Menu planning checklists for family day care
This resource contains three checklists to match the meal times of your family day care to help you plan and review your menu.
What is the checklist for?
The Menu planning checklists for family day care outline the amounts and types of foods required to meet the nutrition needs of 1–5 year old children in family day care.
Who is the checklist for?
- Family day care providers
- Health promotion officer
- Council staff
Benefits to providing and promoting healthy foods and drinks while children are in care
- Helps your service meet the healthy food and drink requirements of the National Quality Framework
- Supports children’s growth and development, mental wellbeing, and oral health. Children will learn better and be more alert when they eat well
- Reduces children’s risk of developing nutrition-related chronic conditions later in life
- Engages and supports families to also provide and promote healthy eating at home
- Helps reduce food wastage
The checklist in a snapshot
Three checklists are available to match the meal times of your family day care. Select the suitable ‘Menu planning checklist’ to plan or review your menu.
Written and reviewed by dietitians and nutritionists at National Nutrition Foundation, with support from the Victorian Government.
Popular resources referencing this guideline
Making sure you offer enough food from each core food...
Unsure what guidelines apply to you?
Our goal is to empower organisations through expert, innovative and evidence-informed nutrition and healthy eating support.
The Healthy Eating Advisory Service acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which we operate. We pay our respects to them, their culture and their Elders past and present.
The Healthy Eating Advisory Service is delivered by experienced nutritionists and dietitians at National Nutrition Foundation, with support from the Victorian Government.
Register your interest
"*" indicates required fields