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Food - a fact of life

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Free resources for teaching young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating.

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Free resources for teaching young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating.
Pleasing Pasta Session
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Pleasing Pasta Session

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The aim of this session is to help children understand that there are many different types of pasta. Pasta can be used to make many different types of meals. The main activity ‘Have a go’, involves children creating a cold pasta salad by preparing and mixing the ingredients together.
Pleasing Pasta Session
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Pleasing Pasta Session

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The aim of this session is to help children understand that there are many different types of pasta. Pasta can be used to make many different types of meals. The main activity ‘Have a go’, involves children creating a cold pasta salad by preparing and mixing the ingredients together.
Brilliant Bread Session
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Brilliant Bread Session

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The aim of this session is to help children understand that bread is eaten all over the world in different forms. The main activity, ‘Have a go’, involves children making their own bread and developing their kneading and shaping skills.
Perfect Plant Salad Session
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Perfect Plant Salad Session

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The aim of this session is to help children understand that lots of the foods we eat are grown and come from plants. The main activity, ‘Have a go’, involves the children learning how to make a crunchy vegetable salad and develop their cutting and grating skills.
Testing Foods for Starch
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Testing Foods for Starch

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This is a simple test which shows whether food contains starch. When iodine solution is mixed with starch it turns from brown to dark blue. As this happens with very small amounts of starch, iodine test is a sensitive one.