Eat Easy Awards

2022 Australia’s Best Producer – Sea WINNER 🏆
Goolwa PipiCo] for their Goolwa Pipis

Congratulations Goolwa PipiCo] !
💕The Eat Easy Team

2022 Australia’s Best Producer – River WINNER 🏆
Coorong Wild Seafood] for their Wild Carp

Congratulations Coorong Wild Seafood] !
💕The Eat Easy Team

2022 Australia’s Best Producer – Land WINNER 🏆
Grassland Poultry] for their Sommerlad Chicken

Congratulations Grassland Poultry] !
💕The Eat Easy Team

2022 Australia’s Best Producer – Made WINNER 🏆
Pip & S***t | Sprouted Flour] for their Sprouted Red Lentil Flour

Congratulations Pip & S***t | Sprouted Flour] !
💕The Eat Easy Team

2022 Australia’s Best Producer - Grown WINNER 🏆
The Bush Bee man] for their Honey + Honeycomb

Congratulations The Bush Bee man] !
💕The Eat Easy Team

And just like that 2022 Eat Easy judging is wrapped! ⁠
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We can't believe the amazing entries we received for this year's awards. A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to submit your produce. Thanks to our head judge and Eat Easy judges , , , , and .⁠
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We can't wait for this year's awards on November 24th! ⁠
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Submissions close tonight at midnight! Last chance is today, Submit via our link in bio ✨

And as a throw back to last year >
won our 2021 GROWN category for their Moondarra Blueberries. Which as our judges stated “Quite simply the best blueberries in the world. Outstanding packaging & environmental awareness as well”

👂🏻🎧 Our chief judge Mark Best joined Simon Marnie on ABC Sydney for an illuminating chat about the Eat Easy philosophy and why producers and venues serving deliciously sustainable food should enter.

https://www.abc.net.au/sydney/programs/weekendmornings/weekend-mornings/14050340

Interview with Mark begins at 64mins.
Submissions close on Monday the 26th of September.

Guess what!? You’ve got just 12 days to submit your entries to the game-changing produce and hospitality awards, Eat Easy!

We are looking for the producers, restaurants and hospo identities making a difference with delicious and sustainable food via our Produce awards: ‘Grown’, ‘Made’ and ‘Land, River & Sea’; and our Hospo awards: ‘Best Emerging Chef’, ‘Best Emerging FOH’ and ‘Best Neighbourhood Dining’.

Submissions close on Monday the 26th of September. Head over to eateasyawards.com to enter.

Any questions? Please get in touch via [email protected]

Thank you Southern Highland News for the wonderful mention!
Our entries close on the 26th of September & you can enter via eateasyawards.com.au 🌱

Producers still have time to enter the Drink Easy and Eat Easy Awards Australia's best food and drink producers will be celebrated in two unique awards this year, and there is...

Thank you Glam Adelaide for the love!

Only two weeks left to enter the 2022 season for Eat Easy.
Enter via https://www.eateasyawards.com/ ✨

Eat Easy returns to discover the best of Australian food • Glam Adelaide Some of the most celebrated names in Australian food will discover the producers, restaurants, andhospo identities making a difference with delicious and sustainable food thanks to the return of the EatEasy Awards.

Let us introduce you to Eat Easy 2022.

Mark Best, Karena Armstrong, Justin James, Alyx Gorman, Kane Pollard, Ella Winnall, Jacqui Lim and Mandy Hall.

Read more our esteemed team of judges at eateasy.com.au

We asked Richard Gunner for his guide to an ultimate charcuterie board. Check out his recommendations 👇

Happy New Year from the team at Eat Easy....What a season! 🎉

Thank you to everyone for making our first Eat Easy so incredible.
We are excited to sample winter produce this time around and look forward to celebrating in person in 2022... Cheers to the year that was! 🥂

We asked cult chef Duncan Welgemoed what he’s eating this summer.
“This dish (Braised green beans and samphire) is one of my go-tos for a perfect side for lamb or any grilled fish during the summer holidays! It’s slightly briny and super savoury. Make a bunch and keep it in the fridge for a cold pick-me-up when snacking."

Check out the recipe
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Looking for a foodie road trip this summer? ⁠
Check out our Must-Visit 12 Apostles gourmet artisans picks for your Great Ocean Road drive 🌊

Namesake bagel what??!l
Honest Eggs serving up now Comma Tuckshop

Soft boiled Honest Eggs Co. eggs, caper and dill schmear, avocado, dukkah, pickled red onion...
YUM! 🤤

How’s this little day-old cutie from Drysdale Cheeses ! You just have to visit thier page to see how much they love their gorgeous goats.

Here is a look how they are environmentally conscious.

🌱 The distance from dairy to cheese vat is a mere 20m.

🌱 Paper wrapping and compostable vacuum bags make up their environmentally thoughtful packaging!

🌱 A nearby distillery supplies spent juniper berries that they incorporate into a semi hard Tome-style cheese.

🌱 They use a steam cleaner to sanitise the cheese room.

And they make damn tasty cheese too!

📸 Drysdale Cheeses

Eat Easy's recent Best Chef winner Kane Pollard speaks with Alexis Buxton-Collins from Broadsheet Adelaide about reducing waste through his innovative all SA menu at Sôl Bar & Restaurant. Check it out! 👀

https://www.broadsheet.com.au/adelaide/food-and-drink/article/sol-zero-waste-rooftop-restaurant-using-only-south-australian-ingredients

Skycity's Minimal-Waste Rooftop Bar and Restaurant Is Using Only South Australian Ingredients Chef Kane Pollard is reducing waste with innovations such as tomato skin “paprika”, apple core “flour” and celeriac-skin treacle, plus sorbets and ice creams created from vegetable by-products.

