Claudia, Maia and Lucy noodle pots by Isla Huffadine

News from Foods

The Year 11's are studying beliefs, attitudes and values around Food Security this term. To kick the term off we explored the idea of making a healthy, cheap savoury take-away. We had great fun working with new vegetable spiralizers and substituted baby marrow's (at a ridiculous $22/kg!) for carrots which were much tastier, in season and cheaper!

Emma and Hannah noodle pots — Image by: Isla Huffadine
Zarah and Molly show off their noodle pots — Image by: Isla Huffadine
Year 12 making noodle pots — Image by: Isla Huffadine
Meg spiralizing carrots — Image by: Isla Huffadine

The Year 13's are examining food advertising and the strategies that companies use to change our beliefs about food. This week we looked at the technique, "implying that cooking is hard" and pre-prepared meals. In class we contrasted easy mix pikelet mix versus the real thing.

Year 12 pikelets — Image by: Isla Huffadine
Christy and Lucy, healthy pikelet banana version — Image by: Isla Huffadine
Hannah takes a bite — Image by: Isla Huffadine

For Food Safety the Year 10's are learning to make a variety of meals using best practices, with the aims to learn more about avoiding contamination and at the end of the unit cook a meal using high risk foods such as rice and chicken. Last week we made chicken nachos, this week we experimented with two versions of breakfast pikelets.

Year 11s make chicken nachos — Image by: Isla Huffadine
Lucy and Josie give pikelets the thumbs up — Image by: Isla Huffadine
Year 11 Nachos — Image by: Isla Huffadine