Aussie Childcare Network Forum

How can you promote healthy eating in children at a service?
 Developing a whole school food policy
 Involving pupils and parents in guiding food policy and practice within the school, and enabling them to contribute to healthy eating, and acting on their feedback
 Offering healthy foods in school canteens
 Providing clean, cool-water fountains
 Assessing the food provided at the school canteen and vending machines
 Providing parents with information on healthy food choices and active living
 Developing a school vegetable garden
 Offering regular snack breaks for students to eat fruit and vegetables
 Allowing students to bring their water bottles into the classroom with them
 Providing a welcoming eating environment that encourages positive social interaction.
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please suggest is my Response sufficent or what else I need to add in it.thanks

-How can you promote healthy eating in children at a service?
 displaying healthy foods posters and drawings
 identifying children's likes and dislikes and any nutritional needs they may have and ensuring that the menu is based on these principles
 encourage children and families to put forward suggestions for the menu and provide feedback on the current menu
 encouraging them to try different foods from different cultures
 providing children with books in the book corner on healthy foods
 ensuring that all the pretend food in the home corner is nutritious and healthy
 promoting healthy eating with the puzzles you offer children
 providing children with cooking experiences that encourage healthy eating and preparation
 placing information in the newsletter about healthy eating and recipes parents can use at home
 providing families with strategies that they can use at home to foster healthy eating
 discussing with parents the child's eating patterns, what the child ate, when they ate, what they liked and disliked, so hopefully parents can adapt the same patterns at home
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seep wrote:QR_BBPOST -How can you promote healthy eating in children at a service?
 displaying healthy foods posters and drawings
 identifying children's likes and dislikes and any nutritional needs they may have and ensuring that the menu is based on these principles
 encourage children and families to put forward suggestions for the menu and provide feedback on the current menu
 encouraging them to try different foods from different cultures
 providing children with books in the book corner on healthy foods
 ensuring that all the pretend food in the home corner is nutritious and healthy
 promoting healthy eating with the puzzles you offer children
 providing children with cooking experiences that encourage healthy eating and preparation
 placing information in the newsletter about healthy eating and recipes parents can use at home
 providing families with strategies that they can use at home to foster healthy eating
 discussing with parents the child's eating patterns, what the child ate, when they ate, what they liked and disliked, so hopefully parents can adapt the same patterns at home

This response is good!

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Lorina

Thanks Lorina,your suggestions are really valueable,am about to complete half of my certiificate and you have been a great help thrghoughout.

Promoting healthy eating in children can be a really tiring task as they don;t seem to listen or understand anything that is for their own benefit. And since most healthy food is tasteless, they just hate it.

I believe the best way to promote healthy eating in children is to cook food that is both tasty and healthy.

For example you can cook a vegetable pizza that is fat-free and has lots of nutrients with a bunch of veggies, it will give them the nutrition they need for their active lifestyle.

Children need to eat a balanced diet, so cooking healthy food is the best way to give them this. Additionally, you can also opt for the following tips:

• Give them freedom to eat when they want to.
• Make mealtimes relaxed and comfortable
• Sit and eat with the children
• Encourage fussy eaters to try new foods
• Be a good role model with the foods you eat
• Teach the children about healthy eating through discussions, questions, games and activities
• Avoid buying unhealthy foods in bulk
• Promote fruits and veggies at dinner
• Stick to a strict meal and snack schedule
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