Introducing Our "Eat Well" Programme

Welcome readers to our new blog!

 

We decided to create this blog as a space for us to promote to you our fellow readers our Healthy For Life Campaign at RGU, providing balanced, healthy and fresh food to staff and students all over campus. Today we will be discussing a brand new and exciting project "Eat Well" as part of this campaign we have coming up for all of you students coming to RGU both new and returning.

Eat Well is a brand new eating programme for 2015, allowing us to make it easy of our customers to find menu selections with wholesome ingredient's and good nutrition without skipping on great taste. Through this programme we are trying to communicate across campus more nutritionally-balanced food choices in aiding to a healthy lifestyle. As you can see in the image below we are passionate about providing at least one of your five a day through Eat Well, using whole grains, baking our food rather than frying, using naturally sweet food thus using no added sugar and providing various vegetarian options. These leaves will be placed next to our various foods from the Eat Well range so you can better find nutritious healthy options.

Our final little sneak peek for you all of what is to come on campus is a little more detail into how our talented chefs create such healthy dishes but still retaining great taste. Well as stated previously rather than frying we will be using other means to cook our food to avoid unwanted calories, oils etc. We will also be excluding highly saturated fats from our recipes and instead using 1% milk and Flora buttery as alternatives when required. Each dish will be accompanied with at least one portion of vegetables or within the dish itself and finally one of the most health conscious steps we are taking is to cut back on salt, only adding a maximum of 0.3g. 

It seems to be a stereotype that students only wish to make unhealthy choices often what they feel is the quickest and cheapest option. However in today's society we are all becoming more health conscious and it is apparent everywhere, particularly social media that in fact students do care greatly about their health to help them study, sleep and live happy long lives. We have researched and listened, therefore healthy for life and eat well are born. We are very passionate about food, and providing everyone at RGU nutritious, healthy and balanced meals on the go, meaning you don't have to sacrifice on taste or convenience for your health. Be sure to watch this space for more news very soon on Healthy For Life!