Menu Planning Resources
The resources below are designed to assist cooks and menu planners to plan nutritious menus that meet the Caring for Children - Birth to 5 years guidelines. The resources include checklists, helpful tips and recipe ideas for services that provide meals and snacks to children.
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Caring for Children - Birth to 5 years (Food, Nutrition and Learning Experiences)
This manual is an essential resource for service Cooks, providing practical information to meet the food and nutrition needs of children 0-5 years in care.
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Caring for Children Menu Planning Checklists
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Healthy Food Guidelines for Services
This one page resource contains a list of foods that are best left in, and best left out of service menus and child lunchboxes. It also has some nutrition guidelines on how to determine if a packaged food is ok to be included based on its fat, sugar and sodium content.
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Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
This is a visual guide to healthy eating showing the proportion of each food group that should be consumed each day, as well as examples of the types of foods that fit within each food group.
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The Yummy Tummy Book
This menu planning recipe book was developed by Western Sydney Local Health District in 2018. It contains helpful tips on menu planning, weekly meal plans and recipes for ECEC services.
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The Good for Kids team also provide a free menu review service to services in the Hunter New England Local Health District who have completed the Munch & Move training.
To find out more about this process, speak with your local Health Promotion Officer or email HNELHD-GoodForKids@health.nsw.gov.au
