Calories on the menu

Putting Calories on menus is an idea that the coalition party are keen to take forward. As caterers you can easily calculate calories to go on menus yourselves. This course gives you all the information that you need to calculate calories accurately. It will demystify any science linked to calculating calories and most important it will give you the confidence to put calories on your own menus.

This half-day course is led by Susan Church and Sue Lloyd who run a business that trains nutritionists and dietitians to do accurate nutrition calculations. Both Di and Sue also have a national reputation in nutrition analysis and have worked closely with the Food Standards Agency on the calories on menus project. To sign up please select the day for which you would like to register. More information about the course and programme is below:

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Cost per delegate: The special price for this pilot course is £10 to be paid on the day

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This event is designed to update and improve the knowledge and skills of caterers and food providers in recipe analysis. In particular, it is designed to provide a learning opportunity for caterers to understand when it’s practical to calculate calories; and when the calculations are likely to be complex and it would be worth bringing in someone with additional expertise in recipe analysis to provide support.

Target audience: Caterers and food providers

Aim: To enable caterers and food providers who declare calories (energy) on menus to calculate calories (energy) accurately

Objectives:

To learn the foundations of calculating calories (energy) on menu items
1. Terminology and definitions
Understand how to set up a standard recipe for analysis
Following the ‘Guide to Recipe Analysis’ 8 Steps
To learn how to calculate the calories(energy) in sample recipes
To undertake calorie (energy) calculation on several sample recipes
To learn how food preparation and processing affects calorie content of food (incl. raw vs. cooked)
To understand the caterers responsibilities when undertaking calorie analysis
Understand the range of options available for undertaking nutritional analysis e.g. software that is available

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course you will know

Where calories in food come from
How to calculate calories (energy) in food
The importance of accurate supplier specifications
Where errors may occur and the limitations of the data generated
What nutritional analysis software programme are available that can calculate calorie values

The programme for each day

Cost per delegate: The special price for this pilot course is £10 to be paid on the day