Child nutrition
What's There to Eat?
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newsletters | The practical
guide to feeding families | What's There to Eat? - Child
nutrition tip sheets | Implementation
strategy
What's There to Eat?
What's There to Eat? is a resource for early childhood service
provides about nutrition and how to encourage healthy eating in families.
It has been developed and designed specifically for professionals who work
in early childhood services, i.e. child care centres, kindergartens/early
childhood centres, maternal and child health centres.
The guide provides resources to assist professionals by:
- updating working knowledge of food and nutrition
- providing access to food and nutrition information useful for parents
and families
- giving practical, hands-on activities that promote healthy eating
- offering linkages to other service providers and sources of information.
What's There to Eat? newsletters
What's There to Eat? quarterly newsletters provide updates on the
latest nutrition issues affecting young children for maternal and child
health nurses, childcare professionals, kindergarten teachers and dietitians.
Included is information on the latest research and case studies.
What's There to Eat? - The practical guide
to feeding families
A resource for early childhood service providers about food and nutrition
and how to encourage healthy eating in families.
 Section 1 - Introduction (477kb, pdf)
- About the DHS Strategy to promote healthy eating
- The aims of What’s There To Eat?
- How to make the most of What’s There To Eat?
Section
2 - Food & nutrition (1.09mb, pdf)
- Healthy eating guidelines: What they mean
- The case for eating plenty of fruit and vegetables
- Babies – the first year
- Healthy eating for tots and toddlers
- How much should a child eat?
- Common concerns about kids and food
- Eating for health
- Putting policy into practice
Section 3 - Family tips (3.84mb, pdf)
- Filling the gap nutrition sheets
- Breastfeeding facts for fathers
- Breastfeeding
Section
4 - Case studies & local media (705kb, pdf)
- Case studies from different Victorian community service providers
- Write your own case study
- Using your local media
Section
5 - Recipes & shopping (513kb, pdf)
- Shopping and meal preparation for families
- Shopping for fresh vegetables and fruit
- Kids in the kitchen
- Tried and true recipes for families and children
Section
6 - Food safety & activities (305kb, pdf)
- Food safety for centres and services
- Food safety in the home
- Healthy eating in action
- Recipe clubs
- Food displays
- Food tastings
- Cooking demonstrations
Section 7 - Local evaluation (314kb, pdf)
- What’s There To Eat? Nutrition Activities Evaluation
- Evaluation of What’s There To Eat?
Section
8 - Contacts & resources (312kb, pdf)
- Usefu organisations
- List of resources
- Newsletters and other materials
What's There to Eat? - Child nutrition
tip sheets
Tip and fact sheets can be copied and handed to parents and carers
of young children. Information can help with issues related to the eating
habits of families and children and covers the age range 0 to 8 years.
Healthy
lunch boxes for children (102kb, pdf)
Healthy
lifestyles to prevent and manage overweight in childhood (73kb, pdf)
'Try it
- you'll like it!' Vegetables and fruit for children (83kb, pdf)
Why no sweet
drinks for children (86kb, pdf)
Food in the
first year of life (69kb, pdf)
Healthy
eating for young toddlers (66kb, pdf)
Healthy eating in pre-kindergarten years (65kb, pdf)
Healthy eating for kindergarten (59kb, pdf)
Healthy eating
in the primary school years (79kb, pdf)
Breastfeeding
facts for fathers (40kb, pdf)
Breastfeeding
(36kb, pdf)
Implementation strategy
Distribution of the resource What's There to Eat? has taken place
through a professional development workshop and an evaluation examines
the outcomes.
Organisation undertaking the work: Royal Children's Hospital.
Timelines: Completed.
Project brief:
What's There to Eat? child nutrition tip sheets (166kb, pdf)
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