Healthy Kids — One Recipe at a Time
- Play-based for early learners
- Curriculum-aligned for schools
- Loved by families
👶 Kindergarten | 🧸 Childcare | 🏫
Schools |
🎒 OSHC | 🏠 Families
- Healthy habits without lectures
- Build confidence, maths, reading & life skills
- Designed for families, schools & OSHC
RECIPE OF THE WEEK
Kids learn nutrition without realising it
What’s New
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growing good habits, and stirring up smiles in every family kitchen.
Kid-Friendly Recipes, Big Confidence Boosts
No stress, no mess (okay… maybe a little)! Step-by-step recipes designed just for kids – from rainbow wraps to fruity pancakes – that build independence and spark creativity.
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🌱Monthly Cooking & Growing Challenges
Each month brings a new food adventure! Kids grow herbs, explore seasonal veggies, or take on fun kitchen missions – helping them fall in love with healthy habits without even realizing it.
🎉A Place to Show Off and Shine
Finished a dish? Snap, share, and celebrate! Our safe, kid-friendly space lets young chefs proudly showcase their creations and get inspired by others around the world.
💡 Skills That Stick for Life
Behind every recipe is a lesson in teamwork, math, science, nutrition, and problem-solving. Who knew cooking could teach so much?
💞 Real Connection, One Meal at a Time
We make it easy for families to bond. From weekend breakfast parties to after-school snack making, Cooking Champs turns mealtime into meaningful moments together.
THE COOKING CHAMPS BOOK
Sneak Peek
“Actions to prevent childhood obesity need to be taken in multiple settings and incorporate a variety of approaches and involve a wide range of stakeholders. Sustained interventions are likely to be required at several levels - at an individual level, in schools and community settings to affect behavioural change.” *
“…interventions for childhood obesity prevention need to be part of existing plans and programs that aim to improve diets and physical activity.”*
Mission
To promote an understanding of nutrition and the positive and negativeaspects of the modern day food cycle in order to eliminate childhood obesity and malnutrition.
To introduce this knowledge during the early years when a child is most malleable and change is more readily internalized and sustained.
To develop healthy confident cooks who understand the importance of hygiene and nutrition and can relish the joy of cooking and sharing a meal with friends and family.
Learning Should Be
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Values
- Combine education, knowledge building and fun.
- Holistic and Integrated
- Age appropriate
- Child driven
- Safe
- Nurture family and a sense of community
Why?
Childhood obesity is rising rapidly worldwide
• According to World Health Organization and UNICEF, nearly 1 in 10 children aged 5–19 globally now live with obesity, with rates having almost tripled since 1990, making it one of the fastest-growing public health challenges of our time.
Combat ignorance
• To combat childhood ignorance regarding hygiene, nutrition, cooking skills and the food cycle.
Need for behavioral change
• Introducing The Cooking Champs program into elementary school is most likely to affect behavioral change.
Cost effective solution
• Investment in this type of preventative measure is the most cost effective approach but yields the greatest social and economic long term benefits.
The Cooking Champs package comprises
- *Our Programs & Delivery Formats
- One philosophy. Multiple ways to learn.
- Cooking Champs is designed to grow with children from early learning through primary years, supporting families, educators, and communities. Our programs are delivered in flexible formats to suit how and where children learn best.
What is cooking champs?
The Cooking Champs is a cross-curriculum and experiential learning program. It emphasizes the importance of engaging children through observation, discussion and inquiry and most importantly by making learning about food, hygiene and cooking fun.
“The essential thing is for the task to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality”*
The program is informed by best practice and is committed to continuous improvement.
- App-Only Program (Families)
- App + Play-Based Learning
- App + Lesson Plans (Schools)
- App + Activities (OSHC)
- Holiday Programs
- One Ecosystem, Many Pathways
Healthy children, who develop a critical approach to food, are critical consumers of food and are conscious of the food cycle within the web of life.
children — because the best learning happens together.
