Smart Sized Portions
Simple information to guide parents/carers of children aged 2 years and older on how to provide age-appropriate portion sizes for a healthy balanced diet. With pictorial portion guides.
What's Enough? Professional Guidelines can be accessed on the product page for further details on the development of portion guidance.
Advice requires some explanation from a Health Professional who has basic nutrition knowledge to enable correct implementation.
Smart Sized Portions supports weight management by providing simple information to guide parents/carers of children and young people on how to provide age-appropriate portion sizes for a healthy balanced diet.
The Target Group will be aware how to vary food choices and portion sizes to ensure:
- Healthy food and fluid choices
- Age appropriate food portion sizes
- Frequency of food consumed including snacks
- Ways to reduce salt, sugar and fat intake.
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Related Resources
Eating well for children aged 1-5s
- Classification: HP
- NDR-UK ref: 9404 V2