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50 2.2 Assessing Nutritional Intake

food or drink contributes to a serving from that An assessment of the intake in Figure 2.2.3
food group. Whether a mark of 1, 2 or ½ is put in would be shown as in Figure 2.2.4.
depends on the quantity consumed and the
appropriate portion size for the child’s age. Breakfast Breakfast cereal with milk
Mid-morning Blueberries
For example, the food diary could report snack Pure fruit juice diluted with water
that the child had eaten the food shown in Lunch
Figure 2.2.3. Apple slices
Afternoon Cup milk
For breakfast a ‘1’ would be marked in the snack
‘Bread, rice, potato, pasta, other starchy food’ Evening meal Mini meatballs
column for the bowl of breakfast cereal. Then a ‘1’ Pasta
in the ‘Milk, cheese and yogurt’ column for the cup Broccoli florets
of milk that would have been poured onto the Apple crumble with ice cream
breakfast cereal. If the child leaves half of the milk Pure fruit juice diluted with water
in the bowl then this could be reduced to a ‘½’. A ‘1’
in the ‘Fruit and vegetable’ column would be for the Crackers with Marmite and cheese
blueberries that were added to the cereal. cubes
Water to drink
The rest of the day’s intake would be assessed
and marked in the same way. Finally the ‘1’s and Fish and potato pie
‘½’s in each food group column would be added up Carrot and cucumber sticks
then recorded in the row for totals. A comparison Plain yogurt mixed with strawberries
can then be made of these figures to the daily and sugar
recommendations. Water

Figure 2.2.3 Example food intake recorded

Food groups Fluid
Drinks
All food and drinks Bread, rice, Fruit & veg Milk, Meat, fish, Foods
potato, cheese, eggs, nuts, high in
Breakfast: pasta, other yogurt pulses fat &/or
Breakfast cereal starchy food sugar
Milk on cereal
Blueberries 1
Pure fruit juice diluted with ½
water
Mid-morning snack: 1
Apple slices
Cup milk to drink 11
Lunch:
Mini meatballs 1 1
Pasta 1
Cauliflower florets
Apple crumble 1 1
Ice cream 1
Pure fruit juice diluted with 1 1
water 1
Mid-afternoon snack: 11
Crackers with Marmite and
cheese cubes 1
Water to drink 1

1
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