Chefs plan to prepare lunch for students

THE Papua New Guinea Association of Chefs plans to prepare lunch packs for schools to promote healthy nutritional meal and lifestyles among students.
Vice-president and hotel chef Mike Scheumann said they had started visiting schools and talking to principals on what students were eating at school.
“Students are buying K1 donut and ice blocks or whatever a mother prepares and sells at the school market. “We want to change that,” Scheumann said.
“It’s okay for your child to spend K1 to buy food sold in the markets at school and the next month you spend K100 on hospital cost because your child has malnutrition.”
Scheumann said the Nine-Mile Farm in Port Moresby had come on board as a sponsor and would help with the supply of vegetables and Ilimo milk to be included in the lunch packs.
“The idea is putting together a lunch box for the students.”
He said they would calculate how much it actually costs to put a lunch pack together and try to be as economical as they could to deliver that. Scheumann said they would charge a certain amount for the food. The funds will be used to run the association. “It’s more donation giving. We are a not-for-profit organisation. We are not selling our knowledge. We are giving our knowledge,” he said.
Scheumann said it would also help prevent tuberculosis.
Association president Christopher Lokei is a commercial cookery trainer with the Australia-Pacific Technical College.