Healthy Kids News & Advice

Your step-by-step guide to reading food labels

14/12/2015 Help for Parents

As people become much more aware of nutrition information panels on fresh, prepackaged and ready-to-eats foods, it's essential that they are also read correctly and fully understood. This is particularly
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How to save $1,000 on your food bill every year

14/12/2015 Healthy Eating, Help for Parents

Cleaning out your fridge, cupboard and fruit bowl can be a frustrating business. How often do you find yourself tossing out fruit and veggies that you swear were only
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Your end of year canteen checklist

26/11/2015 Canteen Advice, Canteen Corner

You've just closed the shutters on the last lunch service and are patting yourself on the back for a job well done. But there are a few things to
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Healthy fish and chips

23/11/2015 Healthy Eating, Help for Parents, Recipes

Serves 4 Olive oil spray 2 large sweet potatoes, cut into wedges 2 large white potatoes, cut into wedges 1 egg 2 tablespoons reduced fat milk 2 tablespoons plain flour 3/4 cup bread crumbs (preferably wholemeal) 600g
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Microwave risotto

20/11/2015 Canteen recipes, Everyday, GREEN, Healthy Eating, Help for Parents, Hot meals, Recipes

Everyday (NSW) GREEN (ACT & SA) You don’t have to stand stirring a pot for ages to produce a tasty risotto. Use whatever veggies you have on hand to make this
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Your diet could be harming your child

21/10/2015 Help for Parents

In September this year, a toddler who was double the average weight for her age was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. In an age of increasing childhood diet-related disease,
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What does a week’s healthy lunch box look like?

21/10/2015 GREEN, Healthy Eating, Help for Parents, Lunchbox, Salad, Sandwiches & wraps, Snacks

Below are just a few suggestions on what a healthy lunch box could look like over five days. We're certainly not saying that these are the ultimate lunch box ingredients
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Keeping afloat despite canteen challenges

23/09/2015 Canteen Advice

For some canteens, being healthy can come last if the focus is always on making a profit. With this in mind, we thought we’d look at a few challenges
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Using funky names to market your canteen menu items

14/09/2015 Canteen Advice, Healthy Eating

How do you sell or market �?healthy’ to kids when competing with the fast food industry and its marketing power? Studies have shown that giving foods descriptive names can
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‘Let’s Go Green’ wraps

21/08/2015 Canteen recipes, Everyday, GREEN, Healthy Eating, Lunchbox, Recipes, Sandwiches & wraps

Everyday (NSW) GREEN (ACT & SA) Wraps are a great alternative to sandwiches and a great way to get include lots of salad. Spinach and herb wraps are similar to white wraps
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