How Do We Help?
Membership provides access to a growing library of recipes developed specifically for large scale catering. It additionally provides members with inspiration each month through a range of new recipes, plus informative nutrition and culinary blogs focused on large scale catering.
Each of our recipes creates full flavoured, nutritious and cost effective food and are drawn from a wide range of cuisines, incorporating much loved dishes from yesterday and popular dishes of today.
Our recipes also include nutritional analysis and diet support with each recipe displaying relevant claims based on FSANZ standards.
But Our Help Does Not Stop There!
Each recipe is scalable and includes our recipe scaling calculator, which allows a member to select the production quantity or portion numbers and portion size (yield) required.
Each recipe can optionally be costed and have a portion size nutritionally analysed to review its nutrient content e.g. protein, calcium or iron, before being saved using our My Recipe function, for use next time the dish is produced (on the menu).
Who Can We Help?
Anyone involved in feeding large numbers of people in, workplaces, schools and universities, aged care (senior living) homes, mine sites, defense bases, stadiums, conference and function centres, hospitals and childcare centres just to name a few.
Tested Recipes
Our recipes are all kitchen tested to ensure they are full flavoured, nutritious and cost effective. Testing also allows us to determine yield loss in the preparation and cooking process which helps ensure the accuracy of each recipe's final yield.
During this process certain ingredients are identified, mainly herbs and spices that need to be multiplied by a lower percentage as the recipe is produced in larger quantities. This data is built in and automatically factored by our scaling calculator every time the recipe is used.
Scalable Recipes
Each recipe is scalable and includes our recipe scaling calculator, which allows a member to select the production quantity or portion numbers and portion size (yield) required.
Each recipe can optionally be costed and have a portion size nutritionally analysed, before being saved using our My Recipe function, for use next time the recipe is produced (on the menu).
How is a Recipe Scaled and Costed?
To scale a recipe for the quantity (yield) you want to produce, select your scaling preference, either the NUMBER OF PORTIONS option or the TOTAL YIELD option.
With the NUMBER OF PORTIONS option. Select a measurement system Metric or Imperial. Then enter the number of required portions e.g. 200. Lastly, enter the portion size required e.g. 225g.
For the second option, select TOTAL YIELD. Then select a measurement system Metric or Imperial. Lastly, enter the required total yield size e.g. 45kg.
To finalise the recipe, click CALCULATE RECIPE, the calculator will scale the ingredient quantities required.
To cost a recipe, in the COST column of the recipe, add each ingredient cost per unit of measure, this can generally be found on a recent supplier invoice.
The recipes scaling calculator will calculate both the TOTAL COST and if applicable the COST PER PORTION of the scaled recipe.
This information can then be saved using our My Recipe function, for use next time the recipe is produced (on the menu).
Our Recipe Claim Criteria
| Nutrient | Claim | Criteria |
|---|---|---|
| DIETARY FIBRE | Good Source of Fibre | ≥4g per serve |
| Excellent Source of Fibre | ≥7g per serve | |
| FAT | Low Fat | ≤1.5g per 100ml liquid food ≤3g per 100g solid food |
| Good Source of Omega 3 | ≥60mg total eicosapentaenoic acid per serve | |
| Low Saturated Fat | ≤0.75g per 100ml liquid food ≤1.5g per 100g solid food | |
| LACTOSE | Lactose Free | No detectable lactose |
| Low Lactose | ≤2g per 100g | |
| PROTEIN | Good Source of Protein | ≥10g per serve |
| SODIUM | Low Sodium | <120mg per 100ml liquid food <120mg per 100g solid food |
| SUGAR | Low Sugar | ≤2.5g per 100ml liquid food ≤5g per 100g solid food |
| No Added Sugar | Food or recipe contains no added sugars/honey/malt/fruit juice concentrate | |
| IRON | Good Source of Iron | Recipe contains ≥ 25% recommended daily intake (RDI) per serve |
| CALCIUM | Good Source of Calcium | Recipe contains ≥ 25% recommended daily intake (RDI) per serve |
| GLUTEN | Gluten Free | No detectable gluten, no oats or oat products |
| Low Gluten | <20mg gluten per 100ml liquid food ≤20mg gluten per 100g solid food | |
| NA | Suitable to Texture Modify* | Contains no ingredients that are unable to be texture modified |
| Vegan* | Contains no animal based products or ingredients derived from animal based products | |
| Vegetarian* | Contains no meat, fish or poultry or ingredients derived from meat, fish or poultry |