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Taking care of others has traditionally been a job left up to women. However, with professional careers, husbands, kids, soccer practices, gymnastics classes, and piano lessons, finding time to cook healthful meals for your family seems only possible if you are part Superhero. Thankfully, Brenda Bot and Salad Creations have come to our rescue, yet again. Salad Creations is currently working towards acquiring the Health Check symbol on all of their products.

Health Check is a voluntary program that food companies and restaurants can join only if their products meet set nutrient standards. These standards are based on Canada’s Food Guide and developed by registered dietitians and a Technical Advisory Committee of independent nutrition experts from across Canada. Salad Creations has provided their recipes, menus, and current nutritional information to the Heart and Stroke Foundation to undergo analysis and testing on the breakdown of total fat, saturated fat, trans fats, fibre, sodium, calcium, sugar, vitamins, and minerals in their products.

Achieving the Health Check symbol is a lengthy process, but justifiably so. Representatives from the Heart and Stroke Foundation will go on location and take samples of products to analyze at their labs. They do their own breakdown of nutritional information in order to provide Salad Creations with their feedback. Salad Creations may then have to tweak recipes to satisfy and meet the set requirements to officially be part of the Health Check program.

Salad Creations aims to provide meal options for everyone, regardless of their current situation. Some people aim to start eating healthy for the purpose of losing weight, medical reasons, or just to begin a life-long change in their lifestyle and diet. With the Health Check symbol on their wraps, soups, freshly made product, build your own salad options, dressings, and more, Salad Creations will hold you by the hand and guide you in the direction that you need to go to start you on your healthy journey.

Although Brenda Bot claims she is usually a risk averse person, she seems to be fearlessly breaking borders and changing the way we think about healthy living and eating. Joining the Health Check program will take a lot of Bot’s time and energy, but having built a franchise from the bottom up that boasts locations that are fully recyclable, sustainable, and green, this should seem like a walk in the park for her. With a disposition of: “I am not going to fail,” and putting her heart and soul into Salad Creations at all times, there is nothing that this do-it-all powerhouse cannot achieve.