Learning about a balanced diet

You can print out your menus showing the food groups which make up a balanced diet.

You can print out the menus with the 8 tips for eating well, some of these menu print outs show the vitamin and mineral levels in the menu items.

You can also print out an allergen menu.

Particularly well suited to interactive white boards

One of the most interesting tools is a web page that interactively shows you how balanced your diet is based on your selections from your school's menus.

It lets you make selections for the whole week and then see what the average nutrient value of your week's selections is. Then you can look up what the vitamins and minerals do and see which dishes contain the highest per portion value for vitamins and minerals.