A healthy diet is made up from a variety and balance of different foods and drinks, as depicted in the eatwell plate. This section provides you with detailed teaching plans for Key Fact 2, including links to all the downloadable resources. This is a worksheet for children to record their work.

Arrange a visit local supermarket, find foods from given pictures and record information about them. Talk to a shop manager and encourage the children to ask questions, e.g. where does the food come from. Give children a Food treasure hunt Worksheet to record their findings.

A UK map for drawing the origins of food.

A healthy shepherds pie recipe.

A healthy coleslaw recipe.

A step by step recipe guide for Fish Pie.

A recipe for Parmesan Chicken Nuggets.

A fruit salad recipe.

A healthy blueberry muffins recipe.

In this story, Mrs Begum’s class learn about where potatoes come from by growing their own potato plant in a bucket. Includes worksheet for sequencing the stage of growth.

A healthy samosa recipe.

Talk to the class about their favourite foods and why they like them. Use this powerpoint to support discussion. Ask the children about foods they do not like and ask for their reasons. Encourage the use of new vocabulary and use of all the senses, i.e. sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste.

Use the Energy Cards to introduce the concept that different types of foods provide different amounts of energy.

This section provides information to help teach about the digestion of food.

List four of your favourite activities and draw a picture for each. Do you and your classmates like the same activities? Which activities use the most/least energy?

This section provides information to help teach about food processing.

A step by step recipe guide to making chicken pie.

Cards showing different types of meals.

A step by step guide to making a fruit crumble.

A chart to show how much energy is used up doing different everyday activities. Follow the link for lesson plans.