CANTEEN
Canteen Aims
Frenchs Forest School Canteen aims to provide students with fresh healthy food at reasonable prices. Whilst providing this service to our school families, we also strive to improve our students’ eating habits. Buying food from the Canteen gives younger children the opportunity to start using money in a safe controlled environment. As well the Canteen can be a learning resource to support our teaching staff.
Green & Amber, Red Food Strategy
Our school Canteen follows the NSW Healthy School Canteen Strategy which divides food into three categories:
Green – Healthy
Cereal foods, breads, vegetables, fruit, reduced-fat dairy, lean meat, fish, water, juice, milk
Amber – Select Carefully
Full fat dairy, processed meats, spreads, snack food bars, cakes, muffins, ice blocks etc
Red – Occasional
Treats such as lollies, sweet biscuits and high fat, high salt savoury snack foods
Our Canteen menu includes a high proportion of green items and we are continually promoting healthy eating habits with ongoing activities that encourage our students to buy green items.
As Amber foods have some nutritional value and moderate levels of fat, sugar and salt these make up the rest of the menu.
