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Got that feeling (ahem: stomach ache) when you need to manually calculate your recipe into 100 servings?
Menu choices that feel like groundhog day
Granted your service (probably) isn’t looking for MasterChef recipes, but your menu planner doesn’t need to be rigid or boring.
Manually creating bulk grocery orders
First step - try to multiply the recipe correctly. Second step - write a list and go to the shops. (Third step - collapse).
In the dark on recipe nutritional value
The required nutritional knowledge to correctly assess recipes is extensive (and that’s before food allergies are thrown into the mix).
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"feedAustralia translates the nutritional science of National Dietary Guidelines into straight forward real-time feedback giving early childhood education and care providers the information they need to make informed menu choices."
A sophisticated menu planning tool to help you exceed the childcare NQF.
feedAustralia’s menu planning software helps you create healthy and nutritional menus for children that adhere to Australian dietary guidelines and ACECQA’s National Quality Framework.
Know exactly what you want in your menu? Great! feedAustralia is completely customisable so you upload all your favourite recipes.
A few weeks in and lacking some inspo? We got you! feedAustralia is inbuilt with a nutritional database that includes more than 200 healthy recipes and more than 2,000 ingredients with established energy, macronutrient profiles and serve size recommendations. The recipes are easy to prepare and make use of readily available and seasonal ingredients.
feedAustralia provides a rather nifty feature - a real time assessment of your planned menus against:
- nutrient, energy and serving size data
- compliance per child based on food combinations
- Adherence with Australian Dietary Guidelines or child dietary needs (e.g. food allergies or food intolerances)
You will also be prompted with tips to help you reach food group recommendations and align with Australian Dietary Guidelines.
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Put down those kitchen scales and reusable shopping bags. feedAustralia will automatically generate a shopping list for you based on the exact quantities you need to make your required serving sizes.
You can then place your order online with your preferred provider and before you know it your groceries will be delivered straight to your door.
That’s saving you time, money and decreasing wastage by greater management of food portions (yes please - *adds to cart*).
Did you know that only 1 in 4 parents are aware of the recommended daily intake of vegetables for their child? And 1 in 6 preschoolers have sugar-sweetened drinks almost every day?
I think I feel a tooth ache coming on.
The highest quality research, evidence, systematic reviews and controlled trials show that improving the nutritional environment in daycare and preschool can improve learning behaviours.
That’s why feedAustralia enables you to communicate with parents on the meals their child/ren are consuming and the nutritional value of these meals. Parents can comment on the messages you share (and if the kids give the thumbs up, they may even ask for your recipes).
Whether you are running a single service or multiple services, feedAustralia’s dashboard provides you with the ability to readily track your progress of the nutritional rating of your menus over time.
The charts, graphs and results available within the dashboard can also be inputted directly into your service’s Quality Improvement Plan.
We are the pioneering ECEC software provider of nutritional education software - and we will continue to advocate for their inclusion in the sector.
Developed by global leading researchers
Through consultation with Healthy Australia (our not for profit arm), feedAustralia was developed by researchers and nutritionists from the University of Newcastle and Hunter New England Population Health and launched in 2016.
One platform to plan, order and communicate
feedAustralia’s fully integrated meal planning tool enables you to auto generate shopping lists on the fly so you can complete your online grocery order with your chosen store. Then once your delicious meals have been served, you can communicate this with parents.
Consistently fast and reliable support
On average all calls are answered within 24 seconds and issues are resolved within 30 minutes of being lodged. Our support team is humbled and motivated by our continued high client satisfaction rating of over 96% (measured by our online helpdesk).
Activate your feedAustralia subscription for as little as $20 per year
Not an existing user of HubHello? No worries - you can sign up for feedAustralia without needing to migrate to HubWorks (our childcare management software).
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Frequently asked questions.
Yes! You have complete creative freedom when using feedAustralia. You can create your own menus from scratch or edit any of the 200+ inbuilt recipes to create your own unique variation on them.
Absolutely - every recipe provided within feedAustralia adheres with Australian Dietary Guidelines. If you choose to create your own recipes or edit our existing recipes, you will also receive real time notifications if any of your recipes fall outside of Australia’s dietary guidelines.
Yes - In fact feedAustralia can assist your service in exceeding the childcare NQF for Quality area 2.1 (Health). According to the Q2 2022 NQF snapshot 2.1. (Health) is the 5th lowest ranked element of the 2018 childcare NQF, based on the proportion of services that do not meet this element.
All services and Family Day Care Educators currently accessing either HubWorks! or Educate via the HubHello platform get free access to feedAustralia.
feedAustralia is a paid program with a nominal fee to support the future growth and to support its users. Pricing for single service providers (Centre Based Day Care, Registered Care, Outside School Hours Care) is $1 per child/per year based on the approved number of children listed within the services Service Approval form. The minimum cost is $20 for those services that are approved for under 20 children or those services that are not yet approved but planning on doing so soon. FDC Educators are charged a flat rate of $20 per annum for full use of the program and there is no need for them to upload a service approval form. All costs quoted exclude GST.
Here’s some helpful resources we picked out for you.
Learn more about our childcare software features with these quick video and article tutorials.
Putting your menu on rotation
See how quick it is to set up a menu cycle that suits you - weekly, fortnightly, monthly. It’s completely up to you!
Create and assess your menu in real time
See how simple it is to create your own menu and receive an instant alert if it doesn’t meet Australia’s dietary guidelines.
Putting your menu on rotation
See how quick it is to set up a menu cycle that suits you - weekly, fortnightly, monthly. It’s completely up to you!
Create and assess your menu in real time
See how simple it is to create your own menu and receive an instant alert if it doesn’t meet Australia’s dietary guidelines.
Ready to have your (healthy) cake and eat it too?
Join over 1,700 of your peers and start baking with feedAustralia.
