Nutritional Kids Camp – Eat.Go.Grow!
Eat.Go.Grow! Kids Camp
The following article appeared in the JUNE 2015 print edition © Common Ground magazine
Claudia Lemay’s vison with the help of volunteers make Eat.Go.Grow! a Success
Article by Vesanto Melina
This July in Surrey, BC, with funding from New Horizons, a Kinsmen project will launch that captures a similar, complementary energy. EatGoGrow! (www.eatgogrow.com) is a visionary blend of elders, youngsters, fitness and fun in the kitchen. (Location: near Surrey Memorial Hospital.) Sixty children (15 per week) will exercise in the morning in the company of elders, half of whom are in wheelchairs.
Claudia Lemay is the project dietitian and the food prepared will be a blend of creativity and recipes. Children will learn that, in cooking pasta, a recipe helps in knowing how much water to put in the pot to boil and how long to cook the pasta. But when it comes to making the pasta sauce, they might use a recipe or, alternatively, be innovative. In day-to-day life, we often must create meals based on what we have on-hand. Being restricted to a particular recipe can be limiting, requiring a special trip to the grocery store.
During the camp, the children will also learn basic nutrition information with the help of an elf called Stargold the Food Fairy.
Eat.Go.Grow! Kids Camp
Eat.Go.Grow! Kids Camp
Vesanto Melina is a BC dietitian and author. Claudia Lemay is a dietitian at Kinsmen Lodge in Surrey; she has fun teaching nutrition and cooking to children and has a passion for working with elders.
