nom! wins over Wheatbelt schools

In early September, we drove off to the Wheatbelt to run nom! – a healthy eating and cooking program with local schools. 

When we reached Cadoux Primary School and saw the entire student cohort, the following day we worked with year 4s and 7-10s in the Home Economics room at Wongan Hills District High School, and then finally we saw all the students in Calingiri Primary School on our last day of the trip.

At each school, time was spent time teaching the students about food groups, nutrients and their benefits, demonstrated useful skills like reading recipes and being safe in the kitchen. Students then broke up into small teams to each cook one of the several recipes on offer.

Recipes used ingredients from the five core food groups, and by the end of their nom! sessions the students shared a feast of tasty, healthy dishes and took home recipe booklets to keep cooking at home.  

The nom! sessions reached over 90 students and teachers and were a huge hit. When teachers were asked what they most liked about the Program, their enthusiastic responses said it all, “The great engagement from the presenters, and the way the content was delivered to a mixed Kindy-year 6 group. The recipes were great too!” – Teacher at Cadoux PS and “I would highly recommend this program to other schools as it champions healthy and easy meals and it packs a lot of information for the kids in simple ways.” – Teacher at Wongan Hills DHS.  

nom! is Foodbank WA’s way of supporting community groups to improve their knowledge, skills, and confidence to choose healthy foods. The nom! sessions were made possible by the generous support of Arc Infrastructure, who have been proud supporters of the program since 2015.  