Bucktooth Rabbit - How Being Teased Hurts

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We are very excited to introduce a new author and her first children's storybook. Sandra Mason was born and raised a few miles outside New Glasgow, Nova Scotia as the youngest of sixteen children. Her interest in art began at a very young age with sketching, mostly animals. At the age of sixteen she took oil painting lessons from a local artist named Danny Munro. In her thirties she tried watercolor instructed by another local artist, Lyn Sue Wice. Sandra fell in love with watercolor and over the years developed her own style of painting with this medium. At the age of forty two she decided to enroll at The Nova Scotia Community College to study Digital Animation, graduating in 2006. The next three years Sandra worked passionately to create Bucktooth Rabbit and his many friends. This is the first publication in a series of stories about Bucktooth dealing with social issues important to children and their families.

To order your copy of Bucktooth Rabbit - How Being Teased Hurts, starting the week of December 14, 2009 click on this blog entry title above to go to the Shopping Cart for EYECAN CREATIONS Publications.

Watch for the arrival of Sandra's second book in the coming new year:

Bucktooth Rabbit - Small But Mighty

We hope that after you have read Sandra's books that you will return here to share a comment with us and our readers.

Supporting a Senior

Are you supporting a senior family member or friend? Comment and share with readers what you do to help them with planning and eating healthy meals.

Perhaps you help them with grocery shopping to make sure they have a good choice of healthy foods to prepare and eat.

You can't be there at mealtime and you often wonder if they are eating well or at all.

When it is time to shop you find that much of the food you bought last week is still there.

Maybe they are forgetting to prepare meals or can't think of what to prepare.

An Eater's Choice Daily Meal Planner would help them to sit down each day to plan meals. It helps to focus by writing the plan down and then they are more apt to remember. When meal time comes around they already have a plan to follow.

The meal planner can also be a great help in planning how many servings of food groups are needed when shopping for the week. A list of foods might encourage a wider variety of choice and a weekly planner can become a grocery list. Both can be found at http://www.theeatinggame.ca/resources/default.asp. Give it a try! Click on the title above to order today!

A Family Planning Meals Together

I was very pleased this week to get some feedback from a family who has been planning meals together for this past month using Eater's Choice Daily Meal Planners. Here is what mom has to say,

"I purchased three planners so my two younger girls and I could have some fun while learning to eat well. It has taught us that we don't actually eat enough! It's a fun way to start the day before they're off to school and to plan what to have for school lunch."

They are enjoying planning healthy meals and have the opportunity to learn as well! I am hoping we will hear from other families using Eater's Choice Daily Meal Planners, telling us about their experiences.

Overweight Kids

What do you do to help your overweight child to be in control of healthier eating habits. Just a few suggestions:

1) consult your doctor for support

2) be POSITIVE as you support you child in a challenging venture

3) engage in family planning meals together; parents can set an example and everyone can be involved in meal planning; ownership is important

4) try other ways to help your child maintain positive self esteem

5) maybe include your child's friend who may be overweight who might also be interested in a healthy plan

Now you need a plan. Have a look at Eater's Choice Daily Meal Planners for everyone in your family. Then make it a routine family activity to plan healthy meals together. Everyone is supportive and it goes without saying that everyone can win!
Good luck, let us know how it works out for your family.

Are you in Control?

The main purpose for eating is to maintain good health and have the energy we need to have an active lifestyle. That sounds so simple but it is far from simple for many people. So many factors affect how well we eat; knowledge, finances and time are probably key factors in determining how healthy our diet will be. Perhaps we should include one's ability and desire to prepare food too!

Are you in control of your eating?
Those of us who enjoy eating have to be in control!
Those of us who eat because we are hungry have to be in control!
Those of us who don't eat enough have to be in control!
Those of us who eat too much have to be in control!

There is a National Food Guide to help us make wise choices when planning meals and buying food. We have Canada's Food Guide and our American neighbours have a very similar Food Guide Pyramid.

It definately takes time to plan meals, purchase groceries and prepare meals! The Eater's Choice Daily Meal Planners help you with this time factor and ensure that you have a plan that encourages healthy eating. It is based on Canada's Food Guide, so offers in 8 different packages based on age, a planner that guides you to be in control and plan healthy meals.

By going to http://www.theeatinggame.ca/resources/default.asp you can access:
1) a suggested food list, to help you make a wider variety of choices
2) a weekly planning sheet, would could become your grocery list

By using the Eater's Choice Daily Meal Planners you will be better able to
1) control calorie consumption, to ensure more or less as needed
2) control food costs to what you plan as necessary for a healthy diet
3) control food wastage by buying only what you need and following the plan!

The package includes a copy of Canada's Food Guide which explains healthy food choices and serving sizes; the knowledge we need to have a good plan! This is a plan that will help us be in control of a healthy diet; to allow us to gain, maintain or lose weight as desired.

Planners are available for 8 age groups from age 4 to 51+ . They do require that one have skills to read and write or have assistance to do so. For those who can not read and write the same goals can be attained using The Eating Game

Dad Bought Meal Planners for Everyone

September 20th was my last day at The Pictou Weekend Market and it was a very good day! I always meet very interesting people at the market and this day was no exception. Today I was to meet a dad with 2 adult sons at home, both with disabilities and both with eating issues. One sometimes didn't eat enough, at least not a variety of healthy foods and the other son ate too much, too frequently between meals.

This dad wanted to know about The Eating Game and The Eater's Choice Daily Meal Planners. The Eating Game caught his eye because one son is autistic, but perhaps too old for this. The Eater's Choice Daily Meal Planners would be a good thing for both boys, one would maybe choose a wider variety of foods and the second would perhaps be able to restrict eating to the identified 6 meals.

Before he left my booth, he had also purchased a planner for himself and his wife. He thought it would be a good family activity to plan healthy meals together. Of course I agreed wholeheartedly that this sounded like a great idea!

Now we have 8 different Eater's Choice Meal Planners for ages 4 to 51+, so the resources are available for any family to decide to make meal planning a whole family activity. Work out a way to do this that suits your family and empower everyone with the tools to plan healthy meals every day!

Come back to this site and let us all know how you do this in your family and how it works out! Periodically we will have a draw from those who send in a comment with an email address. The prize will be a choice of 4 meal planners that you might give as a gift to a family you care about. Would make a nice gift for this December!

Don't forget to go to http://www.theeatinggame.ca/resources/default.asp to get a list of foods a weekly planning sheet you can print for your own use!

A Healthy Fundraising Idea!

Planning on doing some serious fundraising? Think about purchasing Eater's Choice Daily Meal Planners at a wholesale price.

Your organization will be raising funds and supporting healthy meal planning which is a concern today for everyone, a large target market for sure:
children
teens
adults
seniors needing support
adults in supported living programs
families planning meals together
those supporting an overweight child
those supporting an overweight teen
an adult concerned with weight control
Click on the title above to contact us at http://www.theeatinggame.ca/contact.htm for more information.