Your service is aiming to encourage and support breastfeeding, provide fruit and vegetables and/or request fruit and vegetables in lunchboxes and plan positive meal environments.

Make a plan to achieve Plant Fruit and Veg in your Lunchbox

• Download the 'Plant Fruit and Veg in your Lunchbox' Starter Pack booklet


• Find events to link the Plant Fruit and Veg message to on the:
  • Move Well Eat Well Events Calendar.
  • Move Well Eat Well Events Calendar (accessible)

Resources for supporting healthy eating

• Nurturing healthy eating at mealtimes in the early childhood setting

• How does your garden grow? A resource for creating and growing vegetable and fruit gardens developed by the Clarence Council.

• Grow it, Eat it - Gardening and cooking resource for educators

• Gardening with Children A Family Food Patch resource

• Health on the Shelf - Books about growing, cooking and eating food

• Cooking and recipes

Information to share at your service

Newsletter inserts

Select and save the below jpeg files to your computer and then insert into your services newsletter. Please note that these may take some time to download.

• Lunchbox and snack ideas flyers

• What milks for what age?


• Fun with fruit


• Fun with veg


• Babies and eating

• Juice is not the same as fresh fruit


• Eat a Rainbow

Posters and displays

Print out these posters to display at your service.

• Eat a Rainbow poster


• Lunchbox, snack and drink posters


• Healthy Plate poster

Pamphlets, fact sheets and information

Infant Feeding:

• Infant feeding resources - fact sheets, pictorial guides, and policy template.

• Breastfeeding and returning to work

• Tucker Talk resources - Infant feeding resources for pregnancy and early childhood workers (0-5 yrs)

• A Care Givers Guide to the Breastfed Baby (Aust. Breastfeeding Assoc.)

Eating fruit and veg:

• First foods: Food provided by the early childhood setting - Get up and Grow resource

• Lunchbox ideas: Meals for early childhood settings - Get up and Grow resource

• Tucker Talk resources - Nutrition resources for pregnancy and early childhood workers (0-5 yrs)

Safety:

• Food safety: How to pack a hot lunch - step by step instructions for families to safely use an insulated food container (like a Thermos)

• Food and lunchbox safety


• Food allergies - Allergy Aware Website

Ideas for families

Let families know they can visit the For Families section of this website to find fun ideas on how they can get more fruit and veg. No password is needed.