Guides: Education Support and Childcare: Promote Healthy Eating & Food Safety

eBooks & eVideos

Dealing with Eating Disorders (2020) This book explores what eating disorders are like, how they affect people's lives, and today's best treatment options.
Eating Disorders (2018) This encyclopedia offers a variety of resources for readers interested in learning more about eating disorders.
Food safety (2016) The book explains symptoms, causes and labelling information in relation to food allergies, additives and intolerances.

That sugar film This is one man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’.

Websites - Promote healthy eating

Australian Guide to Health Eating The Australian guide to healthy eating is a food selection guide which visually represents the proportion of the five food groups recommended for consumption each day.
Cooking with Children and Teenagers Raisingchildren.net.au
Crunch&Sip Participating in a daily Crunch&Sip break provides an opportunity for children to drink water and eat an extra serve of vegetables or fruit to support good health and to help with learning and concentration in the classroom.
Food Bank - Nom! Great dishes can be made by anyone – not just Michelin Star chefs. Bringing nutrition education and cooking programs to Western Australia – it’s something we’ve been doing for a little while now.
Get up and grow - Director/coordinator handbook This Get Up & Grow booklet provides advice on early childhood healthy eating and physical activity, how to develop nutrition and physical activity policies and ways to support and encourage staff, carers and families.
Get up and grow - Staff and carer handbook This Get Up & Grow booklet is for child health and early childhood professionals. It provides advice about child nutrition and physical activity.
Get up and grow booklet - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander handbook This Get Up & Grow booklet is for people who care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. It provides advice on childhood nutrition and physical activity.
Health eating for children Health Direct
Healthy Eating Advisory Service Eating habits are instilled from a young age, so by providing nutritious foods and drinks, you can help children establish positive eating behaviours early.
Healthy Lunch Box Cancer Council
Hydration Tips for Children Health Direct
National Lunch Box Week - Nutrition Australia Lunchbox inspiration for parents, carers and schools
Nutrition - School age to adolescence Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne
Nutrition Australia Inspiring healthy eating
Phenomenom! - ABC Education This collection contains curriculum-aligned episodes, lesson plans and activities, in the name of discovering things that food can do.
Superhero Foods HQ by Food Bank WA
WASPHA - Food and Nutrition Lots of useful resources to promote health eating.

Websites - Allergies

Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia (A&AA) is a charitable, not-for-profit organisation. Our purpose is to listen, guide and educate Australians living with allergic disease.
Allergy Aware The Allergy Aware website aims to provide people with information and practical resources to manage severe allergies in the school and children’s education and care settings.
Food allergens Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia
Food allergies in children Health Direct
Food allergies in schools Western Australia. Department of Education.
Food allergy Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia
Introduction to food allergy and intolerance Healthy Eating Advisory Service

Articles

What's on the Menu? Colour coding menu choices 'green' or 'amber' can help students and parents make informed selections
Young kids Failing to get adequate nutrition in early childcare centres, research suggests Research suggests young children are going hungry in early childhood centres, being given food that doesn't meet dietary standards, and childcare workers are giving kids their own food.
Healthy Food Guide Western Australia. Department of Education

Books

Food allergy (2013) This book will help you understand what a food allergy is and how it affects people.
Food safety (2016) This book is a comprehensive guide featuring food safety tips on handling, hygiene and contamination.
Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child (2014) 9th Edition, covers contemporary health, safety, and nutrition needs of infant through school-age children.
Healthy cooking for children : 52 brilliant ideas to dump the junk (2006) "With these 52 ideas you can help your kids to ditch the junk and make healthy food family fun."
Kids food health 3 (2001) In this book the authors aim to guide parents in establishing healthy eating habits that their children will carry into adulthood
Safety, Nutrition and Health in Early Education (2016) This book emphasizes healthy development, including environmental health and safety, active supervision.

Junior Fiction

Allergy Possible! This picture book spreads awareness about what it's like to be a child living with life-threatening anaphylaxis and the story is very relatable for children who have life-threatening allergies.
Ben & Izzy's story : living with anaphylaxis Using the children's real first-person testimonies creates an intimate and direct tone that help us to empathise with the people's differences.
My healthy tummy Children's picture book which encourages early food and nutrition literacy skills.
Pete the peanut Each of us is at different stages and plays various roles along the allergy journey, a journey nobody processes in precisely the same way.
When we are hungry Children's picture book which encourages early food and nutrition literacy skills.