Healthy food can be tasty

05 October 2009 - 02:00
By Zinhle Mapumulo

NATIONAL nutrition week begins on Thursday and the Department of Health is embarking on an awareness campaign to educate South Africans on the benefits of eating healthily from birth to old age.

NATIONAL nutrition week begins on Thursday and the Department of Health is embarking on an awareness campaign to educate South Africans on the benefits of eating healthily from birth to old age.

Other organisations have also joined the campaign in the various provinces. In Western Cape executive chef Reuben Riffel will visit two schools in a bid to prove that nutritious low-cost meals can be tasty too.

Riffel will partner the Peninsula School Feeding Association and Pick n Pay. Some of his colleagues will join him