Fruit Fly Fruit and vegetable Restrictions for St Pius X School

With the fruit fly restrictions, you may be having trouble working out what you can and can’t pack in your children’s lunch boxes for fruit snacks, recess and lunch.
Here is a list of fruit and vegetables that are definitely ok to bring into school:

Honeydew melon, rock melon, watermelon, pineapple, strawberries, beans, corn, carrots, cucumber, celery and mushrooms.

A full list is available at this link: https://fruitfly.sa.gov.au/outbreak-restrictions/fruit-and-veg-without-restrictions

Cooked or canned fruit and vegetables are ok too. If you cut the pieces smaller and put them into a reusable container it may encourage your kids to eat all that you have packed for them.

Check out this link for more lunch box ideas: https://fruitfly.sa.gov.au/outbreak-restrictions/packing-lunches

If fresh fruit or vegetable come onto the school site and is completely consumed that is ok too.

Check out the outbreak map at this link - https://fruitfly.sa.gov.au/outbreak-map

St Pius X is in a yellow area.

What does this mean?
It means that we can move fresh fruit and vegetables within the yellow zone but not into a green zone. If you are in a yellow zone and move fruit and vegetables into the red zone, the fruit and vegetables can’t leave the red zone.

Our big issue here at school is uneaten produce. Any uneaten fruit and vegetable will either go in landfill or compost. Neither of these situations are ideal since landfill leaves our site (uneaten fruit/veg included) or in the compost where fruit fly can still lay and hatch their eggs in un-composted food. If we can minimise the amount of restricted fruit and vegetables moving into our zone, we will be doing our best to overcome this outbreak of fruit fly and hopefully see the restrictions end on the 22nd December 2021 as planned .

Jane Buhagiar
Environmental Sustainability