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Inspire our children to bake a potato
A practical guide to baking potatoes.
How to impart skills and foster personal responsibility.
Our vision...
The potato industry has a vision that they would like every New Zealand
child to have the skill to bake a potato. We believe if ‘a child can bake a
potato - they can make a meal!’
We have based this programme on the philosophy that ‘if you give a man
a fish, you feed him for lunch. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
We ask you to join us in imparting the skill to bake a potato. By teaching a child to bake a potato, they will have a skill to feed themselves for their lifetime.
This is a practical and achievable way to encourage simple healthy food choices. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if all our children knew that ‘a full tummy is only one potato away’?
With your support we can make a difference.
Keep it simple...
Whilst you could do all sorts of elaborate baked potato flavour combinations,
the purpose of this strategy is to take a potato and turn it into a complete
meal with the maximum taste and nutrition with a minimum of fuss and expense.
Above all we want to give a positive potato experience that will motivate and
inspire repetition which will lead to long term nurturing and nourishing the
child and their family.
Potatoes have many redeeming features. This strategy is a fantastic opportunity to establish good eating habits by encouraging the consumption of a food which is...
• easy to prepare
• nutritious
• readily available
• economically attainable
• a taste widely enjoyed
• locally grown
• environmentally sustainable
• an integral part of our culture
Get support - calling all grandparents!
Involve the grandparents, or elderly neighbours or friends, of your children . We have found that many have more time to support you than the parents - and you may be surprised with their enthusiasm and passion. They were bought up on potatoes and it is a very tangible and positive thing that they can do with their grandkids . We have great resources to inspire them to take the with their grandchildren... we want to keep the Kiwi potato eating tradition alive because it brings so many benefits to everyone. • Find out more...
RESOURCES IN MAORI AND SAMOAN...
Check out our FREE resources which can be downloaded or ordered online, available in English, Maori and Samoan - all designed to help you ‘spread the baked potato word’. These include: posters, leaflets, stickers and fact sheets.
• Find out more...
The take home messages...
- I can bake a potato, so I can make a meal.
- When I am hungry I can bake a potato and fill my tummy.
- I know potatoes taste fantastic.
- Potatoes are great for me because they have lots of fibre, Vitamin C and they give me energy without fat. They will fill me up.
- Potatoes are good for the planet - they are really efficient plants and use much less water than other crops.
- Potatoes give me more nutrition per unit of land, water and money than any other major staple crop.
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