The Phoenix Restaurant on NUI Maynooth’s North Campus is part of the Compass Group global food service company and, as such, has the advantage of being able to avail of the services of Compass’ very own dieticians. These dieticians make a positive contribution at the Phoenix with their most significant impact being the role they play in promoting health, wellness and nutrition.
Nutritional labelling plays a big part in the Phoenix’s strategy as it continues to roll out their healthy eating framework ‘Balanced Choices’, providing healthy food choices across the various menu offerings. This gives their consumers the nutritional information that they need to make informed choices.
This year, Compass also launched a new healthy eating programme, ‘Whole+Sum’. This innovative programme enables consumers to select a healthy and balanced meal by adding together calorie controlled food options to the value of 600 calories or less per meal. ‘Whole+Sum’ reflects consumer trends by combining popular world cuisine flavour profiles and comfort foods, with enough variety that adds to people’s enjoyment on their visit to the ‘Whole+Sum’ station every day.
As a demonstration of their commitment to the initiative, Phoenix constantly strive to improve the nutritional labelling at their Restaurant, including the introduction of calorie counts and improving knowledge and awareness of the benefits of a balanced nutritional diet. The Phoenix will also strive to reduce the levels of salt and artificial trans fats in the food they serve each day.
So all of the above is good news for those who may feel that they have over indulged during the Christmas break, as a carefully planned out daily calorie intake combined with the right balance of foods should get them back on track and NO it does not mean you don’t have to exercise as well!
Phoenix Restaurant, NUI Maynooth 
I couldn’t agree more that a carefully planned diet is the key to health, and meal satisfaction. Let’s hear it for great wording!
That said: your picture above includes a lot of processed grains. You have the pasta noodles on the plate thumbnail, and the hoagie/grinder in the header shot… Maybe we can push some replacements of the tan foods with some meat and greens? A good meal of healthy proteins, healthy fats, and fresh vegetables will do wonders for satisfying hunger!