Food Foundations Menu Reviews
Reviewing your child care menu and nutrition practices will support your centre to meet the National Quality Standards, and more importantly ensure the children in your care are receiving nourishing foods for growing healthy minds and bodies.
Why review your menu?
Having your menu reviewed is a quality improvement activity where you will receive support from an experienced early years Dietitian to:
- Improve provision of the five core food groups and reduce the amount of discretionary foods on your menu
- Support your centre cook in menu planning to meet 50% of children’s food requirements
- Get ideas for snacks, meals and simple recipe modifications
- Get more positive feedback from parents about your centre menu
What is included?
- A meeting with a Food Foundations Dietitian
- Review of a 4 week menu
- A comprehensive report with tailored recommendations for your menu
- Follow up phone support
Menu Review Options
We have three different levels of menu reviews to choose from.
Level 1: Review of your menu to assess if you are meeting 50% of children’s daily food requirements.
Level 2: Review of your menu to assess if you are meeting 50% of children’s daily food requirements, plus a review of infant feeding practices and all food and mealtime practices and policies at the centre.
Mealtime Review: An onsite audit of mealtimes to support positive meal environments and feeding practices. Ask us about adding this on to your menu review.