May 2013

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Borroloola Fruit Packs

Luzy Fakalumanava shows off one of the fruit packs at Malandari Store.

Product Profile :
Frozen vegetables

Some people think that frozen vegetables aren’t as good as using fresh ones. In fact, frozen vegetables are as good as fresh ones. Some of the good things about frozen vegetables are:t:

They help keep your body strong against infections

They can easily be added to meals, like stews, to make them healthier

They are easy to use  as they are often already chopped

They  last longer than fresh vegetables and are always there,  ready when you need them

In February, a team at the Borroloola Malandari store came up with an idea to make
up some small fruit packs to sell as a snack as a way to increase the sales of fruit. The packs included trays of cut up fruits, melon tubs and fruit kebabs. Before these were made, people could only buy whole pieces of fruit from the store. The prices of the fruits varied, depending on what was on offer. Cheaper fruits like watermelon were put into tubs on their own and sold for $1, while more expensive fruits like kiwi fruits and
strawberries were included in a variety pack. Store manager Lucy O’Shaughnessy said, “Customers are favouring the tubs of melon as they are cheap and easy to eat.”
This is a great way to get people eating more fruit!

Hermannsburg Healthy Snack Boxes

Glenda Lucas, who is the Maternal and Child Health Nurse at Western Aranda Health Aboriginal Corporation in Hermannsburg, worked with one of the stores in the community to make healthy snack boxes available for children. A list of appropriate foods was provided by the nutritionist who visited Hermannsburg. It includes things like boiled eggs, whole fruit, yoghurt, cheese sticks, dried fruit boxes, milk and water. Foods are chosen depending on the season, and then stocked into fun cardboard boxes and sold for $4.
They’re very popular with children and the actual box only costs about 50 cents. One supplier of the boxes is Colpac Packaging Creativity, www.colpac.co.uk/product.aspx?id=772&product=The%20Tucker%20Team%20Party%20Boxes

Easy recipe for your takeaway:
Meat and Vegetable Rissoles

Ingredients:
500g low fat mince 2 potatoes
2 carrots
2 onions
1 small capsicum
egg
tablespoons flour A little oil

Steps:

Peel and grate potatoes, carrots and onions, chop capsicum finely
Mix all ingredients (except the flour) in a bowl so they stick together
Take small handfuls of the meat and vegetables and roll into balls
Roll the balls in a little bit of flour and flatten them out a bit
Heat frypan, put small spoonful of oil in the bottom. Cook rissoles until brown on both sides

Recipe taken from “Deadly Tucker”