Earlier this year I got to know the Nutrition Facts Table (the “Nft”) and last weekend I tested my knowledge at the Nutrition Education Facts booth at the Vancouver Home + Design Show.
Along with my nephew, I was quizzed on ten facts about the Nft, where we also learned how to read the table (and how to do a little math on the fly). For each correct answer, we were given a chip that we took over to the Nutrition Facto board to earn some prizes.
“It’s like Plinko,” I told my nephew, who shrugged. “The Price is Right? Plinko? No?” he remained unfazed by my game show trivia and took to the board to enter to win.
Coming away with a tote bag, t-shirt, and the chance to win a grocery gift card (I entered my nephew under his mother’s name), it was a fun way to start our day at the Home and Design Show.
Getting to Know the Nutrition Facts Table
There are three simple Nft steps that you can add to your grocery shopping mission that will help you make better health choices.
- Serving Size. It’s at the very top of the table, you can’t miss it. By checking a product’s serving size, you can:
Understand how much of a nutrient you are eating
Compare calories and nutrients between 2 similar packaged food products
Compare it to the amount you actually eat
- Daily Value. The % DV is found on the right-hand side of a nutrition facts table. It is a guide to help you make informed food choices. It shows you if the serving size has a little or a lot of a nutrient:
5% DV or less is a little
15% DV or more is a lot
- Ingredients. Reading the ingredient list is both important and useful. It can help you:
Check if a food product has a certain ingredient.
Avoid ingredients in case of a food allergy or intolerance.
The NFt, found on most packaged food products in Canada, is key to making an informed choice for you and your family in a few easy steps. The campaign encourages Canadians to start with the Serving Size and then use the % DV to choose the nutrients you want a lot or a little of. By learning how to find out if a product has more of the ingredients you want, and less of those you want to avoid, you can make sure only the very best ends up in your cart, pantry, and body.
Nutrition Education Facts Grocery Giveaway
I have a $100 grocery gift card to give away to one lucky Miss604 reader so they can enjoy their next grocery shopping trip compliments of the Nft! Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment on this post (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 10:00am on Saturday, November 12, 2016. Participating retailers, where the gift card will be valid, are Walmart, Loblaws (LCL), Sobey’s, Federated Co-op, Metro, Costco Wholesale and Overwaitea Food Group.
For more information — and more chances to win great prizes — visit Focus on the Facts online. You can also follow Healthy Canadians on Twitter, the #FocusontheFacts tag, and Healthy Canadians on Facebook.
Update The winner is Holly MacRitchie!
It’s no secret that the Museum of Anthropology (“MOA”) at UBC is my favourite museum that I definitely would call a must visit location for any visitor, and local. They now have a new visually spectacular and immersive exhibition on global textiles starting this month called Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures, which will be on display November 17, 2016 to April 9, 2017.
Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures
From birth to death, humans are wrapped in cloth worn for survival, but more importantly, wear clothing as an external expression of their spiritual belief system, social status and political identity. This stunning exhibition will explore clothing’s inherent evidence of human ingenuity, creativity and skill, drawing from MOA’s textile collection — the largest collection in Western Canada — to display a global range of materials, production techniques and adornments across different cultures and time frames.
adire eleko. Cloth for Yoruba women to wear as head covering, wrapped skirt and blouse or tailored dress.
Curated by Dr. Jennifer Kramer (MOA Curator, Pacific Northwest), Layers of Influence will entrance MOA visitors with large swaths of intricate textiles often worn to enhance the wearer’s prestige, power and spiritual connection, including Japanese kimonos, Indian saris, Indonesian sarongs, West African adinkra, adire and kente cloth, South Pacific barkcloth, Chinese Qing dynasty robes, Indigenous Northwest coast blankets, Maori feather cloaks and more.
A sumptuous feast for the eyes, the exhibition is an aesthetic and affective examination of humanity’s multifaceted and complex history with cloth and its ability to amplify the social, political and spiritual influence of the wearer as a functional expression of self-identity.
Visit
The MOA galleries and shop (at 6393 NW Marine Drive at UBC) are open daily from 10:00am to 5:00pm and until 9:00pm on Thursdays (closed Mondays October 15 to May 15).
Win Museum of Anthropology Passes
If you would like to visit the Layers of Influence exhibit I have a pair of passes to give away for admission to the Museum of Anthropology. Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment on this post (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
Follow the Museum of Anthropology on Twitter and Facebook for more information about this exhibit and other happenings at the museum. Prize passes valid until April 9, 2017. I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 5:00pm on Thursday, November 10, 2016.
Update The winner is Melanie!
This weekend you can check out markets, museum exhibitions, film festivals, theatrical productions and more. I’ll be at the Variety Week Street Festival at Central City in Surrey on Friday, and here are a few more things to do in Vancouver this weekend:
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend
Events that run for longer than three days in a row are highlighted in green.
