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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.
License to Cook - Session 8: Deli-salads
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License to Cook - Session 8: Deli-salads

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This session is about creating a deli-style salad using a range of different ingredients. Students will be presented with the opportunity to cook a range of starchy foods, while simultaneously preparing other ingredients for their salad. This will test their organisational skills in the kitchen. It also challenges students to assemble and present their salad attractively. The session revisits and embeds essential knife skills which were introduced throughout sessions 1-5. It also provides you with the opportunity to assess students’ practical capability.
Healthy eating: People choose different types of food
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Healthy eating: People choose different types of food

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This set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children aged 5-7 years. This section provides you with detailed teaching plans, worksheets and presentations and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘people choose different types of food’.
Healthy eating: Energy
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Healthy eating: Energy

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This set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children aged 7-11 years.
Brilliant baking - Baking recipes for the classroom
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Brilliant baking - Baking recipes for the classroom

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‘This set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children aged 5-7 years . This section provides you with fun baking recipes and includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘Brilliant baking - recipe ideas for the primary classroom’.
Healthy eating - Looking after yourself
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Healthy eating - Looking after yourself

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Created for 7-11 year olds, this set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children.This section provides you with detailed teaching plans, worksheets and presentations and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of ‘Healthy eating - Being active and looking after yourself are important for health’.
The colourful present- being healthy
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The colourful present- being healthy

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In this story, Alisha helps Ronnie put together a colourful fruit and vegetable basket for his Grandma’s birthday. Includes worksheet which link types of food to their health benefits. Follow link to website for interactive white board resource.
The farm visit- thank you email
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The farm visit- thank you email

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In this story Mr Valdez takes the class on a dairy farm visit. They meet Mrs Jenkins, the farmer, and learn about how milk is produced. Includes worksheet for writing a thank you email.