Welcome to 4 for Lunch: A Healthy Lunch Challenge! This program helps teachers to teach nutrition and parents (and their children) to pack nutritious lunches.

4 for Lunch is a curriculum-matched program for teachers and parents of grade 2 students. Every year, York Region Community and Health Services, Nutrition Services has a week-long Healthy Lunch Challenge to encourage students and parents to make healthy lunches.

Curriculum-matched activities included here will help you prepare your students for 4 for Lunch: A Health Lunch Challenge!

Have a look at some of our winning classes.

This year the 4 for Lunch challenge will take place November 26th to 30th. Registration information was sent in early September (via email) to all York Region Public and Catholic schools. Registration closed October 12, 2012.

These materials will provide you with everything you need to have in order to participate in the healthy lunch challenge. 

The curriculum-matched lessons that are included with this program will help to prepare your students for the challenge.  The overall goal of this promotion is to encourage families to pack nutritious lunches.

This information will help parents work with their children to prepare nutritious school lunches.

The 4 for Lunch Program was evaluated to learn if participating in the program would increase students' knowledge and nutrition-related behaviour.

 

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