1.Does your child have any intolerances or allergies?
None known

2.Does your child have any religious or cultural beliefs to do with food?
Nope

3.Does your child have any specific food preferences?
pasta, yogurt, cheese and fruit

4.Is there anything we need to know about your child?s appetite and eating habits that might assist us?
My DD will try pretty much any food - she is great with new foods

5.What types of foods do you want your child to eat often (several times daily)?
Fruit, vegetables, cereals (wholegrain breads, breakfast foods, pasta) throughout the day and at least twice to three times a day - milk and diary products (yogurt, cheese), protein (fish, chicken, red meat, egg, lentils etc)

6.What types of foods do you avoid or not give your child to eat and why?
Any thing deep fried or with a high sugar content

7.How often do you give your child treat foods? What types of foods are these?
A couple of times a week - usually it is a plain milk with one of those flavour straws

8.Are you happy with your child?s diet? If not what concerns you most about it?
I am pretty happy with it - we have managed to avoid introducing too many junk foods so she is quite happy without them

9.Do you know what servings of each food type your child should have? Do you know what constitutes a ?serving??
Yep - I was a gestational diabetic in my pg with DS and was diet controlled so I have managed to keep many of those good habbits up

10.What do you feel affects your child?s food choices? (E.g. family eating habits, food advertising, other family/friends, etc?)
Our DD eats what we eat so I guess she is limited by the kinds of foods we eat regularly. She is pretty adventurous with her eating (one of her favourite foods is black olives and feta from a greek salad) so she tries lots of different foods when she has the opportunity.

11. Does your child help choose foods for them to eat daily and/or do you cook with your child?
She sits at the kitchen bench while I cook and choses her own foods but I pretty much give her the same snacks every day and so she just asks for what she is used to.


We follow an eating plan that is pretty much the same from day to day

Breakfast - a piece of multigrain bread with vegemite, a small bowl of wheat pillow cereal and a piece of fruit

Morning Tea - one slice of cheese, a piece of fruit and a cruskit (or other wholegrain biscuit) with cottage cheese or vegemite (DD choses what she likes)

Lunch - 1 serve of carbohydrate (rice, pasta, potato, pumpkin) with 2 serves of vegetables and a small serve of protein for example - Brown lentil and bean curry with brown rice or bean and pasta salad dressed with lemon juice, glass of milk

Afternoon tea - 100g serve of yogurt, a piece of fruit and crumpet or fruit toast slice

Dinner - 1 serve carbohydrate only, 3 serves of vegetables (low gi ones) and one serve of protein

Hope that helps