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The City of Melbourne and Nutrition Australia worked with participating food outlets in the QV Urban Market to help improve the nutritional quality of their menus and to enable consumers to make better food choices.

This initiative included the introduction of a traffic light colour coded system to help consumers quickly and easily recognise what menu items have maximum, average, or poor nutritional value.

Green Light, Eat Right was the first pilot program of its kind in Australia, and introduced the traffic light colour coding system into the public food domain. The City of Melbourne’s long-term goal is that program be introduced into every food outlet in the Melbourne CBD, and then into the wider Melbourne community.

For more information visit http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/CommunityServices/Health/Pages/EatRight.aspx

Nutrition Australia Victoria Division, Jalna and Accelerate Elite Performance Program have joined forces to give young Victorian children the chance to get active and enjoy healthy foods through the Little Footy Tackers program. This is an exciting new initiative addressing both nutrition and physical activity in a fun and interactive way that engages children and aims to prevent negative long term health outcomes.

The program is set in a relaxed and enjoyable recreational setting for children to learn and play one of Australia’s most popular sports – football! This experience, for children aged three to five years, includes teaching basic fundamental skills such as decision-making and hand-eye coordination as well as introducing children to sportsmanship.

With the support of Nutrition Australia VIC, the children will also learn about healthy foods through the How to be Super – Touch and Taste workshop, sponsored by Jalna. The workshop aims to give kids the opportunity to explore new tastes and try more of the foods that are essential to their good health, like fruits, vegetables and dairy foods.

For more information visit www.littlefootytackers.com.au

Many people find it challenging to build up the motivation to cook nutritious and interesting meals when living alone.

To assist members of the community living alone with a mental illness, Nutrition Australia has worked with Mental Health Fellowship Victoria to produce the Deliciously Easy Cooking Program.

Deliciously Easy is a six week course which aims to give participants practice in cooking healthy meals. Each session runs for approximately three hours and has a maximum of eight participants. It is not a cooking demonstration, but an interactive session in which pairs prepare a two course meal and then enjoy it together.

In addition to learning new recipes and improving their nutrition knowledge, participants also have the opportunity to meet people from their local neighbourhood.

For more information visit www.mifellowship.org

Penrith Skills for Jobs Ltd trading as JobQuest was set up by a group of concerned citizens and volunteers in 1987 to provide basic community services for disadvantaged people in Western Sydney. Commenced as Community Youth Support Services (CYSS), JobQuest has expanded their services from supporting at risk youth to include support for the long term unemployed, people with disabilities, mature age job seekers, refugees and other highly disadvantaged target groups. Now operating in both Western Sydney and Newcastle, it is JobQuest's aim to help disadvantaged members of the community to be resourceful, independent and self-reliant, and to be connected and accepted by the general community and the public.

For more information visit www.jobquest.com.au

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