Question:
I like your idea of serving children family style but how do we regulate the amount of food children help themselves to so that the children do not over-eat and the snack budget remains intact?
The Chefs say:
What worked for our program as we made the switch to family style was to:
mount labels on menu holders placed in front of each serving dish.
each label had the amount or portion each child is alloted to take.
For the non-reading children, we drew the serving size amount.
(for example: 3 slices of pears, 2 cookies, 8 spoons of yoghurt etc)
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