News and Stories
Discover the latest news, insights, and events from our organisation. From important announcements to community highlights, this is where you can stay connected with everything happening now and what’s coming next.
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New Resource: The Mystery of School Island
Resource The Mystery of School Island is a free, interactive online game developed by the National Allergy Council to help school-aged children learn about food allergies, anaphylaxis and how to…
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Steps to Eating: Supporting Children to Explore New Foods
Resource Children often need multiple opportunities to see, interact with and explore a food before they are ready to eat it.When children are learning to eat and learning to eat…
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War on Waste: School Food
Resource We encourage school food services to continually work towards being more environmentally friendly. Read more about sustainability information and resources on our flyer: School Food Matters Sustainability Flyer Wipe…
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SmartFood: Tips to GREEN up the menu
Resource The Tips to GREEN Up Your Menu guide provides practical inspiration for filling school food-service menus with tasty and appealing GREEN choices. It includes a wide range of ideas…
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SmartFood Program: Green up your AMBER items
Resource The GREEN-ing Up AMBER Items guide demonstrates how some commercial AMBER products can become part of a GREEN meal by adding at least three different fruits or vegetables. Using…
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SmartFood Program: Choose the GREEN choice
Resource The Choose the GREEN Choice guide shows how the nutritional classification of a menu item can change depending on its ingredients, nutritional content and serving size. Using familiar foods…
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The SmartFood Ingredient Swap Guide
Resource The SmartFood Ingredient Swaps guide provides simple, practical ways to make popular school menu items healthier. It includes suggested swaps for pizzas, Mexican dishes, pasta, stir-fries, curries, casseroles, soups…
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SmartFood Program: Traffic Light System
Resource The SmartFood Program uses a simple traffic-light system to help schools plan healthier food-service menus. Foods and drinks are grouped into three categories: GREEN, AMBER and RED. The system…
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Lil Tuckers: Green Menu Inspiration
Resource Lil Tuckers (who cater for a number of schools in southern Tasmania) have kindly shared some GREEN menu inspiration. Their snack boxes and Mexican burrito bowls have proven to…