Guest Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 A long, long time ago I had a wonderful display up in the pre-school all about the changes we were making to our snack time and the involvement of a wider range of food stuffs. Then I took it down, put it away "somewhere safe" and forgot all about it. Fast forward a few years and I decide it would be useful for a variety of reasons to put it up again, or at least the parts that cover portion size and give me inspiration about what we can offer. So I go to the safe place and it isn't there (the safe place isn't even there!). I go to my external hard drive, praying I have it on there as I recently broke every PC in my house except my streamlined and super fabby laptop. Of course it wasn't there either. I have since then spent many hours searching the internet for the download I am 80% sure I got from there, but I can't find it! Finally I decide to ask you clever people for the help (and I promise not to misplace it). What I need is a breakdown of snack items for children aged 2 - 5 years and the appropriate portion sizes of each item. In my head the displayed item was A4 and had clip art on it too to make it more interesting, but it is possible I sat and dragged clip art onto a plain text document. I thought I found it on the LTS (Scotland) site but if I did I don't know how. Can anyone help me at all because it is driving me mad? Heartfelt thank you's in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_13453 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Hmm, I'll have a troll about for you too - 'cos this sounds interesting. Was it the five-a-day people? we had a poster thingy I made years ago about what constituted a portion for the 5 a day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Just noticed my typo in the title too! Don't think it was the 5 a day people but I could be wrong. I am vaguely recalling it might have been around the time the PLA brought out a nutrition guide too but I can't find it on their website either. Thank you for your help - I really appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_13453 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 If you click on 'edit' full edit, you can change your typo if it bothers you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_13453 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Here's something - there's a fruit and a veg bit Portion sizes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Thanks. And thanks to whoever fixed my title. I do get stressy about that sort of stuff - you should see me when I am looking at the things I type for work, laminate and then spot typos on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_13453 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 and this looks good useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Try having a look around this site BRITISH NUTRITION FOUNDATION Lots of geat educational resources and maybe even the poster you were looking for. Peggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 All sounds very interesting!!! i have problems with my staff as they seam to forget that it is children we are feeding and they never seam to think they get enough. I hope to be able to get some information from some of your links!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_13453 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I'm often reminding children that it's a SNACK not their main meal of the day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 This is one of my motivations for looking for the thing again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_64 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 This is the advice issued by the Scottish Government. Nutritional Guidance for Early Years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Oh you are a star! Thank you so very much. I think this may have been exactly what I had before and then made a one page display poster from it. I promise to keep it safe and not loose it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_13453 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 This is the advice issued by the Scottish Government. Nutritional Guidance for Early Years OOOOOH MrsWeasley was looking for something like this - the sample menus - give her a shout someone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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