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Food groups Fluid
Drinks
All food and drinks Bread, rice, Fruit & veg Milk, Meat, fish, Foods
potato, cheese, eggs, nuts, high in 1
Evening meal: pasta, other yogurt pulses fat &/or 2
Fish and potato pie starchy food sugar 7
Carrot and cucumber sticks 6–8 cups
Plain yogurt mixed with 11
strawberries and sugar 1
Water to drink 1
Extra drinks of water 11
TOTALS :
RECOMMENDED : 4 6 3½ 25
3 2–3 Some
3–5 5
At each At each high-fat
meal and meal and foods
some snacks some snacks

Figure 2.2.4 Completed assessment of example intake

All food and drinks Bread, rice, Food groups Meat, fish, Foods Fluid
potato, Fruit & veg Milk, cheese, eggs, nuts, high in Drinks
Breakfast: pasta, other pulses fat &/or
Cornflakes and milk starchy food yogurt sugar 1
Orange Squash to drink ½ 1
1 1 1
At nursery: 11 1
Pieces fruit and milk to drink 1 1 3
Lunch: 1
Jam sandwich and cake 1 1 1 2
Milk to drink 2 1
Afternoon:
1 packet Wotsits 11
Carton of fruit juice drink 1
Evening meal:
Fish fingers and chips
Chocolate biscuit
Milk to drink
Before bed:
Full bottle of milk

TOTALS : 3 1 5½ 1 87
RECOMMENDED : 3–5 5 3 2–3 Some 6–8 cups
At each meal At each
and some meal and high-fat
snacks some snacks foods

Figure 2.2.5 Ellie’s food and drinks in one day