Dear Parents,
We understand your concern of wanting to get your child off to a healthy start with good eating habits. We also want the children at our Centre to grow big, strong and healthy. Hence, we have sought help from the Dietitians of Changi General Hospital to assess our 4-week-cycle food menu. The standard against which our menu was evaluated is based on the “Guide to Healthy Meals in Child Care Centre, by the Health Promotion Board of Singapore”.
After the evaluation, the Dietitians commended that our food menu is “…very comprehensive and well thought of…”. However, in order to ensure that our food menu is balanced and the meals served meet the nutritional requirement of the children, we have worked closely with the Dietitians to improve our food menu as follows :
*Introduce wholemeal bread to the children.
*Increase the serving of vegetables for the meals.
*Use unsaturated cooking oil and margarine (brands like knife peanut oil /Flora /Meadowlea)
*Remove some of the unhealthy foods such as doughnuts
*Replace the Kaya bread on some days with other varieties.
The next time when you are in our Centre, please feel free to view our new 4-week-cycle food menu, and/or take a look at the kind of foods served to your child ! Truly yours.
