Get up & grow: healthy eating and physical activity for early childhood: cooking for children (2009)

Description

The Get up and grow: healthy eating and physical activity for early childhood guidelines and accompanying resources have been developed by child health and early childhood professionals in collaboration with the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. This collection of resources has been developed in consultation with people from urban, regional and remote locations, some with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, some from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, and some who care for children with a disability.

The Get up and grow resources are designed to be used in a wide range of early childhood settings by families, staff and carers.

Four books have been developed in this series:

• Director/coordinator book
• Staff and carer book
• Cooking for children
• Family book.

Cooking for children is designed to provide a range of eating opportunities and to make healthy eating enjoyable. Cooking for children includes information on:

• the types of food suitable for children of different ages
• easy-to-use recipes with different ingredient options (to allow the use of available ingredients)
• choosing suitable recipes for children with allergies or intolerances
• kitchen and general food preparation hygiene
• ingredient quantities for six, 25 and 60 children's serves.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Contact details

To obtain copies of this publication contact:
National Mailing and Marketing
PO Box 7077
Canberra Mailing Centre
ACT 2610
Ph: (02) 6269 1080
Fax: (02) 6260 2770
Email: health@nationalmailing.com.au

Links

• View report: Get up & grow: healthy eating and physical activity for early childhood: cooking for children (PDF - 1.4 MB)
• View information: Get up & grow: healthy eating and physical activity for early childhood: cooking for children
• View information: Nutrition and healthy eating
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• View information: Nutrition and healthy eating get up & grow: healthy eating and physical activity for early childhood resources
• View website: Department of Health and Ageing

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