“Boy you’re doing well with your yummy stickers!” Christl exclaimed as she looked at the sticker chart on Sandra’s fridge. “The classes at school are all competing to see who can get the most,” Sandra replied. “They’ve already won heaps of neat sports equipment.” I had no idea what they were talking about – yummy stickers? What were they?

The other two mums explained it to me as we stood nibbling left-over pizza and popcorn while the group of kids we taught at church watched a movie in the  lounge. The stickers did look vaguely familiar and then I realised where I had seen them before – on the apples we eat after dinner. What a great way to get kids eating more apples. I was so excited to see a promotion for healthy food that was obviously working. OK, so maybe I’m the only person to get excited about a chart with yummy apple stickers but it sure is a refreshing change from most food ads that our kids get bombarded with. I’m definitely letting my children’s school know about it.

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