Wellington Foodies Kid's

Looking for a cooking class to keep your little chef occupied during the school holidays?
Highly acclaimed chef Maxine Scheckter will be hosting these fab cooking classes at Sugar Flour.
Hurry up and bag your child's ticket today. These classes are sure to sell out in super quick time!

These pastries were made by the very talented Lizzy, only 14 years old!
Book your children in for our school holiday class (ages 12+) and they can make beautiful creations just like these!
The classes will be at 11am on Wednesday and Thursday the 23rd and 24th of January, and will run for 2 1/2 hours. Classes are $35 per person
Your children will get to decorated 3 tarts, with a small demo by me, but full creativity for them to decorate as they please! They’ll get to take all their tarts home too
Email [email protected] to book!

Lovely day in the Crave Cooking School + Production Kitchen celebrating Lulu's 12th Birthday. These are a few of the freestyle dumplings that Lulu and her friends created.
It was a pleasure teaching such a lovely group of young ladies.

Top tip for Mother's Day! Zibibbo Wellington are hosting a one-off high tea especially for Mother's Day.
They have a rather fabulous French pastry Chef who has created these delicious treats especially for you and your tribe.
I'd get in early though as this event is sure to sell out...

Mothers Day is on the way! Our amazing pastry Chef Flavien has created this stunning high tea especially for Mothers Day.
Three layers of pure delight.
Please drop us a line or give us a call to make a reservation. We'll be open for high tea from 11.30am and for dinner from 5pm. [email protected] or 04 3856650

Happy Birthday Maisie. We hope you enjoyed your Birthday Bakeoff Crave Cooking School + Production Kitchen.
We had a blast :)

We're loving New World Thorndon Little Garden giveaway!
Junior Foodie has never taken any particular interest in our veggie garden but this promotion has him totally captivated.
His first seeds sprouted on yesterday and his excitement was a total joy!
Thank you New World for helping our children become motivated to grow their own veggies. Such a beautiful gift.

Thank you Abigail for choosing Wellington Foodies Kids to host your 11th Birthday party cooking class at Crave Cooking School + Production Kitchen.
A delightful bunch of young ladies with a great passion for food.
It was a pleasure having you at the cooking school.
We hope you make good use of your new found culinary skills and cook plenty of dumplings and chocolate mousse for your family and friends.
For more information about our Birthday party cooking classes please email [email protected]

The Munch children's food awards are back and they are encouraging Kiwi parents to vote for the best and worst NZ foods. Please visit their site and register your vote. Help improve the quality of food we feed to our little ones. http://munchnz.co.nz/munch-food-awards-2015/?v=8e3eb2c69a18

Munch Food Awards 2015 - Munch The Munch Food Awards are back! With the success of the 2013 and the 2014 we are very excited about the Munch Food Awards 2015.

My junior foodie loves guacamole. Takes minutes to make. The perfect after school snack. With a few tortilla chips this tasty snack is also gluten-free friendly.
Roughly chop half a medium sized red onion, peel and roughly chop half an avocado, half a bunch of coriander, a pinch of sweet smoked paprika, juice of one lime.
Pop it all in the blender and blitz until smooth.
Be sure to save a few for yourself....

Happy Easter Wellington. Hope you all have a fabulous long weekend, filled with delicious treats x

If you have children with allergies or intolerances you might want to sign up for Nicola Galloway Homegrown Kitchen healthy baking workshop at Crave Cooking School + Production Kitchen on the 2nd of May.
Nicola is a whizz when it comes to whole foods, healthy baking inspiration and advice on adapting recipes to cater for gluten free, sugar free, and diary free.
She will also be running a fermentation workshop on the same day which will teach you about the amazing probiotic properties of fermented food.
Click the link and visit Nicola's website for more info and to book….

WELLINGTON / Natural Fermentation / Sat 2nd May / 10 - 12pm *limited places available.

This sounds like an awesome show and Citywrigglers are giving away one family pass. Visit their FB page to be in to win!...

Orchestra Wellington have created a 'magic' children's concert, Abracadabra, and I chatted with Thomas Goss (aka Thomas Anonymous), composer and magician for the show about what you can expect to see. Read about it here www.citywrigglers.co.nz.

I also have a giveaway to WIN a family pass (two adults, two children) to see either the upcoming Wellington or Paraparaumu show - just comment below with which show you'd like to see to enter!

Capital E National Arts Festival for Children | Boosted We want NZ children to experience award-winning arts from around the world and home that has been made especially for them. Our campaign is to make this Festival accessible for all. Transport costs for schools is often an obstacle for participating – donating $5 puts a child on a bus.

Great news! Jamie Oliver plans to open a restaurant in Wellington…. http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/food-news/65530146/jamie-oliver-to-open-restaurant-in-wellington

Jamie's dinners Diners will soon be chowing down Jamie Oliver's dishes in the heart of Wellington.

What a fantastic idea! Donate veggies from your garden in exchange for a House of Dumplings voucher and raise money for a worthy cause while your at it! Awesome!…

The lovely people at House of Dumplings are creating two delicious, limited edition City & Sea dumplings (including one for veggies!) which will go on sale at their Taranaki Street store from next Monday. Proceeds will be donated to our ''What Year Are You?'' fundraising campaign.

