Healthy Kids News & Advice

Canteen Volunteers

Calling all canteen volunteers!

26/02/2014 Canteen Advice

Volunteers are a canteen's greatest asset. With plenty of volunteers, your canteen can run efficiently and smoothly while allowing for a healthy profit. But finding and keeping volunteers can
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A hub of girls and Crunch&Sip fruit

A hub of fruitful eating

18/02/2014 Crunch&Sip, Healthy Eating

For five years Harvest Hub has supplied “Great food that doesn’t cost the earth” directly from Sydney Basin producers to people who are seeking alternative ways of buying their
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Eat your vegetables!

18/02/2014 Crunch&Sip, Healthy Eating, Help for Parents

It’s an all too familiar phrase, “Eat your vegetables!” Whether it's imprinted in your memory from your own childhood, or whether you're the one now reciting it to your
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Herb chicken sticks – our canteen special

18/02/2014 Canteen Advice, Canteen recipes, GREEN, Healthy Eating, Hot meals, Party food ideas, Recipes

Everyday (NSW) GREEN (ACT) Healthy Kids runs a canteen at Roseville College. We use this opportunity to test the ideas we share with our member canteens. We have limited equipment (no oven),
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Herb and garlic lemon chicken kebab

18/02/2014 Canteen recipes, Everyday, GREEN, Party food ideas, Recipes

Everyday (NSW) GREEN (ACT) Healthy Kids made this chicken kebab recipe (also known as herb chicken sticks) at our HKA run canteen and sold them with great success. Read about it
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What I’ve learnt about packing a lunchbox

13/02/2014 Help for Parents, Lunchbox

By Jillian Lewis In the grand scheme of things, I haven't been packing a lunchbox for very long. My oldest child is in year 3, so I'm only into my
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Is it safe to eat if I cut off mould?

13/02/2014 Help for Parents

By Clare Knight For me it’s the jar of pesto that I opened a while back and now I want to use it as an easy way to add flavour
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Crunch&Sip healthy snack ideas

11/02/2014 Crunch&Sip, Healthy Eating, Help for Parents, Lunchbox, Snacks

Does your school do Crunch&Sip? If yes, you know you have to pack a healthy fruit or vegetable snack for your child to eat each day. It’s easy to
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Valentine’s Day fun food ideas

07/02/2014 A bit of fun, Canteen Advice, Canteen recipes, Healthy Eating, Help for Parents, Party food ideas, Recipes, Snacks, Uncategorized

Valentine's Day is the perfect opportunity to boost profits in the canteen with some fun, healthy snacks kids will love. It provides an opportunity to feature some quick and
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How is your canteen used? Do a survey!

04/02/2014 Canteen Advice, Canteen Corner

Is your canteen serving its community as best it can? If you're unsure of what the students and parents at your school want out of the canteen, it's a
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