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Nutrition

91Ƶ’s Food Service teams work every day to ensure students have access to healthy options in their daily dining.

Healthy eating made easy

Through nutrition education, menu transparency, and access to expert guidance, we provide tools that make healthy eating easier. Explore the initiatives and resources designed to support your well‑being—one meal at a time.

Halifax campuses Truro campus
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Halifax campuses

Nutrition programming

Discovering and choosing healthy food and lifestyle choices can help keep your body and mind healthy, fuel your success, and improve your overall well-being.

Our health and wellness program includes a healthy menu strategy, as well as nutrition and other wellness initiatives that promote and support healthy lifestyles.

Our programming focuses on these so-called“4 Es”:

  1. Բa food environment that encourages health and well-being by offering a variety of healthy choices every day
  2. Educate,informand empower the communities we serve by providing evidence-based nutrition and wellness information
  3. Գdzܰa heightened level of interest and excitement about healthy and local choices
  4. Բa community that activelyparticipatesin and is connected to a culture of health and wellness

Registered dietitian

Halifax’s campusesare supported by registered dietitian, Liz Muggah, who designs and delivers nutrition-related programming, as well as supporting students one-on-onein navigating:

  • eating a balanced diet while living in residence

  • managingallergies and intolerances

  • managing nutrition-related chronic illnesses

  • nutrition for athletic performance

  • dining with religious or cultural considerations

  • nutrition solutions for university and residence life

  • residence dining menu questions

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Truro campus

Our Food Services team in Truro is committed to:

  • offeringbalancedmenu items to promote healthier eating

  • usingicons toidentifyhealthy and sustainable menu choices

  • providing nutrition and wellness information through clear signage

  • providing nutritional information at point of sale

  • providingmenu options for special diets (e.g. vegan, gluten-free, kosher, halal, etc.)

  • actively running seasonalwellness promotions
  • NEW! Dietitian services will soon be available on the Truro campus. Check back for details.

If you have any specific dietary restrictions, we will do our best to accommodate them.

If you want to talk to someone about your food options, please emailDianna Castilloat  castillo-dianna@aramark.cato discuss accommodation before you arrive. If not,connect withDianna within your first week on campus to ensure you get offto a good start fora proper, healthy diet.

Email: castillo-dianna@aramark.ca

Quick links

Explore dining halls

All-you-care-to-eat nutritious and delicious meal options for all students, faculty, and staff.

Make dining easy
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Residence meal plans

As part of residence, students are required to have meal plans. Find out more about residence-specific meal plan options.

See Residence meal plans
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Enjoy 5% back on food purchases

DalCard is your all-access pass to campus – find out how you can save by paying with your DalCard at campus food locations.

Pay with your DalCard
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We want to hear from you

Questions about dining? Feedback you'd like to share? Contact the 91Ƶ Food Services teams on the Halifax and Truro campuses.

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