Menu Planning and Healthy Eating Guidelines for Children

This document provides information on menu planning and healthy eating guidelines for children, including meal plans for breakfast and lunch, nutrition needs, strategies for menu planning and meal preparation, creating a positive mealtime environment, and the importance of child care services in child development. It also discusses different menu options for children with food allergies, medical conditions, food preferences, and cultural or religious requirements. The document concludes with a discussion on the use and benefits of child care services.

ASSESSMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Assessment 1....................................................................................................................................1
Meals plan for lunch and breakfast.............................................................................................1
Menu that must include food and drinks that meet the need of nutrition...................................1
Menu of food an drinks for various condition............................................................................1
Discuss strategy for menu planning and assisting meal preparation...........................................2
Discuss strategy for following:...................................................................................................3
Discuss three strategies for creating a positive and relaxed mealtime environment...................3
Assessment 2....................................................................................................................................3
Child care services......................................................................................................................3
Information about child care services.........................................................................................3
Use of child care services............................................................................................................4
Associated learning process........................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Healthy diet plan helps a person to effective gain better health and benefits of active life
style(Bell, Collins, and Marsden, 2020). A healthy diet is essential for the good nutrition and
health. It protect the person from the various non communicable diseases so that person can gain
better life results and growth of good care of daily routine. Eating variety of foods and
consuming healthy nutrition can improve living of the individual and also provide effective
healthy life style. This report explain menu plan and healthy eating guidelines for the the age
group of born child to 8 years old. Menu include the different level of menu that helps in better
living and healthy life style. Also various strategies that involve food plan for the child suffering
from various diseases. Various strategies to create positive and relaxed environment during the
meal time.
Assessment 1
1) Meals plan for lunch and breakfast.
Breakfast: For the prefect meal plan for the breakfast it should include boiled eggs,
porridge, juice or milk, bread butter and oats.
Lunch: For the perfect lunch it should include vegetables, high grain bread, protein
shack, and salad.
2) Menu that must include food and drinks that meet the need of nutrition.
Food and drinks with high nutritions include lean meat, dairy products, nuts, seeds, high
grain bread, fish and smoothie with high grain beans and fruits. For new born child milk is best
option.
3) Menu of food an drinks for various condition.
 Child who has a food allergy: For the child suffering from food allergy there are various
food and drink menu that can help in better treatment of food allergy and helps to provide
healthy living(Chen, and Yang, 2020). there are some allergy friendly foods for the
child: Fruits, vegetables, seeds, grains excluding wheat, Legumes excluding peanuts etc.
parents of child should include these in the menu of their child so that it can help child to
have healthy life style. They can include fruits and legumes excluding peanuts in the
breakfast of child. For mid day snacks citrus fruits like oranges, lemons, berries. For
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lunch oily fish and brown rice with tomatoes. For evening snacks fruit bowel with high
nutritions and high grains. For dinner rice with eggs, the food recommend by the doctor It
could be an effective diet plan for the child and it healthy living.
 Child who has medical condition: Child having medical condition should follow
effective and healthy diet plan that helps in better living and growth of the child with
healthy living. For the breakfast Menu eggs and brown bread with milk or juice should be
included(Chen, and Yen, 2021). For mid day snacks high protein food with low fats
such as fruits and smoothie. For lunch green vegetables, egg, brown rice, high fibre
bread. For evening snacks gains food such as corn salad, oats and barley. And for dinner
it should include eggs, milk, low crabs food. This diet menu helps child to increase the
growth and effectiveness in the muscles development.
 Child who has a food preference: Child who is having food preference should follow
this diet chart in order to gain better growth and development of the body. For the
breakfast menu it should include eggs, protein smoothie, bread butter and milk or juice.
For the mid day snacks it should include beans and shacks. In lunch high grain bread, or
fish soup and rice. For the evening snacks oats, wheat bread and mix fruit juice. For
dinner vegetables, eggs, beans and nuts.
