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Healthy Together Victoria

Improving wellbeing through healthy eating

  • About HEAS
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    • Getting started
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      • Long day care
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      • Outside school hours care
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      • Menu planning for babies
    • Assess your menu (FoodChecker)
    • Training
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    • Healthier ingredients
    • Allergy and intolerance
      • Allergy policy and action plans
      • Food intolerance
      • Low allergy pantry items
      • Reading food labels
      • Recipe modification
      • Cow’s milk allergy
      • Egg allergy
      • Fish and shellfish allergy
      • Nut allergy
      • Sesame allergy
      • Soy allergy
      • Wheat allergy
      • Coeliac disease
    • Developing a healthy eating policy
      • Policy checklist
    • Promoting healthy eating
    • Healthy curriculum activities
      • Cooking with kids
      • Healthy eating games and activities
      • Introducing new foods to children
      • Taste the rainbow
    • Government guidelines
    • Case Studies
    • Reducing food waste at your service
    • Other programs and services
  • Schools
    • Getting started
    • Vic Kids Eat Well
    • School Canteens and Other School Food Services Policy
    • Menu planning
    • FoodChecker
    • Recipes
    • Food and drink ideas
    • Promoting healthy foods
    • Healthy lunchboxes
    • Vending machines
    • A whole school approach
    • Classroom
    • Other programs and services
    • Training
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  • Hospitals & health services
    • Understanding the Healthy choices: policy directive for Victorian public health services
      • Policy directive frequently asked questions
    • Policy directive food and drink targets
    • FoodChecker for hospitals and health services
    • Implementing the Policy directive: resource hub
    • Training
    • Case studies
    • Recipes
  • Sport & recreation
    • Getting started
    • Healthy Choices guidelines
      • Traffic light system
      • Sport & recreation centres and parks
    • Priorities and simple changes
    • Training/Mentorship
    • Case studies
      • Promoting healthier choices
        • Marketing material
      • Working with caterers and self-catering
        • Catering within your workplace
        • Working with catering providers
        • Healthy food and drink ideas
        • Healthy barbecues
      • Working with food outlets
        • Healthier food outlet benefits
      • Healthy vending
        • Organisations without vending machines
        • Organisations with vending machines
        • Healthy vending ideas
        • Healthy vending plan-o-grams
      • Organisational policy and supplier contracts
        • Food service agreement template
        • Organisational policy template
    • Workplaces & universities
      • Getting started
      • Healthy Choices guidelines
        • Traffic light system
        • Workplaces
          • Staffrooms and staff kitchens
          • Healthy BBQs
        • Universities, TAFEs & colleges
      • Priorities and simple changes
        • Reducing sugary drinks
      • Training/Mentorship
      • Case studies
      • Promoting healthier choices
        • Healthy Choices marketing material
      • Food and drink ideas
      • Working with caterers and self-catering
        • Catering within your workplace
        • Working with catering providers
        • Healthy food and drink ideas
      • Working with food outlets
        • Healthier food outlet benefits
      • Healthy vending
        • Organisations without vending machines
        • Organisations with vending machines
        • Healthy vending ideas
        • Healthy vending plan-o-grams
      • Organisational policy and supplier contracts
        • Food service agreement template
        • Organisational policy template
    • Food industry
      • FoodChecker
      • Training
        • Early childhood
        • Outside school hours care
        • Schools
        • Healthy Choices guidelines

      Early childhood services

      • Getting started
      • National Quality Standard
      • Menu planning
      • Assess your menu (FoodChecker)
      • Training
      • Case studies
      • Recipes
      • Food and drink ideas
      • Healthier ingredients
      • Allergy and intolerance
      • Healthy eating policy
      • Promoting healthy eating
      • Curriculum activities
      • Government guidelines
      • Reducing food waste at your service
      • Other programs & services

      FoodChecker

      Find out if your long day care menu meets the Menu planning guidelines for free using FoodChecker!

      Learn more.

      Online training

      Learn how to provide healthier foods and drinks in long day care and OSHC in our FREE online training.

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      Healthier ingredients

      Small changes can make a big difference to the foods and drinks in your early childhood service.

      Try swapping some ingredients and meals for these healthier alternatives, to provide more nutritious foods and drinks for young children in child care.

      • The keys to a healthy sandwich
      • Four steps to a healthy vegetarian meal
      • Healthier baked items
      • Healthy food swaps
      • Healthy food substitutions

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      The Healthy Eating Advisory Service is delivered by experienced nutritionists and dietitians at Nutrition Australia, with support from the Victorian Government.