Health and nutrition are two issues high up on our agenda. SPAR is a strong believer in the need to provide consumers with good quality products and the relevant nutritional information to ensure a balanced, healthy diet. Within this framework, all International SPAR Own Brand products feature labels with detailed nutritional information.
Through sharing fun food facts, the SPAR Nutrition Zone aims to provide nutritional advice by breaking down the different groups in a fun way. Our SPAR Nutrition Zone materials now feature a ‘food-to-fork’ theme, reflecting our overall nutrition focus. The aim is that both current and future generations learn how healthy eating can contribute to growth and development.
This is shown through a food throwing game with a simple concept and partnered with practical information. The concept behind the throwing game encourages participants to aim a coloured ball into a colour-matching food group. Prizes can include sticker sheets, re-useable shopping bags, activity books and colouring sheets.
This group includes fresh, frozen, tinned, & dried fruits, vegetables and 100% fruit and vegetable juices. Fruits and vegetables offer vitamins, minerals and fibre, which are essential for a healthy lifestyle.
Our bodies need fats, such as unsaturated cooking oils and salad dressings, for energy, proper cell growth and development. Fats can be used in preparing or adding flavour to meals.
This group contains foods such as potatoes, pasta, rice, bread, cereals, barley, oats and other grains. All these products provide vitamins, minerals and fibre, giving us energy to get through the day.
This group contains meat, fish, eggs and dairy products, as well as nuts, legumes and other sources of vegetable protein. These foods provide vitamins and minerals that help the body to grow and repair itself.
Your body needs enough fluids to function properly. Make sure to drink enough throughout the day to keep hydrated. In addition to tea or filtered coffee (without added sugar), drink lots of water.
Some products – like desserts, savoury snacks or sugar-sweetened beverages – contain too much salt, sugar and saturated fats, or have too little fibre. Intake of these products should be limited and not consumed daily.
The European Athletics Indoor Championships is due to be held in Torun, Poland on the 5-7 March 2021.
The European Athletics Team Championships Super League will return to Poland in 2021 after the Slaski Stadium in Silesia was confirmed on Tuesday (17) morning as the host venue for the top tier of Europe’s foremost team event which takes place on 19-20 June.
The European Athletics U23 Championships will remain on Scandinavian soil in 2021 as the Swedish town of Gavle hands the baton over to Bergen in Norway from 8-11 July.
The European Athletics U20 Championships will return to the Kadriorg Stadium in Tallinn, Estonia after a decade-long hiatus. This event will take place from 15 - 18 July 2021.
One of the newest events on the continental calendar, the third edition of the European Athletics U18 Championships will take place in Rieti, Italy from the 26 - 28 August 2021.
The SPAR European Cross Country Championships will be held in Fingal-Dublin on Sunday 12 December 2021.