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FOOD AT UBC VANCOUVER

FOOD AT UBC VANCOUVER

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Finding the Right Balance

Eating a balanced diet is vital for good health and wellbeing, and also supports your academic success! Our Registered Dietitians support students in residence at UBC Vancouver by providing resources and guidance for various food and nutrition topics.

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Nutrition Tools

UBC’s residence dining rooms have tools like menu icons, allergen lists, nutrition information and online menus to help you make educated choices about the food you eat.

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Online Menus

View nutrition and allergen information, menu schedules, and filter by dietary preferences for all three residence dining rooms online and in the Nutrislice app.

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Food Allegeries

While we do not have allergen-free facilities and cannot guarantee a completely allergen-free environment, we take steps to minimize the risk of exposure.

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Meet Our Dietitians

Melissa Baker-Wilson, MHSc, RD

Manager, Nutrition and Wellbeing

Melissa Baker-Wilson completed her dietetics degree at UBC and a Masters of Health Science at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is an AllerTrain Certified Master Trainer, and works hard to support students at UBC with allergies. Melissa is passionate about ensuring the university residence environment supports a healthy lifestyle and helps young adults create healthy habits for life. Melissa has worked in many different practice areas including clinical, retail, industry, media, HR and consulting.

Tamara Paetsch, Registered Dietitian

Tamara Paetsch, RD

Food & Nutrition Coordinator

Tamara Paetsch completed her nutrition degree and dietetics training at the University of Manitoba. She is passionate about helping students build healthy lifestyles, and ensuring students have positive and safe dining experiences at UBC.

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Drop-In Office Hours

Drop-in office hours are normally held 1-3pm Thursdays in room 2118A in Orchard Commons, but are currently suspended due to COVID-19.

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Get In Touch By Email

No time to meet up? Students in residence can email our dietitians with food or nutrition questions.

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Nutrition Blog

Helpful articles about special diets, cooking, budgeting and more!

Dietary Guides

Veganism
Vegetarianism
(coming soon)

Gluten-Free
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Cooking

Learn to Cook 
Meal Planning
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Budgeting

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Meal Plans

Residence Meal Plans

General Nutrition

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Ways of Eating

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Ways of Eating
Ditch The Diet Talk
Nutrition
How to Choose Healthy Beverages
Lactose-Free
So, How Do You Know You’re Lactose-Intolerant
Ways of Eating
The Best Diet Might Not Be A Diet
Celiac Disease and Gluten-Free
I Know I Have Celiac Disease, What’s Next?
Celiac Disease and Gluten-Free
So, You Think You Have Celiac Disease
Ways of Eating
So, You’re Thinking of Trying Intermittent Fasting
Easy Recipes
Noshin’s Stuffed & Coated Dates
Learn to Cook
How to Easily Cut Mango
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We acknowledge that SHCS and UBC are located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. We thank the Musqueam Nation for its hospitality and support of our work.

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