Long daycare cooks working in Brimbank are being encouraged to stir up the membership benefits of a free new network.
Whether you’re a chef, cook, manager or childcare staff member who prepares meals onsite at long local daycare services, the IPC Health Cooks Network could be a fruitful system to be part of.
According to IPC Health promotion officer Saira Karim, by joining the network, members can learn easy ways to adapt menus for allergens and fussy eaters, share knowledge and experiences with fellow cooks and dietary professionals, find effective ways to add variety to meal planning, and boost their nutritional expertise.
“[We] have delivered healthy eating programs to kindergartens and childcare centres for many years and identified that chefs needed support to assess menus via a needs assessment,” she said.
“The new network will support chefs create new and culturally friendly recipes and regularly update menus that provide a variety of deliciously nutritious meals to children.”
St Albans’ Acacia Children’s Centre’s chef Czarina Battershell said she’s grateful for the support she’s received since joining the network.
“It is so exciting that IPC Health has created a program where us cooks and chefs have the opportunity to be part of a network in which we can relate and not feel so alone, share our challenges and improve our knowledge,” Ms Battershell said.
Details: HPCS.Team@ipchealth.com.au
