Term 4 -Week 7 Artichoke!

Have you tried glove artichoke? Well, we are very lucky to have it in our school garden. The plant is a type of thistle and its flour buds are edible part.
When it was boiled  the green colour of young petal turned into a bright purple. It was then broken into each pieces and served with Aioli (garlic mayonnaise). Most of student had tried it first time although they had seen the plant has been grown in the garden for a few years.

Term 4- Week 5 Banana bread

We kept all left over bananas in freezer after the smoothie session to make a big batch of banana bread. We also added leftover poppy seed and sesame seed to the bread.
It turned out well and student enjoyed it with colourful fruit and edible flour salad for a change from our usual savory menu. Although the beef and veggie stir fry was still popular for meaty-savory lovers.

5 A Day Challenge- Carrot Pita and Pumpkin soup making

This is day two, with the other half of the pupils in the school. They brought a carrot each for "crunchy carrot pita". Pumpkins and organic veggie stock were donated by the local shops for beautiful pumpkin soup:-)

cheeky carrot smiles:-)

busy grating carrots

stuffing full of goodness

carrot, orange, seeds and coriander

watch out your fingers!

new faces in our school

creamy soup was so popular!

5 + A Day Challenge- sushi and smoothie making

Half of our school pupils took part in the healthy lunch making on the 4th of November.
We made hand-rolled veggie sushi and banana smoothies. It was such a colourful, cheerful and of course super healthy lunch session! Well done everyone:-)

smiles of proud micro-green growers

pick your own fillings

colourful edible flower sushi!

love bananas!

busy production lines

yummm--smooothie

every veggies and fruits count!

5+ A Day Challenge- veggie sculpting

Our School Challenge started with some art activities this week. Look how many budding artists we have in our school and how they can create colourful sculptures full of imagination! Well done to you all:-)

 The winners with their creations:-)

Term 4, Week 2 - Empanada fiesta!

We are very lucky to have many international families to share special food with us. Many of Raumati South students tried Argentinian Empanada first time today and they were so popular..!!!

Two kinds of fillings- corn in creamy sauce and beef mince. They are oven bake and pastry is home made:-)

Beautiful lettuce and flower from the garden

Another dish was beef and veggie stir fry. An electric wok is kindly donated from a school family:-)

Term 4- week 1 "Live music!"

We had a lovely addition this week at Friday lunch time. A Ukulele group provided us a nice music after their lesson in a hall:-).

Nice to have some parents to join in!

Live!

All goodies for lasange

Fresh produce of the week

5 + A Day Challenge!

We have registered for the 5 + A Day school challenge 2014!
http://www.5aday.co.nz/5plus-a-day/the-5plus-a-day-school-challenge.aspx
 Here are some preparations for the "Healthy Lunch Week" in week 3

Growing "micro greens" for the sushi fillings

Keep it moist

Using different kinds of containers to compare

Term 3- Week 9 Beautiful salad & wash ups

Salad can be dressed up with few petals and leafy lettuces from our garden! Thanks to the artistic parent to create this on the plate:-). Silver beet and spinach from the garden also became yummy filo parcels which is getting popular among the students.

Term 3 - week 8 Washing up!

Hello, we've introduced a new system this week. Students can help us with rinsing their plate!! Some of them were hesitating to get their hands wet at first, and some were totally keen.  It worked really well:-).
It's nice to share the cleaning job as well as the meal.  Thanks everyone! The parent helps could go home much earlier than usual..!

Enjoying sushi with parent helps:-)

Frittata and Sushi

We can do it!

Term 3 - Winter is over (nearly) !!

Hello everyone, thanks you for all the support while the main canteen coordinator is away. The last four lunches went well and now it's time to order for the second half of this term. Please see the menu on the school website and bring the order slip to the office if you haven't ordered yet!

The last Friday we cooked "vegetable lasagna" and "beef and veggie stir fry on rice". We've served them before but not for a while. I guess people all remembered the yummy smell of the melting cheese and garlic&soy from the kitchen:-).

Thanks to Mrs. Diane again for the beautiful supply of broccoli from the school garden. It went into the both menus. (The picture was accidentally deleted unfortunately..!)

Term 2- Week 8 The last canteen of the term!

We've made nearly 700 nutritious meals in term 2. The students have been encouraged to eat everything on their plate and it has been getting better every week. Thank you so much for your support. See you next term!

Term 3- week 5 "Baked potato & Pumpkin soup"

 a hard work- cutting pumpkins

 Baked potato was newly introduced this week. It is topped with beef mince, bean sauce and fresh sweet corn from our school garden.