Appendix Young Children's Food and Drink Study .

Thank you for agreeing to participate in this study about short nutrition questions of young children. The following set of short questions will take approximately 10 to 15 min to complete. The answers are confidential and will only be seen by the survey team. No one else will have access to your information. We are interested to learn more about your pre-school child's usual eating habits. I'm going to read you a list of different food and drinks. Please tell me how much of these foods and drinks [child] usually consumes per day or per week.

The first two questions are about fruit and vegetables:
Q1. How many servings of vegetables does [child's name] usually eat each day? (one serving = 1/2 cup cooked vegetables or 1 cup of salad vegetables)
1. ______ servings per day	2. ______ servings per week	3. Doesn't eat vegetables
4. Don't know	5. Refused
Q2. How many servings of fruit does [child's name] usually eat each day? (one serving = one medium piece or two small pieces of fruit or one cup of diced pieces)
1. ______ servings per day	2. ______ servings per week	3. Doesn't eat fruit
4. Don't know	5. Refused
The next few questions ask how often your child eats some foods:
Q3. How often does [child's name] eat red meat, such as beef or lamb? Include all steaks, chops, roasts, mince, stir fries and casseroles. Do not include pork or chicken.
Longer list (do not read out): Veal, offal (liver, kidney), mutton, game (buffalo, crocodile, goanna, goat, hare, kangaroo, rabbit, snake, venison, wild boar)
1. ______ times per day	2. ______ times per week	3. ______ times per month
4. Rarely/never	5. I don't know/can't say	6. Refused
Q4. How often does [child's name] eat meat products such as sausages, frankfurters, devon, ham, hamburgers or chicken nuggets?
Longer list (do not read out): Salami, bacon, meat pies, sausage rolls, luncheon meats, delicatessen meats, meat paste, liver paste, pate, saveloys, cheerios, hot dogs, rissoles, canned meats, smoked chicken, other smoked meats
1. ______ times per day	2. ______ times per week	3. ______ times per month
4. Rarely/never	5. I don't know/can't say	6. Refused
Q5. How often does [child's name] eat hot chips, French fries, wedges or fried potatoes?
1. ______ times per day	2. ______ times per week	3. ______ times per month
4. Rarely/never	5. I don't know/can't say	6. Refused
Q6. How often does [child's name] eat potato crisps or other salty snacks (such as Twisties or corn chips)?
1. ______ times per day	2. ______ times per week	3. ______ times per month
4. Rarely/never	5. I don't know/can't say	6. Refused
Q7. How often does [child's name] have meals or snacks such as burgers, pizza, chicken or chips from places like McDonalds, Hungry Jacks, Pizza Hut, KFC, Red Rooster or local take-away food places?
1. _______ times per day	2. ______ times per week	3. ______ times per month
4. Rarely/never	5. I don't know/can't say	6. Refused
Q8. How often does [child's name] have snack foods such as sweet or savoury biscuits, cakes, doughnuts or muesli bars?
1. ______ times per day	2. ______ times per week	3. ______ times per month
4. Rarely/never	5. I don't know/can't say	6. Refused
Q9. How often does [child's name] eat confectionery, such as lollies and chocolate?
1. ______ times per day	2. ______ times per week	3. ______ times per month
4. Rarely/never	5. I don't know/can't say	6. Refused
Q10. How often does [child's name] usually have something for breakfast?
1. Every day	2. ______ times per week	3. ______ times per month
4. Rarely/never	5. I don't know/can't say	6. Refused
Q11. How often does [child's name] eat dinner in front of the television?
1. Every day	2. ______ times per week	3. ______ times per month
4. Rarely/never	5. I don't know/can't say	6. Refused
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The next few questions are about the quantity of drinks your child usually consumes:
Q12. How many cups of milk does [child's name] usually drink in a day? Includes cow's milk, soya milk, milk on cereal, flavoured milks (one cup = 250 ml, a household tea cup)
1. ______ cups per day	2. ______ cups per week	3. ______ cups per month
4. Doesn't drink cow's milk or other milk	5. Don't know	6. Refused
Q13. What type of milk does [child's name] usually consume?
1. Whole milk (regular, full-cream)	2. Low – reduced fat milk	3. Skimmed milk
4. Evaporated or sweetened condensed	5. Soya milk, regular. Please specify _______________	6. Soya milk, reduced fat. Please specify_______________
7. None of the above	8. Don't know	9. Refused
Q14. How many cups of soft drink, cordials or sports drink, such as lemonade or Gatorade does [child's name] usually drink? (1 cup = 250 ml. One can of soft drink = 1 cups. One 500 ml bottle of Gatorade = 2 cups)
1. ______ cups per day	2. ______ cups per week	3. _______ cups per month
4. Doesn't drink soft drink	5. Don't know	6. Refused
Q15. How many cups of diet soft drink or diet cordial such as Diet Coke or Diet Sprite or Coke Zero does [child's name] usually drink? (1 cup = 250 ml. One can of soft drink = 1 cups. One 500 ml bottle of Gatorade = 2 cups)
1. _______ cups per day	2. ______ cups per week	3. ______ cups per month
4. Doesn't drink diet soft drink	5. Don't know	6. Refused
Q16. How many cups of fruit juice does [child's name] usually drink? (1 cup = 250 ml, a household tea cup or 1 large popper)
1. _______ cups per day	2. ______ cups per week	3. ______ cups per month
4. Doesn't drink juice	5. Don't know	6. Refused
Q17. How many cups of water does [child's name] usually drink in a day? (1 cup = 250 ml, a household tea cup, 1 average bottle of water = 2 cups)
1. ______ cups per day	2. ______ cups per week	3. ______ cups per month
4. Doesn't drink water	5. Don't know	6. Refused