Healthy Food Guidelines For First Nations Communities

Our traditional foods have nourished us well since the time of our creation and have been of fundamental importance to our culture. We developed sophisticated techniques to preserve a variety of foods year round to keep our bodies strong and this knowledge has carried us well into our current place. Many challenges now exist for First Nations who wish to access traditional foods. The land and water have experienced changes that now limit the ability to access adequate amounts of our traditional foods. At the same time, our lives have been widely influenced by an abundance of processed, commercially influenced food sources and lack of access to nutritious whole foods. It is our hope that that the Healthy Food Guidelines For First Nations Communities will provide our communities with the information and tools to assist in serving healthy foods at conferences, community gatherings, meetings, programs, special events, school/ daycare meal programs and even fundraising.