Menu planning

Part one

Preparation planning

Preparation Planning

• Check your menu against the Nutrition Checklist

• What is a ‘child serve’ of an essential food group

Preparation planning

• Please make sure you have the following items to hand:

• Two weeks of menus OR

• Use the sample menus found under the ‘support’tab

• Nutrition Checklist – you can print off and complete by hand, or complete online and print off

Preparation Planning

• Using your fortnightly menu, you will complete the Nutrition Checklist.

• Tick how often a food from the essential food groups appears on your menu.

• Before we start looking at recipes we have to determine that we are offering enough variety across two weeks.

What’s in a serve

Preparation Planning

Preparation Planning

Preparation Planning

Preparation Planning

Preparation Planning

Preparation Planning

Preparation Planning

• Checked your menu against the Nutrition Checklist

• Understand what child serves of the essential food groups are

• Next stage – menu planning

• But first – a quiz! Please complete the brief quiz under Part One.