones
Mom
“I am very pleased to hear of a local daycare that is making such enormous efforts to feed children healthy meals and snacks. I often wonder if children in daycares ate healthy nutritious meals rather than convenient foods, if the spread of illnesses within daycares would decrease … interesting? You are doing a wonderful service for these children.”
Dr. Sylvia Marasco Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine