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Sushi the new Friday sausage sizzle
5:00AM Saturday June 16, 2007
By Martin Johnston


Leah Selkirk (left) and Devon Piggott (both 7) tuck into their sushi. Photo / Greg Bowker

Sushi has overtaken the sausage sizzle on the fundraising Friday lunch menu of an Auckland school aiming for a healthier food "environment".

And the sushi eaters of Hauraki Primary School in Takapuna are lapping it up - mostly.

Alyssa Statham, 7, prefers sushi to sausages. She is in no doubt that it is healthier. Why? "Because sausage has much fat in it," she says.

Leah Selkirk, 7, another sushi fan, declared she would happily eat it daily if she could, but another part of her admits sausages might be tastier.

The school, which doesn't have a tuckshop, has a parent-run sausage sizzle at lunch-time on Fridays about three times each term.

Other Fridays are sushi days, supplied by parent Helen Zou, who has gone on to supply other schools.

Hauraki principal Clarinda Franklin explains the sushi: "We've been angling towards a more healthy-eating school environment and trying to encourage that."

The sushi scheme started about 18 months ago and is among various attempts nationally to get children into a lifetime habit of healthy eating and physical activity.

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