How to use FoodChecker

How to:

• Use FoodChecker
• Assess a long day care menu
• Assess a school canteen menu
• Assess a retail outlet menu, catering menu or vending machine
• Assess recipes
• Search and assess products
• Make changes and reassess

FoodChecker helps you provide healthier foods and drinks in your organisation.

You can assess menus, vending machines, products and recipes according to government guidelines for:

• long day care services *
• schools ^
• retail food outlets, vending machines and catering in:
• hospitals and health services ^%
• sport and recreation centres *
• universities *
• workplaces *
• and more *
  
  

With FoodChecker, you can:

• get immediate feedback on menus, vending machines, products and recipes
• find healthier products
• save your favourite recipes and products
• print your healthy menus and shopping lists

You can use FoodChecker anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected device!

FoodChecker is brought to you by the Healthy Eating Advisory Service, which is delivered by National Nutrition Foundation and supported by the Victorian Government.

Adaptations to Queensland and South Australian assessments are funded by Health and Wellbeing Queensland and Wellbeing SA. These adaptations are made with the permission of the State of Victoria, acting through the Department of Health.

Using FoodChecker in your organisation

Long day care

Use FoodChecker to assess and plan healthy menus for 0-5 year old children, according to the Victorian Menu planning guidelines for long day care.

You can review one week or one day of your menu at a time.

If your one week menu meets the Victorian Menu planning guidelines for long day care you can use your FoodChecker report as evidence when working towards:

• Quality Area 2.1.3 (Healthy Lifestyle) of the National Quality Standard
• the Education and Care Services National Law and Regulations
• the Healthy Eating and Oral Health Benchmarks of the Achievement Program
• Smiles 4 Miles award.

Schools

Use FoodChecker to assess school canteen menus against the:

• Canteens, Healthy Eating and Other Food Services Policy (Vic)
• The Right Bite Food and Drinks Standards (SA)
• WA School Food and Drink Criteria developed by the WA Department of Health.

You can also assess individual recipes and products, and find healthier GREEN and AMBER products that can be supplied in schools.

Retail food outlets, vending machines and catering

Use FoodChecker to assess food outlet and catering menus, vending machines according to:

You can use FoodChecker to find out if a product is classified GREEN, AMBER or RED according to the:

• Healthy Choices guidelines (Vic)
• A Better Choice – Healthy Food and Drink Supply Strategy for Queensland Health Facilities
• SA Health Healthy Food and Drink Policy

You can also assess individual recipes and products, and find healthier GREEN and AMBER products.

Vic only: If your menu or vending machine meets the Healthy Choices guidelines, you can use your FoodChecker report as evidence when working towards the Achievement Program’s Healthy Eating benchmark.

* Victoria only

^% Victoria, Queensland and South Australia

^ Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia 

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