A new Foodies project

Life at present is a bit manic. Man I can't believe that we are in mid May, study, work and community foodies are over consuming my life.

Reality says I have 10 weeks before my studies are complete but that is just a bit laughable. I have 6 units still to pay for and complete and this includes 80 hours of field, which is why I started recording my activity early. With nine months of study completed I'm seriously thinking what the hell have I learnt from this and by God I'm hoping that the next few units are going to give me new hope because if I have thrown away all my money on a certificate that makes me nothing more than a qualified, glorified kitchen hand it will be a case of hell hath no fury like a Scorpio scorned.

Frankly, Community Foodies has taught me all the things I thought I would be learning at TAFE and it gives the added bonus of the opportunity of sharing that knowledge with others. With the Easyfeast cookbook launch complete and all of those involved taking a temporary hiatus from the project Suzi and I started a new project last week. Prior to the next stage of new recipe development for the Easyfeast project we are running a group at Northfield Primary School teaching a small group of parents and their kids simple meals that they can cook together at home while also educating the kids with simple nutrition messages. Here's a question for you cyber readers, it's recommended we eat 5 serves of vegetables each day but putting serving sizes aside for a moment How many different types do you eat each week because how do we expect kids to appreciate new foods if they eat the same things constantly.

We had eight kids in that group on Thursday afternoon and by the time we had cooked minestrone soup and fried rice and they had all tucked in each of them had eaten 11 vegetables without even trying.