A mobile kitchen run by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food rolled into Hoppers Crossing last Thursday, ready to teach residents to cook healthy meals.
The kitchen will be based at 86 Derrimut Road, next to the Youth Resource Centre, for 10 weeks. Manager Emma Hannah said hundreds of students had signed up for classes aimed at improving basic cooking skills.
“We want to strip food back to basics and make it easier for people to cook,” she said.
The mobile kitchen will visit 11 municipalities across Victoria over the next two and a half years as part of the state government’s Healthy Together initiative.
Wyndham is one of 14 “at-risk” municipalities taking part.
The city has one of the highest obesity rates in the west, with 23.9 per cent of men and
18.9 per cent of women considered obese.
It also has low rates of fruit and vegetable consumption. The government’s 2012 Victorian Population Health Survey revealed 57 per cent of men and 53 per cent of women in Wyndham did not eat two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables each day.
The mobile kitchen will run 23 classes a week in two, five-week blocks.
