Fresh for Kids partnered with the Premiers Sporting Challenge again this year to promote the 2010 Chow Down and Win Canteen Campaign.

The campaign, which rewards students for buying fresh fruit and vegetables at their participating school canteen, has encouraged almost 1.5 million children to eat more fresh produce since 2000.

This year Australian netballer Susan Pratley, former Olympic swimmer Craig Stevens, current discus World Champion Dani Samuels and Paralympian Jayme Paris joined the campaign as Ambassadors to help promote healthy eating and an active lifestyle amongst school aged children.

Six schools across Sydney and the Central Coast had the opportunity to meet the Ambassadors and the F&V Gang. The Ambassadors participated with the students in a mini Olympics and talked to them about foods and activities they enjoy and showed them that healthy eating can be fun and delicious.

Below is a list of schools that took part in the visits this year –

• Georges Hall Public School
• Hobartville Public School
• Kincumber Public School
• Merrylands Public School
• Smithfield Public School
• St Clair Public school

The F&V Gang were excited to be part of the visits where they got to hand out fresh fruit and wristbands to students.

For more information on the Canteen Campaign please click here.

The Marketing Department, along with Captain Capsicum and the School Sport Foundation made a special visit to Rossmore Public School on Friday 21 May as part of the 'promoting the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables' grants category.

The funding will allow Rossmore Public School to run their school's fitness and healthy lifestyle program – Rossmore Munch More. The program is nutrition based, and helps create lifelong healthy habits for students, with the development of a recipe book containing recipes prepared by the students plus other recipes collected from parents.

Bazza Banana was lucky enough to visit Kyeemagh Infants School on Friday 23 April, along with the Marketing Department and the School Sport Foundation, as part of the ‘promoting the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables’ grants category.

The funding will support the Fresh Fabulous Food program being run at the school. The program is nutrition based, where the students will plant, grow and harvest Kyeemagh’s fruit and vegetable gardens with the opportunity to follow and create recipes.

The Marketing Department, along with Oscar Orange and the School Sport Foundation visited Lapstone Public School on Tuesday 30 March as part of the ‘promoting the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables’ grants category.

The funding will assist Lapstone Public School to run their Kitchen Garden Co-operative program.

Fiona Sharpe presented the school with a certificate and Sydney Markets Limited donated some potatoes for the school to prepare a special potato bake for the students.