Make healthy eating fun and easy in child care services and outside school hours care with these tips:

Five food groups

• Fruity fun snacks for kids
• Fun ways to add vegetables to the menu
• Grainy goodies for kids
• Menu ideas and tips for milk and alternatives
• Tasty ways to include meat and alternatives
• Best Practice Guidelines for Increasing Children's Vegetable Intake:
  Long day care
• Best Practice Guidelines for Increasing Children's Vegetable Intake:
  Out-of-School Hours Care

Snacks

• Breakfast ideas for outside school hours care
• Morning and afternoon tea ideas
• Delicious dips and healthy dippers
• Spreads and toppings
• 7 days of veggie snacks

Meals

• The keys to a healthy sandwich
• Four steps to a healthy vegetarian meal

Plus

• Reducing salt in your service. Did you know that 75% of the salt we eat each day comes from packaged and processed foods - not the salt shaker? Here are some helpful tips to reduce the amount of salt on your menu.
• Fun and descriptive words for healthy foods: Lots of ways to name your meals and snacks that will make healthy foods hard to resist!
• Managing food costs: Handy tips to manage the costs and reduce waste when planning your menu
• Lunchbox resources: A collection of resources to help you pack a delicious and healthy lunchbox that kids will love.

Do you know we have menu planning guidelines for long day care, outside school hours care and family day care? See our Menu planning page for helpful resources, checklists and sample menus.