1.Does your child have any intolerances or allergies?
Not to food but had some skin allergies when younger

2.Does your child have any religious or cultural beliefs to do with food?
Yes we are vegetarian

3.Does your child have any specific food preferences?
Yes - fruit, dairy, marmite, soy milk

4.Is there anything we need to know about your child?s appetite and eating habits that might assist us?
No. His appetite and eating habits are good

5.What types of foods do you want your child to eat often (several times daily)?
vegetables, higher proteins (eg. nuts, legumes, soy), fruits, cereals (cereal, bread, pasta, rice etc), milk (we use both cow and soy)

6.What types of foods do you avoid or not give your child to eat and why?
Processed foods with no nutritional value eg. lollies, chips

7.How often do you give your child treat foods? What types of foods are these?
He will have food he considers treats (although we don't promote them as such) every day. They can be things like sultanas, cheese, toast with marmite. He may get junk foods if we do (eg. if we go to a party, or we get a piece of cake at a cafe) but usually a less dense version (eg. he mightget a pikelet instead of cake).

8.Are you happy with your child?s diet? If not what concerns you most about it?
We are mostly happy with his diet. We used a dietician to write a plan for him when he went to solids.

9.Do you know what servings of each food type your child should have? Do you know what constitutes a ?serving??
We let him choose how much to eat but we offer him servings according to the advice of his dietician.


10.What do you feel affects your child?s food choices? (E.g. family eating habits, food advertising, other family/friends, etc?)
Family eating habits, seeing other people eating food he likes, seeing well marketed food for children

11. Does your child help choose foods for them to eat daily and/or do you cook with your child?
They choose some of their own meals (usually b'fast, lunch, snacks) and we choose dinner.

11. Would you like further information provided regarding children?s healthy eating?
No but thank you.