JUDITH AISTHORPEE

TAHNEE Badrock wants nothing more than to get kids eating healthy home cooked foods. The qualified chef has recently started up her own business where she helps busy families by cooking up several meals to be eaten during the week.

She also helps with family’s laundry and general cleaning.

She currently cooks food for eight to 10 families each week through her business Aunty Tahnee.

She said she often made rustic home style meals that included hidden veggies that kids wouldn’t notice.

“It’s all health and rustic, so lasagne and pasta bakes, soups and veggie bakes,” she said.

“I try to hide as many veggies in food that I can. Make snacks and like muffins and slices.

“I know they love lasagne and pasta bake I add spinach and chop it up really small.

“Anything really colourful I try to make food that’s a rainbow or a picture so the kids can relate to it.”

Ms Badrock wasn’t always a chef, about five years ago she decided on a career change.

She was previously a paediatric physiotherapist and at 28 she left the medical field and embarked on a career in food.

For five years she worked in restaurants in Melbourne before venturing up to the Top End at the beginning of the year.

“I want to encourage people to eat healthy stuff instead of takeaway and packaged food,” she said.

“I know cooking is time consuming and I know people are struggling to find time to cook.”

Ms Badrock is also in discussions to begin supplying a local school with healthy home cooked meals to be sold at the tuckshop.

“My idea is to become a big part of the school community and share my values of healthy fun food made at home,” she said.

“I would like to encourage kids to eat and try different things and I’d like to help families who are busy eat healthy.”

She would also like to get children involved in the processes of growing food and using it in meals, such as making a herb garden.

You can find out more on Facebook by searching for Aunty Tahnee.