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Healthy eating - Fruit + Veg program
Page content: Background nutrition information | Fruit + Veg recipes | School involvement
Healthy eating is important for children.
Healthy eating is important for everybody.
The Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents give advice about making healthy food choices that contribute to lifestyles that promote health and the prevention of diet related diseases particularly later in life.
Background nutrition information for teachers
Includes advice on:
- why it is important to eat vegetables and fruit
- which fruit and vegetables are recommended
- how many vegetables and fruit children need to eat
- ways of encouraging children to eat more fruit and vegetables
 Background nutrition information for teachers (476kb, pdf)
Other relevant information is available in the following tip sheets:
'Try it - you'll like it!' Vegetables and fruit for children (83kb, pdf)
Healthy eating in the primary school years (97kb, pdf)
Healthy lunch boxes for children (102kb, pdf)
Healthy lifestyles to prevent and manage overweight in childhood (73kb, pdf)
Why no sweet drinks for children (86kb, pdf)
Fruit + Veg recipes
Tasty recipes that children and parents or teachers can prepare together.
Recipes for Lower Primary, Prep to Year 2 (120kb, pdf)
Recipes for Middle Primary, Years 3 – 4 (322kb, pdf)
Recipes for Upper Primary, Years 5 – 6 (132kb, pdf)
School involvement in the Fruit + Veg program
See school involvement for information on the different ways schools have approached nutrition education - through classroom activities, school food policy, extra-curricular activities, and developing positive relationships with school canteens and fruit and vegtable retailers.
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