VGH and Sodexo are excited to introduce fresh, nutritious and affordable meal choices featuring mouth-watering foods prepared from scratch by our chefs using local ingredients. Choose from signature entrees concocted by Sodexo’s own executive chef, or custom-made sandwiches that are rich in all the essential nutrients, including lean proteins, carbs, vitamins, minerals and fibers. Designed to bring our guests meals and snacks that help them live a healthy and active lifestyle, the new menu is compliant with Vancouver Coastal Health’s Healthy Eating Guidelines for Retail Food Services. Available at the Sassafras Cafeteria in November, come try our brand new tasty menu!

What are the VCH Healthy Eating Guidelines?

VCH is committed to supporting the health and well-being of its staff, physicians, patients and visitors. Food is an intimate and integral part of people’s well-being and the way VCH and our partners provide food to retail food service customers can effectively promote health and wellness. Through the implementation of Healthy Eating Guidelines for Retail Food Services, healthy food choices will be made available and promoted so that they are the easy choice. VCH and Sodexo are in close collaboration to bring retail food services that will become a model for best practice in the marketplace.

Why is healthy eating important?

Healthy eating is a pattern of eating that contributes to best possible health through positive relationships with food and balanced food choices that meet the body’s needs for nutrients and energy. Healthy eating promotes and supports social, physical, and mental well-being for all people and contributes to the overall health of individuals, families and communities. Healthy eating may help minimize the risk and occurrence of diseases and the management such.