What is Food Literacy?

Question 1

SEM factors for child nutritional status

Answer 1

• Child characteristics and child risk factors
• Parenting styles and family characteristics
• Community, demographic and societal characteristics

Question 2

How many children are meeting reccomendations set out by CFG?

Answer 2

Most Canadian children are not meeting CFG
* 54% 2-3 year olds meet reccomendations (most responsibilty is in caregivers hands)
* 31% 4-8 years meet reccomendations (gets worse with age)

Question 3

How do parents shape childrens eating habits

Answer 3

By behaviours modeled by them, attitudes, preferences, and mealtimes structures (foods available, amount and frequency)
* Improve → influence → impact

Question 4

What is food literacy

Answer 4

A collection of inter-related knowledge, skills and behaviours required to plan, manage, select, prepare and eat foods to meet needs and determine food intake. Food Literacy is the scaffolding that empowers individuals, households, communities, and nations to protect diet quality through change, and support dietary resilience over time.

Question 5

What are the factors of food literacy?

Answer 5

• planning and management
• selection
• preparation
• eating

Question 6

Describe the planning and management of meals in influencing childrens food literacy

Answer 6

• Helps to have better quality diets
• More meals prepared at home

Question 7

Describe selection of food in influencing childrens food literacy

Answer 7

• Home food environment influences children’s diet
• Parents can have different reasons for buying processed foods (children 8-12 y)

Question 8

Preparation of foods in influencing childrens food literacy

Answer 8

• Healthy diets are linked with having enough cooking skills
• Adults have reported barriers in cooking from scratch
• Often default to processed so need to address the barriers

Question 9

Eating in influencing childrens food literacy

Answer 9

• Family mealtimes associated with healthier diets in children
• Parents like family mealtimes because of “bonding” time (children 8-10 y)
• internal cues are important to foser

Question 10

Why are learning food skills important?

Answer 10

Building a basic level of food skills (such as the ability to assemble a simple meal or snack using nutritious foods) can contribute to improved food choices and eating behaviours at any age, but particularly among children and adolescents.
* Their cooking skills can evolve and become more time efficient.

Question 11

Considerations: Food skills and food literacy

Answer 11

• important life skills
• Food literacy includes food skills and the broader environmental context
• Cultural food practices should be celebrated.
• Food skills should be considered within the social, cultural, and historical context of Indigenous Peoples
• Food skills can be taught, learned, and shared in a variety of settings.
• Food skills may help decrease household food waste.

Question 12

The importance of eating togethe

Answer 12

• reinforce positive eating habits through modelling
• encourage involvemenr in food literacy skills
• opportunity to learn about food
• most likely eating something healthier