An organic school canteen
Posted by kathryn in Easier eating
A report from the Herald, about a school in Surry Hills with an organic canteen!
The inner-city school’s 250 pupils can choose from a lunch list that looks like any other healthy canteen menu, except that it is all organic. Even the snacks such as potato chips, popcorn, fruit bars and licorice straps are certified organic. Hewitt’s motto is “naughty, nutritious, healthy and delicious”.
The canteen serves sandwiches, pies, spaghetti bolognaise, hokkien noodles with vegetables, as well as wraps and salads. Fresh fruit and drinks are also available and it’s not just the kids who are enjoying the food. Teachers are buying their lunch from the canteen and parents are putting in requests for lunch packs, as well as fruit and vegetable boxes.
The canteen also composts its food waste and recycles as much of its rubbish as possible.
15 December, 2006
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I was very proud to see your interest in this article in the SMH. We are keen to get our new menu into as many schools as possible. For any further information or assistance in making your canteen a better place please contact Meg at THE GOODS organic on 9357 6690
Meg, thanks for dropping by my blog. As a nutritionist, I’m very interested in your school canteen idea – and well done to you and your business for starting this work.
I think that the Jamie Oliver campaign for better school dinners in the UK, combined with Stephanie Alexander’s work, down in Melbourne, with school vegie patches, is making people more aware of the food their children eat, both in school and at home.
Although there is, of course, still a long way to go.
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