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Fruit and Veg Month 2010

August is Fruit & Veg Month!

Eating enough serves of fruit and vegetables is essential for a healthy diet and growth and development of children and teenagers to maintain health into adulthood. Including fruit and vegetable everyday can help to prevent diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, obesity, and some cancers.

Get involved this year by participating in our healthy lunch competition, or celebrating within your school using our school activity ideas!

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Eat Well Tasmania is celebrating Fruit and Veg Month this August, and invites you to get involved with this year's
Healthy Lunch Competition!

Simply design a healthy lunch which includes TWO fruits and FIVE vegetables, then send in your menu and your proposed date to register!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A REGISTRATION FORM

The first 25 registrations will receive a Go for 2&5 Healthy Lunch packs

Prizes up for grabs for the most creative menu at:

your workplace

your community organisation OR

your individual group (for EWT members)

Prizes include:

3x $100 Woolworths vouchers

Light catering by Harrys Catering and Sush Online

$50 voucher from Youngs Vegie Shed
10x Healthy Food Fast Recipe Books

Registrations must be received no later than Tuesday 13th August 2010

Judging will occur first week of September

All entries will become the property of Eat Well Tasmania upon submission

A BIG thank you to our wonderful sponsors:

www.harrysfreshcuisine.com.au

Celebrating Fruit and Veg Month within your School

Celebrating fruit and Veg Month within your school is easy! Click on the links below for activity ideas and to see what resources we can provide to support you, then complete and send the resource order form to us to let us know what you are doing. We will do our best to send the resources out to you as soon as possible.

Whether you undertake a whole of school healthy fundraising activity or simply make a display on healthy eating in your school, we encourage you to get involved and help spread the Go for 2&5 message!

To download a list of school activity ideas that you can use within your class, click HERE

To download the Family Food Patch fruit and veg crown templates and instructions, click HERE

To download the Eat Well Tasmania Resource Order form, click HERE

Make sure you also remember to Move Well Eat Well! www.education.tas.gov.au/movewelleatwell

If you would like to discuss Fruit and Veg Month further, please contact Eat Well Tasmania on: (03) 6223 1266 or email eat@eatwelltas.org.au

Start Them Right, a Parent's Guide to Healthy Eating for Under Fives

The "Start Them Right booklet, a Parent's Guide to Healthy Eating for Under Fives" is based on up to date best practice. This booklet is for parents and carers to help in the feeding of young children.You can order bulk hard copies of the booklet at $3.50 each; a discount applies for 500 or more copies.

A highly practical booklet it covers issues such as:

Starting Solid Foods
Fluids
The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
Food ideas, such as What's for Breakfast and What's for Lunch
Dealing with fussy eating and food refusal
Nutrition Resources and getting help.

The booklet is highly visual, and full of practical information.

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