03.Menus compared
Full results for all menus are shown in the table below.
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Nutrients per serve |
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Nutrients per serve |
| Meal |
Unhealthy diet |
Energy (kJ) |
Total fat (g) |
Sugars (g) |
Healthier diet |
Energy (kJ) |
Total fat (g) |
Sugars (g) |
| Breakfast |
Nestlé Milo Cereal (30 g) with 125 mL of reduced-fat milk |
770 |
3.5 |
16.3 |
Two wheat biscuits with two thirds of a cup
(167 mL) of reduced-fat milk |
789 |
3.3 |
10.0 |
| Two slices of high-fibre white toast with Ferrero Nutella (20 g) |
1145 |
7.9 |
12.6 |
One slice of high-fibre white toast with polyunsaturated spread (7 g) and jam (10 g) |
599 |
5.7 |
7.2 |
| Ribena Blackcurrant Fruit Drink (250 mL) |
625 |
|
35.3 |
Orange juice (250 mL) |
370 |
0.3 |
19.4 |
| Mid-morning snack |
Kellogg's Nutri-Grain cereal bar (30 g) |
514 |
2.3 |
11.0 |
Nestlé Ski D'Lite Apple and Pear cereal bar (24 g) |
363 |
0.6 |
6.2 |
| Uncle Toby's Roll-Ups raspberry flavour (15.6 g) |
240 |
0.5 |
4.7 |
Grapes (100 g) |
267 |
0.1 |
14.9 |
| Lunch |
Ham sandwich made with high-fibre white bread and polyunsaturated spread (14 g) |
1104 |
10.6 |
1.8 |
Ham sandwich made with high-fibre white bread and polyunsaturated spread (14 g) |
1104 |
10.6 |
1.8 |
| Arnott's Tiny Teddy Dippers Strawberry with Choc Chip Tiny Teddy (27 g) |
600 |
7.9 |
11.0 |
Fruit yoghurt (100 g) |
476 |
3.1 |
16.4 |
| Apple (medium) |
370 |
0.2 |
19.4 |
Apple (medium) |
370 |
0.2 |
19.4 |
| Ribena Blackcurrant Fruit Drink (330 mL) |
710 |
|
41.3 |
Water |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| After school |
Kraft Snack Abouts Cheese Spread with Chicken Flavoured Biscuits (28 g) |
501 |
8.2 |
1.0 |
Cheddar cheese (20 g) with carrot (30 g) and celery (30 g) sticks |
396 |
6.8 |
1.9 |
| Go Natural Berry Pieces in Yoghurt (30 g) |
546 |
5.6 |
17.4 |
Two Arnott's Vita-Weats with polyunsaturated spread (7 g) and Vegemite (5 g) |
400 |
5.8 |
0.3 |
| Dinner |
Steggles Chicken Nuggets (125 g) |
1330 |
20.3 |
1.3 |
Barbecued chicken breast, no skin (90 g) |
697 |
7.2 |
0 |
| McCain SuperFries (125 g) |
896 |
8.8 |
|
Mashed potato (100 g) with milk |
285 |
0.4 |
1.0 |
| Broccoli (100 g) |
138 |
0.3 |
0.4 |
Broccoli (100 g) |
138 |
0.3 |
0.4 |
| Pumpkin (50 g) |
94 |
0.2 |
2.4 |
Pumpkin (50 g) |
94 |
0.2 |
2.4 |
| Ice cream (two scoops) |
383 |
5.3 |
9.9 |
Banana with ice cream (one scoop) |
572 |
2.8 |
22.0 |
| The Natural Beverage Company Apple Naturally Flavoured Soft Drink (250 mL) |
499 |
0.0 |
29.0 |
Reduced-fat milk (250 mL) |
525 |
3.6 |
13.7 |
| Total |
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10465 |
81.6 |
214.8 |
|
7745 |
51 |
137 |
Table notes
A day’s food for an eight-year-old: the ‘unhealthy diet’ provides far too many kilojoules, meaning your child’s likely to put on weight. However, there’s more to food than kilojoules: milk, for example provides more kJ than the same amount of most sweetened fizzy drinks, but they lack the proteins, vitamins and minerals in milk.
Nutrition information in the table is from the packaging or food composition tables.