But we need your help! We want to fill the dumplings with home-grown veggies from our awesome city - if your garden is chock-full of veggies (and we'll take anything but tomatoes!), you can take them along to the House of Dumpling shop and for every 500g handed over, you'll receive a $5 voucher.

So you get rid of your veggies, you get a $5 voucher AND you''ll be helping a fantastic cause. Get picking, Wellington!

Some awesome knife skills on display at yesterdays school holiday class. Teaching children to chop with control and precision. Building kitchen confidence!
Just two places left for tomorrows pasta class….
http://www.wellingtonfoodies.co.nz/ #!services2/c86j

Wow! This looks like an awesome way to spend a summers day….

Name tags and recipe cards are ready for the first kids cooking class of 2015! Sorry but tomorrows class is sold out. If you have a keen little chef who would like to get in on the action there are two places left for Fridays tagliatelle and meatball class at Crave Cooking School + Production Kitchen. Please click the link for more details…. http://www.wellingtonfoodies.co.nz/ #!services2/c86j

It takes very little persuasion to get children tuck into a bowl of pasta and meatballs. Delicious balls of Green Meadows Beef in a rich tomato and capsicum sauce with ribbons of home made tagliatelle. This could be on the menu at your place….
Just two places left for next weeks fresh pasta class. Please click the link for details and bookings…. http://www.wellingtonfoodies.co.nz/ #!services2/c86j

Sorry folks, our pot-stickers class is now sold out! A waiting list is available if you'd like to drop us a line.
Just four places left for our tagliatelle and meatball class on the 23rd. Please click the link for details and booking info…. http://www.wellingtonfoodies.co.nz/ #!services2/c86j

Sorry folks our dumpling class has now sold out. Still a few places left for our pasta and meatball class if you're looking for a fabulous cooking class to keep the children occupied during the school holiday. Please check out our website for details and booking info…. http://www.wellingtonfoodies.co.nz/ #!services2/c86j

Spent the afternoon baking a birthday cake for my sons favourite bear. Apparently he is 101 years old. Must be all the carrots he eats….
Happy New Year # # #

Just three places left for our pot-stickers class on the 21st. Would make a lovely Christmas present for the little chef in you're family. Drop us a line if you would like to buy a gift token…. http://www.wellingtonfoodies.co.nz/ #!services2/c86j

Hi Folks, the school holidays are just a hop, skip and a jump away. We're going to be hosting two classes for children aged 8-12 years in January. Chinese dumplings and tagliatelle and meatballs are on the cards.
Please visit our website to book. Tickets will be going live on Eventfinder on Monday….
http://www.wellingtonfoodies.co.nz/ #!services2/c86j

It's time to send in your nominations for the Munch Awards.....

The purpose of the 2014 Munch Awards is to raise awareness of the good and the bad of the kids food industry. We want to celebrate all those great people out there who are really looking out for our kids, so this is a great way to raise awareness.
http://www.munchcooking.com/munch-awards-2014/

Munch Awards 2014 - Munch Cooking How exciting, its the Munch Awards 2014. After the success of last years awards, we are now running more categories of awards including a supreme award.

Wellington Foodies are hosting a great little workshop that explores juicing and raw food with The Greengrocer at Crave Catering & Cooking School on the 4th of October. Great way of getting veggies into kids by stealth....

Spring has sprung and its it's time for a detox... We've invited Brent Skinnon, Juicemaker extraordinaire from The Greengrocer and raw food Chef Ainsley Thompson to host this cleansing workshop just for Wellington Foodies.
Just listed and filling up fast! Please visit our Meetup site for more details..... http://www.meetup.com/Wellington-Foodies-Group/events/206777382/

Wellington Chocolate Factory's pretty little doughnut trees.... Now that's what I call sustainable chocolate!...

Exciting news.... the P**i Truck is coming to Wellington!

The P**i Truck is coming to... WELLINGTON!!

22/23rd AUGUST 6-9pm Lux Light Festival http://lux.org.nz/

SHARE with your Welly friends and meet them for P**i pizza at the Food Truck Trailer Park on the waterfront :)

Wellington Foodies and Crave Catering & Cooking School are looking forward to welcoming Nicola Galloway Homegrown Kitchen to Wellington in September. Nicola will be hosting two classes exploring healthy baking and healthy lunchbox fillers. The healthy baking class is now sold out but a few more tickets have just been released through Eventfinder for her fabulous lunchbox fillers class on the 20th of September. Please visit the link below for more details.... http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2014/healthy-snacks-and-lunchboxes-with-nicola-galloway/wellington

Looking for a little lunchbox inspiration? This could be the class for you. The amazing Nicola Galloway Homegrown Kitchen is coming to town and is going to be hosting this amazing workshop which is sponsored by Commonsense Organics for Wellington Foodies at Crave Catering & Cooking School...... http://www.meetup.com/Wellington-Foodies-Group/events/196690132/