Healthy eating with Meals on WheelsTop Healthy eating is
important for healthy living. The Australian Guide to Healthy
Eating represents the foundation of healthy eating for older
Australians. It encourages you to enjoy a variety of foods every
day and shows the proportions of food from the different food
groups that are needed to ensure you include all the nutrients
necessary for good health. Food for the Day Your Meals on Wheels
delivered meal is prepared according to nutrition guidelines
that require the meal to provide one third of your nutritional
needs for the day. Your Meals on Wheels meal provides a good
start to healthy eating but you need to eat other foods as well.
As well as eating all of the meal usually provided by the Meals
on Wheels meal, you need to eat additional foods every day to
ensure you are eating enough. Breads, cereals, rice, pasta,
noodles Include at least an extra three to four serves of bread,
cereals or other grain foods. This could be a couple of thick
slices of bread in a sandw