A solar evaporation method is to thank for Olsson's Sea Salt high quality. The seawater evaporates in successive ponds until the seawater is fully concentrated and the salt then crystallises on the floor of the pond. It is then scooped up, washed in seawater, dried and packaged.

That's it.

There are no chemical processes involved making Ollsson’s Salt perfectly natural. 🐳

The seawater is sourced from two of the world's most pristine oceans: The Great Barrier Reef (Port Alma, QLD) and The Great Australian Bight (Whyalla, SA).

Kangaroo is not only highly nutritious but it's also one of Australia's most sustainable meats! Here are some of the wonderful things happening Paroo Premium Kangaroo .

🌱 Ethically sourced from the pristine rangelands.
🌱 Kangaroos roam freely grazing on natural vegetation
🌱 Responsible harvesting dependent on population and weather conditions.
🌱 Far lower carbon emissions and water needs than farmed domestic animals

Nomad Farms have a strong restorative pasture technique.

🌱 Mimic natural systems and build biodiversity using “Grazing naturally’ techniques.

🌱 Paddock rotation allowing year long pasture resting.

🌱 These grazing strategies offset the carbon cycle allowing natural storage in the soil.

Thanks to our great friends Smeg Australia all Eat Easy category winners receive a Smeg 50s style Standard Mixer.

Some features you’ll fall in love with 🖤💕

🧁 10 variable speed settings

🧁 Smooth Start feature for a gradual start up

🧁 full enamel finish tilt head mixer with a 4.8L stainless steel bowl

🧁 Five-wire whisk, three-part Silicone coated flex edge be**er, non-stick flat be**er and dough hook

Our office will happily taste test any cupcakes!

Check out some of the great sustainability things happening at Moonblue Berries!

🌱 The entire packaging is home compostable, the windows are made of eucalyptus.

🌱 Family run business that was an early adopter of organic practices.

🌱 Advocates within the packaging industry to make sustainable packaging solutions more accessible to small producers.

Showing that together we can make each other better!

Schulz Organic Dairy impressively has been using biodynamic and organic principles since 1972!

🌱 Their Milk is processed a mere 100m from the dairy. Talk about a small carbon footprint!

🌱 Pure, simple and delicious Friesian and Jersey Cow all natural full cream milk with no additives

🌱 No chemicals, hormones, herbicides or pesticides are used on the farm.

🌱 Self-sufficient system through crop rotation and farm composts.

Very impressive results for an 832 acre property!

Bred Winner Honest Eggs Co. is on a mission to change the egg industry for the better. Here is a sneak peak at some of their amazing achievements so far.

🌱 Limit of 30 hens per hectare, government free range regulation is a whopping 10,00 per hectare and CSIRO recommend 1,500.

🌱 They use plant based stickers and ink, making their packaging 100% compostable

🌱 All packaging cardboard is sourced within Australia.

🌱 Mobile hen houses allow regular paddock rotation helping regenerate pasture and prevent disease.

🌱 Their next project is to become Australia’s first BCorp Certified egg company

📷 Honest Eggs Co.

Wild Harvested Winner Gazander Oysters have some pretty cool sustainable practices in place.
Check this out!

🌱 Over harvesting prevention through oyster biomass management.

🌱 Fully solar powered facility and they have introduced hybrid vehicles.

🌱 They have a bio friendly toilet system.

🌱 When their plastic baskets reach the end of their reusable lifespan they repurpose them through a pelleting process.

🌱 Their packaging uses biodegradable foam replacement cardboard and minimal plastic.

📷 Kinship Productions

So many wonderful things are happening in Australia around sustainability in hospitality. Here’s a snapshot of what Red Meat winner Cherry Tree Organics is up to!

🌱 They will be carbon neutral in January 2022

🌱 Certified organic for 20 years – that's an impressive time without chemical fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides.

🌱 Over the last five years they have followed an Emissions Management Plan through working with Carbon Farmers Australia.

🌱 The farm is entirely self- sufficient with water, from a large onsite dam and rainwater tanks.

🌱 Reintroduced native vegetation 20 years ago and still doing so to encourage biodiversity and encourage wildlife.

📸 Cherry Tree Organics

Thanks Lara Pacillo for the great article for Glam Adelaide .
Check out the great awards cleaned up by South Australian producers.

https://glamadelaide.com.au/sa-wins-big-at-the-national-easy-awards-unveiling-the-best-food-and-drink-in-aus/

SA wins big at the national Easy Awards unveiling the best food and drink in Aus • Glam Adelaide Australia’s best food, drinks, eateries, and producers have been unveiled at the game changing Easy Awards with SA taking home a number of awards.

2021 BEST MADE WINNER 💥
Schulz Organic Dairy (Schulz Organic Dairy ) for their Organic Full Cream Milk (VIC)

💕 Congratulations Schulz Organic Dairy

2021 TOP MADE ✨

2 >> Drysdale Cheeses // Goat Cheese (VIC)

3 >> TheFermentary // Kraut Crack (VIC)

4 >> Halls Family Dairy // Hall Suzette (WA)

5 >> // Aged La Dame (SA)

2021 BEST GROWN WINNER 💥
Moonblue Berries for their Moondarra Blueberries 125g Fresh Punnet (VIC)

💕 Congratulations Moonblue Berries!
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2021 TOP GROWN ✨

2 >> Olsson's Sea Salt // Sea Salt Flakes (SA)

3 >> K&R Produce // Heirloom Carrots (SA)

4 >> Olsson's Sea Salt // Red Gum Smoked Sea Salt (SA).

5 >> K&R Produce // Kale (SA)

2021 BEST BRED WINNER 💥
Honest Eggs Co. for their 700g Free Range Chicken Eggs.

Congratulations Honest Eggs Co. !
💕 The Eat Easy Team