If you’ve been out to eat with your kids recently, you’d be forgiven for thinking there is only one thing on the menu – chicken nuggets and chips.
Which is why one Melbourne-based father-of-three, Jonathan Pangu, has taken matters into his own hands and launched a campaign to overhaul unhealthy kids’ menus.
Death To Nuggets is a campaign designed to bring better foods into children’s restaurants and cafes, instead of the regular options such as chicken nuggets and chips, fish and chips and spaghetti bolognese and chips.
Death To Nuggets is a campaign designed to bring better foods into children’s restaurants and cafes, instead of the regular options such as chicken nuggets and chips (stock image)
It has been set up by Melbourne-based father-of-three, Jonathan Pangu (pictured), who is tired of the same things being sold at cafes
‘We’re moving in the wrong direction with food, unlearning good habits and eating too much highly processed stuff,’ the Death To Nuggets website reads.
‘One in four Aussie kids are now overweight or obese and they’re twice as likely to be so as their parents were at the same age.
‘Death To Nuggets aims to make good food interesting to kids, not a lecture.
‘We love creativity and imagination. We think about the experience of eating, so it’s not a boring adult thing.’
‘One in four Aussie kids are overweight or obese and they’re twice as likely to be so as their parents were at the same age,’ the Death To Nuggets website reads (pictured: Jonathan Pangu)
At present, Death To Nuggets is working with interested cafes and restaurants to improve their children’s menus (pictured)
At present, Death To Nuggets is working with interested cafes and restaurants to improve their children’s menus.
As well as this, it also promotes establishments that serve healthy food to kids, and hosts events designed to get children aged 5-13 interested in healthy meals.
One menu from an associated cafe reads: ‘A different kind of kids’ menu’ – and stocks dishes such as The Incredible Hulk – which includes avocados, broad beans, feta and zucchini flower – alongside Protein Pancake Party – which includes banana and almond pancakes, coconut yoghurt, blueberries and honey.
The dishes are deliberately designed to tempt even the fussiest of eaters.
The father-of-three explained that parents have to be prepared to pay more for decent quality food (stock image)
While at present, only selected eateries are involved, Mr Pangu hopes the idea for Death To Nuggets will catch on.
Speaking to ABC, he revealed that parents have to be prepared to pay more for decent quality food:
‘We’ve got to this point where it’s $6 or $7 a plate for some beige fried food,’ he told the publication.
‘But this is our kids, they’re supremely important to us and so is their health and their happiness — I’d argue its worth spending a little bit more.’
To find out more about Death To Nuggets, please visit the website here.