What we do

We provide advice to help improve menus by:

• Providing real choice and rebalancing menus
• Using positive language and subtle plant-based promotion
• Training chefs and offering taste-testing
• Introducing plant-rich menus & planet-friendly days
• Celebrating your plant-forward journey with our ProVeg Sustainability Awards

Working with expert chefs, we create nutritious recipes for the people they serve, whether that’s patients, residents, staff, or the general public. Our recipes are affordable, commercially practical, and built around familiar, well-loved meals. They’re also designed with environmental sustainability in mind.

Good food supports recovery, wellbeing, and quality of life. That’s why all of our Million Plates recipes:

• Match meat-based dishes in protein content
• Are lower in saturated fat
• Are rich in fibre and essential nutrients
• Are low or very low carbon-rated
• Meet Australian hospital and aged care nutrition standards

Why our recipes are better for everyone:

• As low as 27% of the emissions of non plant-based meals
• 20% lower cost compared to the average meat-based equivalent
• 30% more fibre and 87% lower in saturated fat

Through our plant-based cooking workshops, we give caterers the tools, techniques, and confidence to serve healthy meals with sustainability in mind.

In-person training

In these hands-on training sessions, our experienced and enthusiastic plant-based chef trainers work alongside catering teams, development chefs, and kitchen staff from hospitals, aged care facilities, workplaces, and public venues, sometimes joined by local suppliers too. Our aim is to help everyone approach plant-based food with fresh eyes, build confidence with new ingredients and recipes, and have plenty of fun along the way.

Online workshops

Our sessions are built for caterers, foodservice managers, sustainability leads, and anyone curious about plant-based cooking. We show you how to prepare simple, affordable, nutritionally balanced and, above all, delicious plant-based recipes that diners genuinely enjoy.

Each live workshop runs for one hour. You’ll get recipe demonstrations, insights from an expert guest speaker, and plenty of time for questions.

Topics we cover:

• The Million Plates program: why healthy, sustainable menus built around planet-friendly meals matter
• Practical plant-based cooking: how to work with plant-based ingredients and cooking methods, brought to life through recipe demos
• ProVeg Sustainability Awards: an introduction to the awards and the evidence-based actions behind them

Built around you

Every kitchen is different. We can build a tailored training plan around your menus, your team, and your service model. Get in touch to see how we can support you.

Caterers across Australia are doing incredible work to make their menus healthier and more sustainable.  Our menu-certification scheme, the ProVeg Sustainability Awards, are our way of recognising the positive steps they are taking for people’s health and the planet.

The ProVeg Sustainability Awards is an evidence-based, tiered awards system that presents caterers across Australia with Gold, Silver and Bronze awards, a prestigious recognition of their commitment to healthy and sustainable menus.

Taking part is free. It’s simply our way of celebrating your amazing efforts.

If you’re interested in taking part, get in touch with us at [email protected].

We help you measure the impact of introducing powerful, plant-forward actions such as planet-friendly days and increasing vegetables and legumes in dishes. Caterers can lead the way in fostering healthy eating habits that minimise the environmental impact of our meal choices.

The data supporting the benefits is compelling, and it highlights the transformative potential of embracing sustainable and healthy options on menus across Australia.

We’re here to help you demonstrate the positive impact of the changes you’re making.

By providing us with some basic data and working with our program analyst, we can generate a report showcasing your personalised impact data. You can share this report with your stakeholders to advocate for change and celebrate success together!

We host a regular online networking meeting, featuring presentations from caterers and organisations sharing their experiences. Participants explore the impact of their menu changes, and discuss what has worked well and the challenges they have overcome in making their menus more planet-friendly. It’s a great opportunity to learn more about Million Plates, to ask questions, share ideas, and seek peer support.

We’d love to see you there! You can sit quietly and soak up the information or get more involved, it’s entirely up to you.

We also offer customised webinars for caterers, climate and sustainability organisations, as well as public health and other government departments, to share how we can work together to make food service healthier and more climate-friendly. And we’re happy to join your events, including climate or health summits, to talk about food or facilitate workshops.