Friday, November 4, 2016
Variety Week Street Festival
Coquitlam Craft Beer Festival
Opening Reception: Shed yr skin, New works from Nomi Chi
Newton Community Walk
Clarinet Masterclass with Charles Neidich
Designers! Drinks! Discussion! at MOV
Eastside Flea November Markets
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Standing Room Only Theatre Presents: 12 Angry Jurors
Ballet BC Program 1
Heart of the City Festival
Vancouver Jewish Film Festival
Douglas College Theatre Presents: Love and Information
TWU Presents: Smash
Presentation House Theatre: Ages of the Moon
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Diwali Downtown Surrey
Cooking Demo & Dinner: Fall Flare
PechaKucha 20×20 New Westminster
Finding Your Niche in the Age of Digital Imaging
Vancouver Train Expo
TEDxSFU
Blue Light Sessions Presents Echo Nebraska
Survivors Totem Pole Raising
Vancouver Health Show
Starlight Children’s Foundation Presents Sparkle!
9th Annual Furry Tail Endings Gala benefitting LAPS
Broken Pencil’s Canzine West 2016
A Night of Miracles for BC Children’s Hospital
Photography Exhibit at the West End Community Centre
Nat Bailey Winter Farmers Market
Music on Main: Modulus Festival
Miss Shakespeare at the Firehall Arts Centre
Eastside Flea November Markets
Ballet BC Program 1
Heart of the City Festival
Vancouver Jewish Film Festival
Presentation House Theatre: Ages of the Moon
TWU Presents: Smash
Douglas College Theatre Presents: Love and Information
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Sunday, November 6, 2016
VSO at the Movies: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Vancouver Art Guild Winter Salon
Radiance: Shakti Society’s 4th Annual Wellness Day
Cannery Farmers’ Market
Digging in Deep: Youth Photovoice Project
Winter Salon Art show and sale
Vancouver Train Expo
Vancouver Recital Society: Anna Fedorova
An Evening With Il Divo
Rank & Vile f. Kenny Robinson & Darren Frost XXX Comedy Show
An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Matt Dillahunty
Hastings Park Farmers Market
Miss Shakespeare at the Firehall Arts Centre
Music on Main: Modulus Festival
Eastside Flea November Markets
Heart of the City Festival
Vancouver Jewish Film Festival
Presentation House Theatre: Ages of the Moon
Douglas College Theatre Presents: Love and Information
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
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The Halloween candy has been divided and the Christmas decorations are ready to be dusted off, but before we leap into a new holiday season, Canadians have a very important day to honour first. Remembrance Day, November 11th, is a day to remember the courage, service and sacrifice of thousands of men and women, and to honour them by never forgetting them.
Your city will most likely have a service or ceremony on November 11th, around its local cenotaph, and to make things easier I have rounded up a list of events (that have been publicized, as of the date of publishing of this post) that you can attend:
Remembrance Day Ceremonies Around Metro Vancouver
Event: Vancouver Ceremony at Victory Square
Where: Victory Square Cenotaph at W Hastings St and Cambie St
When: Parade at 9:45am. Ceremony at 10:30am
Details At 11:00am the Last Post will be sounded. There will be Two Minutes of Silence, during which a 21-gun salute by the 15th Field Artillery Regiment will be heard from Portside Park. Lament and Rouse will follow. The RCAF will conduct a fly-past moments later, weather permitting. The enduring In Flanders Fields will then be sung by the Bach Youth Choir and Sarabande and wreaths will be placed at the Cenotaph. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
There’s a bit of a holiday shuffle going on around Vancouver, with the Vancouver Christmas Market moving to Jack Poole Plaza and a new Christmas Light Maze in False Creek. Now the iconic 50 ft. Christmas Tree will find a home at Robson Square this season, with a free lighting ceremony and family event at the beginning of December.
Vancouver Christmas Tree at Robson Square
What: Vancouver Christmas Tree Lighting
Where: Robson Square, Downtown Vancouver (800 block Robson St)
When: Friday, December 2, 2016 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Back for its 10th year, the Vancouver Christmas Tree Lighting was founded by Amacon as a way to give back to the Vancouver community. Join the festivities at Robson Square for this free public event and enjoy a holiday concert, photos with Santa, holiday crafts, free hot chocolate and cookies, the lighting of the 50 ft. Christmas tree and more!
Complimentary hot chocolate and cookies supplied by event partners Loden Hotel, Tableau Bar Bistro and Homer St. Cafe and Bar. Food trucks on site for the lighting event include Mom’s Grilled Cheese, Reel Mac and Cheese, and Big Dogs Burger Bus.
Buy-A-Bulb
Bulbs can be purchased 5 for $5, 15 for $10 or any other amount desired and all proceeds go directly to the Vancouver International Children’s Festival. Each bulb purchased not only helps light the tree, but helps send a deserving child to next year’s Vancouver International Children’s Festival.
For more information about the Vancouver Christmas Tree at Robson Square and the lighting event on December 2nd, follow along on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

