Catering
Enjoying healthier food and drinks at events
Caterers for groups and organisations can play an important role in supporting healthy eating, a key step in reducing one's risk of heart disease.
A Healthier Serve: The Heart Foundation’s Guide to healthier catering
A Healthier Serve is a guide to serving healthier food and drinks when catering for a group or organisation. A few simple changes can make a big difference to the food served at your events, proving healthier is still delicious.
Inside the guide are practical tips for healthy options at breakfast, lunch and dinner functions. Also included are ideas for hot and cold finger food, vegetarian options, BBQs and tasty desserts.
A Healthier Serve. The Heart Foundation’s Guide to Healthier Catering.
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Creating a catered functions policy
If you are part of an organisation that provides food regularly, you might like to create your own healthy catered functions policy. It is a good way to make healthier choices easier at your functions, meetings, seminars and events.
Tips for developing your own catered functions policy for your workplace, or sports or social group.
Providing a list of allergens
This information sheet shows why and how to provide allergen information to people attending your function.
Choosing a caterer
There will be times when you may need an external caterer and will work with them to cater your event. When selecting an external caterer:
- chat with them about providing healthier choices
- give them a copy of your catered functions policy (if you have one)
- give them a copy of A Healthier Serve
- discuss the allergen checklist with them or give them the prepared table to complete.
Reducing saturated and trans fats in prepared foods
The 3-Step Guide from the Heart Foundation shows food outlets and caterers how to reduce the levels of unhealthy saturated and trans fats from their menus.
The 3-Step Guide
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For more information, email us or call 1300 36 27 87.
Recipes
You might like to try some of the following recipes at your event. These recipes come from our Heart Foundation cookbooks and have been developed to cater for two group sizes: 10 serves and 50 serves.
Hummus
Tomato Vinaigrette
Smoked Salmon, Asparagus and Lemon Fettuccine
Rigatoni with Pumpkin and Ginger Tofu
Pasta Bake with Meat Sauce
Spicy Chickpea and Spinach Salad
Summer Prawn and Avocado Salad
Avocado and Bean Salad
Seafood Oregano Marinade
Seafood Sesame Dressing
Raspberry Dressing
Sweet Soy and Sesame Dressing
Sweet Chilli Dressing
Thai Lime Dressing
Herb Vegetable Marinade
These and other recipes can be found on our recipe page.
You can order the Heart Foundation cookbooks from our merchandise page.