Vic Kids Eat Well

29/07/2026

Is your school finding creative ways to support health, wellbeing and sustainability through the kitchen garden?

We're delighted to see the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation's National Kitchen Garden Awards return for a third year.

The National Kitchen Garden Awards highlights the innovation, leadership and learning taking place through kitchen and garden activities.

The awards are open to all early childhood services and schools nationwide, including current Kitchen Garden Program members.

Applications are open until 7 August 2026.

Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eDzPB2X9

The National Kitchen Garden Awards are back for a third year, celebrating the creativity of kitchen gardens in schools and early childhood services across Australia.   Whether you’re growing native herbs in a small mobile garden or creating veggie-packed dishes in the kitchen, the awards recogn...

16/07/2026

🌱 Term 3 is the perfect time to grow new ideas!

Whether you're thinking about starting a kitchen garden, introducing cooking activities, creating a breakfast club or another food and nutrition initiative, we'd love to hear about it.

As part of the Vic Kids Eat Well Growing Healthy Environments Competition, we're celebrating ideas that help children and young people learn, play and be active.

🏆 Three creative and innovative entries will win:

✅ A $100 Kitchen Warehouse e-voucher
✅ 2 x Vic Kids Eat Well decals
✅ Kitchen Garden Program Seasonal Planner
✅ Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation child and adult-sized aprons

Share your idea for a food and nutrition project or activity your organisation could introduce over the next 12 months and you could be one of our winners.

Entries close 18 September 2026.

Find out more and enter today 👉 https://www.vickidseatwell.health.vic.gov.au/be-inspired/blog/vic-kids-eat-well-growing-healthy-environments-competition.html

Cancer Council Victoria
National Nutrition Foundation
Healthy Eating Advisory Service
Victorian Department of Health

27/05/2026

🌽✨The winner is…. the Elote Corn Shaker Cup! 💃

Congratulations DS Kids Hub Outside School Hours Care at Noble Park Primary School, supported by Monash Health.

Easy. Affordable. Feel-good food.

🍽️✨ Elote Corn Shaker Cup, serving 20 hungry kids!

Ingredients:

- 1 kg corn kernels
- 2 large capsicums
- 1 bunch fresh coriander
- 2 cups reduced fat Greek yoghurt
- 1 lime, juiced
- 1 tsp paprika
- Optional: feta cheese, crumbled

The beauty of this recipe is how adaptable it is – use produce from your veggie garden, or whatever you have on hand!

Steps:

• Chop capsicum and coriander
• Mix yoghurt, lemon juice and paprika
• Put prepared corn and feta in small bowls
• Spoon corn, capsicum, coriander, feta and yoghurt sauce into jar (or bowl)
• Shake it up (or stir in bowl)

Now eat and enjoy! 😋

👀 If you're part of Vic Kids Eat Well and have a recipe that kids at your school, sports club or Outside School Hours Care enjoy, we'd love to hear about it! Share it in the comments or tag Vic Kids Eat Well in your post.

🤸 Thank you to all the community organisations that entered the Vic Kids Eat Well x Little Food Festival Feel Good Food competition.

Read the full DS Kids Hub case study here: https://bit.ly/3Rw813g

Join Vic Kids Eat Well for free and get resources, support and rewards: https://bit.ly/4wMH23l

Cancer Council Victoria
Victorian Department of Health
National Nutrition Foundation
Healthy Eating Advisory Service

21/04/2026

Vic Kids Eat Well enjoyed all of Little Food Festival's foodie fun at Fed Square over the school holidays🥕🌽

⭐️ A huge shout out to DS Kids Hub, an Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) service at Noble Park Primary School, winners of the Vic Kids Eat Well x Little Food Festival “Feel Good Food” competition. This state-wide search uncovered Victoria’s favourite feel‑good food for kids. Their colourful winning dish, the Elote Corn Shaker Cup, wowed the crowd 🌽✨

👩‍🍳👦 On the day, a brilliant group of volunteer kids joined the Vic Kids Eat Well team and Fruit Nerd Thanh to prepare the nutritious and practical winning recipe live on stage 🙌

🌱 Next up, Vic Kids Eat Well hit the festival on tour with Costa Georgiadis Official celebrating the joy of colourful and nutritious fruit, veggies and gardens. We loved visiting National Nutrition Foundation, Veggies First_es, and A better choice! 🍎🥬🌻

💚 It was fantastic to see the public health and food sectors come together in front of thousands of children, young people and families.

🥗 From in‑season, veggie‑packed canteen meals 👉 to local produce for learning breaks 👉 or simple additions like cut fruit for half‑time sports snacks 🍊– the festival showcased practical ideas for nutritious food environments.

Schools, clubs and community organisations across Victoria can join Vic Kids Eat Well for free 👉 https://bit.ly/3rDJaee

Cancer Council Victoria
National Nutrition Foundation
Victorian Department of Health
Healthy Eating Advisory Service

13/04/2026

There are only two days to go until Australia’s iconic food festival for kids makes a tasty return to Fed Square, from 15–16 April! 🎉🍎

Catch us on stage on 15 April at 11.30 am as we showcase our winning Feel Good Food entry. 🍎🥗

See you there!

Little Food Festival
Cancer Council Victoria
Victorian Department of Health
Healthy Eating Advisory Service
National Nutrition Foundation

Our biggest and best stage program is here.

You can pull up a chair and watch cooking demonstrations from Carisma Poatoes & Simon Toohey, or find a spot to dance and play with Junkyard Beats. Learn about feel good food with Vic Kids Eat Well, how Melbourne Victory fuel up for game day with AIA and so much more.

Check out the program on the LFF website via the link in our bio.

07/04/2026

These school holidays, join us at Little Food Festival – Australia’s first and only food festival created just for kids! 🎉🍓

The Little Food Festival is on for two jam-packed days of foodie fun on 15 – 16 April.

We’re excited to take to the stage on 15 April, where we’ll celebrate and showcase our winning Feel Good Food entry. It's a veggie-packed, colourful and delicious snack kids will love. 🍎🥕

Come along and join the fun, we'd love to see you there!

Cancer Council Victoria
Victorian Department of Health
Healthy Eating Advisory Service
National Nutrition Foundation
Fed Square

01/04/2026

Looking for tasty and colourful breakfast ideas? TeamKids Cranbourne East Outside School Hours Care Service has added breakfast smoothies to their menu and the kids are loving it!

They’ve used their Vic Kids Eat Well activation voucher to purchase a blender, making it easy to whip up flavour-packed smoothies with the kids each morning. What a great way to include fun and food-focused activities!

Is your organisation looking for support to get started on Vic Kids Eat Well? Find out how we can support you here: http://bit.ly/4bWVb4p

Cancer Council Victoria
National Nutrition Foundation
Healthy Eating Advisory Service
Monash Health