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Healthcare foodservice
I can help with:
- Therapeutic diet meal audits
- Menu planning, recipe development, menu descriptions
- Training of cooks and chefs
- Healthy cooking methods, allergen awareness, and ingredient control for health-focused recipes and specialized diets
- Training of ward hostesses
- Special diet knowledge, communication with patients etc.
- Planning and implementation of therapeutic diet processes and procedures from orders to serving of therapeutic diet meals
- Recipe- and menu analyses
- Detailed nutritional profile of recipes including calories, calories from fat, total fat, saturated fat, trans-fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrate, sugars, dietary fiber, total protein.
- Legislative compliance
- Evaluation of current recipes and modification to meet standards to comply with low fat, low sodium, high fibre, low GI or gluten free specifications while retaining the taste and flavor of the original recipe to a reasonable degree
- Development of food and nutritional education materials
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School and other tertiary foodservice establishments
I can help with:
- Healthy school canteen programs
- Design of balanced nutritious school menus
- Menu evaluation and reports
- Recipe planning
- Staff training
- Wellness days
- Nutrition talks with learners and/or parents
- Menu analysis
- Newsletters
- Healthy school tuck shops
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Corporate foodservice
I can help with:
- Design and implementation of healthy meal initiatives and wellness programs and healthy menu descriptions
- Healthy menu descriptions and special diet menus e.g. vegetarian and gluten free diets
- Healthy food or special dietary request function menus, recipes and guidance
- Recipe design and menu planning
- Nutritional analyses of recipe and menus
- Liaison with corporate marketing teams regarding labelling requirements and theme days
- Staff training
- Training with back of house staff to ensure that food claims are met; and with front of house staff to be able help customers to identify suitable and safe options for their dietary needs
- Wellness day stand
- Nutrition talks