A Gold Coast school’s taco roll has been crowned the best tuckshop meal in Queensland from a list of finalists with sneaky healthy twists on child-friendly favourites.

Nutrition was packed into each of the seven shortlisted finalists for the Queensland Association of School Tuckshops’ recipes of the year – which included the likes of mac and cheese and two-minute noodles – through various vegetables grated, blended and blitzed into the meals.

The association crowned Coombabah State School’s taco rolls as 2025’s tuckshop recipe of the year.

The judging panel, made from students and Queensland Association of School Tuckshops members, said the recipe was an “obvious winner”.

“The taco roll is everything we love about tacos, but made tuckshop-friendly,” QAST chief executive Keryn O’Neill s

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