New Year, New Pantry | Week 1: Clean out the Pantry

Stoney Health Services Nutrition Team presents the “New Year, New Pantry” to provide the Mini Thni community with practical tips on how to improve the nutrition of their pantries. 

Each week, we will walk you through the steps on how to declutter your pantry, compare nutrition labels, pick meal essentials to make home-cooking easier, create a budget and shopping list.

We hope you learn how to upgrade our own pantries. Please comment with any questions or call the Stoney Health Centre and ask to speak to a dietitian!

Step 1: Clean out your pantry! 

Review the information provided in the pictures. Set your own goals and go through your pantry. Depending on how long ago the best before date is, you may want to discard. Throw away anything past it’s expiration date.

Clean out pantry

Follow our Nutrition Team on their journey as they take stock of their own pantries

 

Take picture or video in front of your pantry and announce 1 SMART goal for your pantry.

Mel
Mel
Mel Bigstoney, Health Promoter Pantry Goal: one of my goals was to add to my spices collection. I only really have the essentials like salt. pepper, chicken/steak spice and a few others. If I were to add to my spices collection I know I would be able to create more tasty foods as well as it being fun to make, leaving me more satisfied after each meal.
Paige
Paige
Paige Thomsen, Registered Dietician Pantry goal: to organize into sections to maximize space and make it easier to find things.
Josh
Josh
Josh Mark, Health Promoter Pantry Goal: To organize and have more chili and soups for quick lunches and dinners
Kiana
Kiana
Kiana Daniels, Health Promoter Pantry Goal: to make it more organized and easier to incorporate health meals.
Japheth
Japheth
Japeth Kaquitts, Health Promoter Pantry Goal: to have a well stocked pantry for well-balanced meals with more vegetables.
Lindsay
Lindsay
Lindsay MacCharles, Registered Dietician Pantry Goal: to have better pantry staples for healthy, quick snacks.

Stoney Nakoda receives national award for pandemic response

Stoney Nakoda receives national award for pandemic response
Nov. 13 — Stoney Nakoda First Nation’s COVID-19 pandemic response received national recognition from the IAEM Canada National Prepared Community award.

Stoney Nakoda Emergency Management director Mike Crawford, Bearspaw First Nation Chief Darcy Dixon, Chiniki First Nation Chief Aaron Young and Wesley First Nation Chief Clifford Poucette were on hand to receive the award on Nov. 13. The award recognized the Nation’s preparedness and the precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The event marked the first time a First Nation community received the award.

The IAEM-CAN Prepared Community Award takes into consideration the following criteria:

  1. The community demonstrated the Emergency Management Principles of mitigation and preparedness that enhanced the public safety of their community.
  2. The community had a dedicated preparedness program in place.
  3. The community demonstrated progressive development of their preparedness program from recent years.

The community’s preparedness program benefitted people, businesses, and the community.