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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Learn about nutrition and having a balanced diet with fruit, vegetables, proteins and carbohydrates. Can the children make up cool names for them or poems to help them remember? |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Learn about ancient traditions of food where you live - what did people eat before there were shops with food from all over the world? |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Find out about how far your food travels before you eat it (go to a supermarket and find out the countries where the ingredients for a meal came from) calculate how many miles were in your meal. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Learn how to read a recipe by practicing together. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Identify less common vegetables and fruits available in the local environment, including ones which grow wildly e.g. nettles, cuckoo flower, etc. |
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Preparing food |
Planning and using harvests which are grown or foraged |
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Learn what food miles are, what effect they have on the environment, and why it's good to buy local food |
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Preparing food |
Planning and using harvests which are grown or foraged |
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Taste food from other cultures (can you involve parents in helping with this?) |
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Preparing food |
Planning and using harvests which are grown or foraged |
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Experience community cooking and eating. |
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Preparing food |
Planning and using harvests which are grown or foraged |
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Make ferments/dry/use local traditions to preserve harvested or foraged produce. |
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Preparing food |
Planning and using harvests which are grown or foraged |
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Organise a harvest celebration and sell foods made from the garden. |
