Food Service – Nutrition Education Session, understanding the Nutritional Reference Values and Menu Planning.
Prepared by: Vanessa Wells
Presented by: Wellness & Lifestyles
Through increased nutritional training, you can improve your staffs’ nutritional education, resulting in better nutritional outcomes for your residents.
Is your site menu cycle needing an overview? Do your staff have the basic nutritional education to support healthy eating guidelines?
- What is healthy eating?
- What does it take to create or update your menu cycles?
- What are the (Nutrient Reference Values) NRV’s?
By updating your staff, especially food staff’s nutritional knowledge, you are supporting your residents’ nutritional status.
That is why Wellness & Lifestyles has created the food service nutrition education session, which helps to solve these issues and problems.
What this training can do for you…
- Improved knowledge of menu development.
- Introduction the NRV’s
- Ensure staff can effectively deliver nutritional support of healthy eating principles
Included in this training is…
- What is food?
- What are the nutrients in food?
- What are the NRV’s
- Menu planning
- Variety and balance in menu planning
- Healthy snack ideas
Who should use this training?
You should go through this training if you are involved in the preparation and/or provision of residents foods. In effect this would cover all staff members who have a responsibility to support healthy eating.
Food and the provision of nutritious food to residents is vital in ensuring the nutrient reference values are met of all residents.
Residents’ nutritional well being is essential to best resident health outcomes. However it is understood that even the most nutritious menu cycle or the most educated staff will not solve all the nutritional issues that arise. Food and the provision of food is complex.
This educational session is therefore important to ensure nutritional education is updated and supported, because this ultimately impacts on the nutritional status of the residents in whom we advocate best practice for.
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