Canteen News

FOOD SAFETY 

This week started with Mrs. Simkin attending a Food Safety Supervisor course to keep up skilled in the ever changing requirements of the food industry. Up leveling from a Food Handler to a Food Safety Supervisor give us the opportunity to ensure a higher level of onsite protection for food safety and gives consumers piece of mind when ordering from our school canteen.

With food safety in mind we would like to remind parents to have a chat to their children about keeping food in their lunch boxes that they may not finish for lunch or morning tea. This becomes an issue when kids save their chicken nuggets for later, it cannot be stressed enough if they can't eat it within 2 hours, it is no longer safe to consume. Bacteria will grow quickly on food items in optimal temperatures of 5 to 60 degrees and school lunch boxes are perfect.

VOLUNTEERS

We would like to continue welcoming our parents/guardians/caregivers into the canteen to assist with the preparation for morning tea and lunches. 

Last week was very busy, with over 30 custom options ordered, this does not include items that are premade or morning tea. Unfortunately if I don't get any volunteers these options have to be limited.

Our canteen operates every Friday and has a variety of options for our students and staff to choose from. We welcome you to volunteer on a Friday to assist with preparation and delivery of Morning Tea and Lunches from 10am through until 1.15pm. 

If you can only spare 1 or 2 hours of your Friday we understand everyone gets very busy and every minute will help.

A volunteer sign up register has been created online at www.volunteersignup.org this weeks link is volunteersignup.org/7BAXP you can find the remaining of Term 4 links on the St Joey's Parents Facebook page

FRUIT SALAD

The Summer menu has been a real hit, with students and staff ordering approx. 3.5 kgs of the delicious fruit salad for morning tea. Each week the variety of fruit salad will change slightly due to supply.

BACON AND EGGS ROLLS

This week unless we have a volunteer we won't be able to offer the bacon and egg rolls. Once there is a volunteer we can then add them onto our options for online orders.

SUMMER DEALS

Mac & Cheese and Lasagna are only available for a short time until they run out. With only a couple of each you will need to be quick! These are being sold at a reduced price of $4.50

A reminder that orders close at 8:30am Friday mornings and we are always here to assist if you are having any issues ordering online prior to this cut off time.

• If you are ordering on your PC please select your Child's profile, Community, Canteen and it will say 'Welcome to canteen' - Get Started.

• If you are ordering from your phone you will need to: open in browser, select your child's profile and the canteen menu should be available to you there.

Attached is the Canteen Menu which is available every week, we are always interested in any feedback to continue bringing you the best service we can. 

SHARE YOUR FAVOURITE RECIPE 

Do you have any delicious lunch box recipes that you make for your children? We would like to share these throughout our school community each week in the canteen section of the newsletter.   

Please share your recipes with us and email them through to quicanteen@arm.catholic.edu.au and we will attach a new one each week, so keep an eye out for new ideas to try in your kids lunch boxes.