Menu planner: template for services

​​​​​​This template will help you plan your healthy menu.​

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1. What to include on the daily service menu
2. Daily serves for toddlers and children in care for 8 hours
3. ​ Menu planner template

What to include on the daily service menu

• Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea for children in care for 8 hours.
• A variety of food and drink to meet the required serves from each food group.
• Food and drink at the right texture and shape for a child’s age.
• Options that meet the needs of children under 2 years.
• Extra meals or snacks such as breakfast or late afternoon tea for children in care for more than 8 hours.
• Water at all meal and snack times and throughout the day.
• A variety of tastes, textures, colours and flavours.
• Foods from different cultures.
• Different main meals for each day over a 2-week cycle.

Daily serves for toddlers and children in care for 8 hours

	Vegetables and legumes/​beans	Grain (cereal) foods, mostly wholegrain and/or high fibre	Fruit	Milk, yoghurt, cheese, and/​or plant-based alternatives with added calcium	Lean meat and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds and legumes/​beans
Toddlers (1 to 2 years)	1 to 1½	2	¼	½ to ¾	½
Children (2 to 5 years)	2	2	1	1	¾

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