About Eat Well

Eat Well Tasmania has formed partnerships with many organisations to promote healthy eating.

By encouraging healthy eating, especially of Tasmanian products, the local food industry is supported and consumers are encouraged to make informed eating choices.

Examples of Eat Well Tasmanian Partnerships

Some examples of Eat Well Tasmania partnership projects include:

Cooking for One or Two is a State-wide project with Legacy Hobart. The project aims to promote a healthy lifestyle by enhancing the nutrition, food preparation and food safety skills of persons living on their own or with a partner. The project actively involves participants in cooking workshops.

Wicked Vegies was a partnership project implemented at Lauderdale Primary School. The overall goal of the Wicked Vegies project was to improve the nutritional intake of primary school students by promoting increased consumption of vegetables and fruit so as to promote good health and prevent diet-related health problems. Wicked Vegies involved students investigating, designing and producing a snack that was fast and easy to prepare, using locally produced vegetables and fruit as a main ingredient. Students showcased their Wicked Vegie snacks at a Celebration Day at the school towards the end of 2004. The snack ideas developed by the students were documented into a Wicked Vegies Snack Ideas Book.

Plan to Eat Well resulted in the development of a wall planner that aimed to provide organisations that cater to the needs of older Tasmanians with a useful resource that offered practical ideas for promoting health and wellbeing (and particularly healthy eating), while encouraging socialisation and involvement in related community activities. For further information take a look at the Plan to Eat Well Report.

All About Eating Well was a project that sought to enhance nutrition promotion knowledge and skills of Cancer Council Tasmania staff and volunteers, and health and community workers on King Island. The project involved three practical workshops held in different parts of the State during 2004, that covered nutrition, nutrition promotion and food ideas. For further information take a look at the project report.

There's no beatin' healthy eatin' was a project with Gagebrook Community Centre that aimed:

• To identify community perceptions about healthy eating.
• To identify community nutrition needs using an alternative model.
• To enable the community's craft group to participate in a creative activity.
• To create a healthy eating banner that can be hung up in the community centre and used at community events.

For further information take a look at the project report.

Eating Matters

For more information about Eat Well Tasmania partnership projects take a look at our latest newsletter Eating Matters.

To enter into a partnership with Eat Well Tasmania contact us and complete the Partnership Proposal.