Nutrition matters for the early years - Health Promotion Agency
Nutrition matters for the early years - Health Promotion Agency
Nutrition matters for the early years - Health Promotion Agency
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These recommendations are <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> whole day. Children will be cared <strong>for</strong> over varying<br />
lengths of time and <strong>the</strong>re<strong>for</strong>e will be receiving different combinations of meals and<br />
snacks. The sample menu below shows an example of how you could meet <strong>the</strong><br />
recommendations over a full day.<br />
Sample menu <strong>for</strong> a full day<br />
Breakfast<br />
small cup of pure orange juice, well diluted<br />
cereal with milk<br />
Mid-morning<br />
Lunch<br />
1 /2 banana<br />
carrot and lentil soup with fingers of toast<br />
yogurt<br />
Mid-afternoon<br />
1 /2 pancake with butter or margarine<br />
small cup of milk<br />
Tea/dinner<br />
beef, carrot and turnip casserole served with boiled potato<br />
1 kiwi fruit<br />
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