 Family that request food due to the culture and religion requirements: Family with
the request of culture and religion foods and drinks should follow vegetarian diet meal so
that they can have healthy and foods and drinks with effective daily protein. For the
breakfast they should be provided vegetable oats and soup, for mid day snacks they
should be provided juice and fruits. For the lunch vegetables and high protein breads and
brown rice. For the evening snacks they should be provided high grain vitamins and
nutritional fruits. For the dinner they should eat beans, nuts and vegetables.
4) Discuss strategy for menu planning and assisting meal preparation.
A perfect strategy for the effective menu plan can helps in better living and healthy
growth of human being(Efrat, and Levy, 2020). For starting successful diet plan person should
include all types of food with high nutritions and grains so that it can help in better growth and
achievement of healthy living. Person should create recipes collection that contains high protein
and fibres. This strategies can helps in achievement of effective dirt plan menu.
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5) Identify how one can make place furniture and utensils to make meals enjoyable for children.
For the effective dining environment all the family members should eat their meals
together so that child can enjoy their meals and learn how to eat in effective manner. During the
dinner and lunch time all the members of the family should teach their child to eat healthy food
so that it can helps children to understand about the importance healthy eating.
6) Discuss strategy for following:
 Safe handling: This was made and design for the achievement of and helps the workers
to meet one or workplace safety goals. It may develop by the individual workplace,
company, or government.
 Safe preparation: This was made to ensure the safety of food prepare, a person should
follow these in order to fulfil the need of safe preparation of food(Somuncu, and Sert,
2019). Keeping raw foods ready to eat food separate to avoid cross contamination. Make
every day cleaning habits in the routine.
 Safe storage of food and drinks: This helps the individual to gain effective safety of
food and drinks products so that healthy life style can be achieved.
7) Discuss three strategies for creating a positive and relaxed mealtime environment.
For creating a positive environment at the mealtime family should eat at the same time so
that it can helps family members to eat with happiness. Developing meal time routines can help
the person to gain effective meal and development of healthy living style.
8) Discuss how you would share this menu for families and other educators to see.
The educator family needs to add healthy and fresh food in their menu so that it can help
in effective growth and healthy life style. For the effective and healthy diet plan they should
include eggs, lean meat, fish etc.
Assessment 2
Child care services.
Child care services refer to the day care centres that provide effective services to the child
and provide them healthy and safe environment for the better living. These facilities are provide
for the children. Day care services provide positive and healthy environment to the child and care
their education, learning, eating, physical activities, supports to aid appropriate development.
Child care services include various tasks including preparing materials, activities, games, and
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daily meals(Zheng, Lin, and Kwon, 2020). Child care centre ensure that they provide healthy
and effective diet plan to the child so that its helps in better development and growth in the
future. Also they ensure that hygiene safety should be followed by the centre so that child's good
health should be ensured. Day care centres ensure that all the children get effective meal plan in
order to provide them healthy eating and development.
Information about child care services.
Child care services should be used in effective manner so that child feel safe and secure
in the centre and develop with other children. Safe preparation of the food should be ensured so
that child could get effective food plan with healthy vitamins and nutritions. Also safe
preparation strategy enhance the level of effective growth and development of the child and
increase the level of healthy development. Child care services should increase the level of
hygiene so that safe environment can be created in order to provide healthy life style. Effective
diet plan increase the level of effectiveness and growth of the child also protect them form
harmful environment.
Use of child care services.
Effective diet plan for the child can help in better growth and development of the
children. It assist better growth of the child by providing them high protein meals and high fibres
meals. High protein meal assist better physical growth of the child and it increase healthy life
style of them. Use of these services in effective manner can increase the level of effective growth
and fulfilment of the child needs and demands.
Associated learning process.
Learning process of diet plan helps the child care services to increase the level of growth
and physical growth of the child. Effective growth of the child can be achieved when effective
diet plan process can be followed. Learning process of child care services increase the level of
growth and plan of the better treatment. Use of this services increase the level of growth and
achievement physical growth of the child.
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CONCLUSION
From the above information it can be conclude that effective diet plan help the person to
gain better living standard and development of healthy life. High protein food contains better
growth and development of the child and increase the level of effectiveness in the future. Healthy
life style helps person to gain better growth increase effectiveness of the food and drinks for the
daily life and increase the level of effective health of family. Various strategies helps person to
grow and increase the level of effectiveness and growth.
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