Menu
Our in-house qualified chef prepares healthy meals full of tasty wholegrain foods, fruit, and vegetables. This expertise ensures that your children receive nutritious and delicious meals. We support our environment by using organic foods whenever possible and serving a plant-based vegetarian menu.
Food is presented in an attractive way to support family meal-style eating. Our teachers model developmentally appropriate eating habits and table manners.
Kakapo Creek welcomes families from many backgrounds, cultures, beliefs, and practices. As such, we have designed a menu that is both environmentally friendly and inclusive of many different families. We serve vegetarian meals at Kakapo Creek, which meet the needs of Halal and Kosher diets. We also support families with allergies, where a medical certificate can be provided.
Nutrition is essential to our children’s development.
Adults play a crucial role in shaping the nutritional habits of our children. Highly processed, high-fat, high-sugar, and high-chemical diets are harmful to children. Therefore it’s important to take action. Moreover our food consumption is hurting our planet. Therefore, Kakapo Creek has designed our menu and meal plans with both your children’s health and our planet in mind.
Our farm school excursions are not just about learning. They’re about experiencing the journey of food from farm to table. Children get to harvest food from our vegetable gardens, orchard, and collect eggs from our free-range hens. This direct connection to the food they eat at Kakapo Creek reinforces the freshness and quality of our meals.
Breakfast (upon request), morning tea, cooked main meal for lunch, afternoon tea PLUS Healthy breakfasts and pre-cooked healthy take home meals for parents on the go (pre-order at extra cost).
Young children are still developing their sense of taste. Feeding children low salt, low sugar wholegrain foods is setting them up for a future of healthy dietary choices. Wholegrain tastes sensational!
Meals are served at a table with children sitting together with their teacher. Because meal times are an opportunity to develop social skills we encourage teachers to sit and eat and talk with children during each meal time. This way they model good table manners and spend quality bonding time with children.
Remarkably, some of the world’s largest animals are vegetarian: hippos, elephants, giraffe, rhino etc. They get enough iron and protein on their plant based diets. While there are of course significant differences between animals and humans we too can get our protein and iron from plant based foods. Your child will eat a wide variety of legumes (beans, lentils, pulses) to ensure a balanced diet. And of course, you feed them too, so if you believe they need more or less nutrition you can vary their diet accordingly. If the whole Western world went vegetarian for just one day a week we would solve much of our food shortages, environmental damage and improve animal well being.
If you’re still not convinced, be conscious that Kakapo Creek only serves your child five out of their 21 meals each week – two lunches and every breakfast and dinner is at home with you. So there are plenty of other opportunities for you to add meat to their diet if you believe this is needed.
Privately owned and operated by Ian & Kaye McKean, Kakapo Creek is designed using the very best evidence based family research, incorporating attachment theory and neuroscience.
09 410 2181
Monday – Friday
7:30am – 5:30pm
409 – 411 Beach Rd,
Mairangi Bay, Auckland, New Zealand