“Everything we have talked about over the past few weeks has opened my eyes to what kind of things we could offer the children, and how to encourage them to do healthy eating when we are in the centre by offering them healthy choices and talking about those healthy choices and why we have made the choice to serve this meal, or serve this food item, because it offers nourishment to our bodies, rather than just filling our bellies.”

“From us doing this and eating our fruits and vegetables during snack time, or different things like that, and drinking lots of water throughout the day we find the kids … we are role modelling it throughout the day so they are doing it now and we hear the kids telling the parents.”

“For me, myself, I have learned to actually take time, and sit down and enjoy the meal with the kids and take time to talk to them. I am quite a busy person and now I have changed that way of thinking…personally, I am actually starting to eat healthier. When you are busy and you are working a twelve hour day, you just go home and you grab whatever because you are tired, but now I am conscious of it because I am doing it for the children, I should be doing it for myself as well, so that is one [big] thing I have taken out of this CHEERS project, and I am grateful for.”