The Big Vegie Crunch is a fun health promotion event to help our community UP THE VEG.

Our school will be taking part in The Big Vegie Crunch (part of Vegetable Week) at 10am on Thursday 31 March and students should come to school dressed in the colour of their favourite vegetable.

Primary schools across NSW will be joining together to break the record for the most students crunching vegetables:

• 50,260 students crunching simultaneously (2018 record) 
• 14,991 students crunching at other times over Vegetable Week (2019 record)

Get ready for The Big Vegie Crunch!

What can you do to help? 

Pack vegetables or a container of vegetables (not fruit this time) for your child to eat on Thursday 31 March

Need some ideas? 

• carrot, celery, cucumber – cut into sticks or left whole
• capsicum – cut into sticks or wedges
• corn – raw baby corn spears or a cooked corn cob 
• broccoli or cauliflower florets - raw or lightly cooked to keep their crunch
• tomatoes – small cherry tomatoes or a large tomato that can be eaten like an apple
• beans or snow peas - raw or lightly cooked to keep their crunch
• mushrooms – sliced or left whole
• if fresh veg isn’t possible, try canned or frozen vegetables instead

Send your child to school dressed in the colours of their favourite vegetables.

Remember to keep serving up the vegetables at home and in your children’s lunchboxes. Check out the resource ideas below:

Get Resourced for the Big Vegie Crunch

Vegetable Week & The Big Vegie Crunch Resources

Vegetable Week Competition - Social Media

Next Week our school will post about our Big Vegie Crunch event on the school’s social media account between Monday 28 March and Friday 1 April 2022. The posts with the most total likes, shares, comments or retweets (on a single post) will win a $400 Vegepod voucher. There will be one winner from a large size school, a medium size school and a small size school. 

Families and friends are encouraged to like, share, comment and retweet the post. 

Mrs Sue Smyth -  Vegetable Week School Coordinator