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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.
Healthy eating - Food is a basic requirement of life
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Healthy eating - Food is a basic requirement of life

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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 ‘that food is a basic requirement of life and we need food to grow, be active and maintain health.
Where food comes from - Food is processed
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Where food comes from - Food is processed

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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 ‘Food and farming: Key fact two - Food is processed on different levels to make it edible and safe’.
The bread stories
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The bread stories

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In this story the Food investigators learn about breads from different countries and make their own different shaped bread rolls.
The bread stories- getting ready to cook
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The bread stories- getting ready to cook

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In this story the Food investigators learn about breads from different countries and make their own different shaped bread rolls. Includes worksheet for making a poster to explain what to do when preparing to cook.
License to Cook - Session 9: Pasta mania
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License to Cook - Session 9: Pasta mania

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This session is about making a savoury sauce and combining it with pasta to make a simple dish. Students start to prepare and cook items simultaneously, learning about timing and kitchen organisation. The session gets the students to use the hob and the grill, as well as other pieces of familiar equipment. If your students have not covered session 7 layered pasta salad, then this session will be more challenging. This session also provides you with the opportunity to assess student practical capability. You could use the practical observation sheet to help.
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: 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.