Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
The Foodies / Resources
These pages are a mixture of our own resources, and those we have found from other people and organisations. Some resources here have been provided by practitioners and parents who have tried and tested them, but you will have to assess for yourself the benefits for your own children and whether it will meet the guidelines you are working with.
Some resources are created by food industries. While they are not allowed to promote intentionally inaccurate information, they will naturally wish to promote their product as the most important part of the diet. However some of the resources they provide are very good when used in context. Wherever I am aware that a resource is industry sponsored I will say so, and you can exercise your common sense in evaluating it.
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Books (5)
Classroom Activity Ideas and Lesson Plans (1)
Farm, Factory and Shop Related Activity Ideas (4)
Food Related Activities (10)
Growing Related Activities (11)
Good Websites (5)
Online Games, Videos and Downloadables (24)
Other Useful Bits and Pieces (9)
Recipes (1)
Places to find recipe collections (7)
Single Recipes (29)
Seasonal Food Lists (12)
The Foodies Books Support Resources (1)
Activities Linked To The Story Themes (12)
Food Related Activities (6)
Tried and Tested - Garden Ideas (12)
Tried and Tested - Healthy Living Ideas (1)
Tried and Tested - Kitchen Ideas (11)
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The Learning Tower - safe step for cooking09/02/2011 14:15:00 The Learning Tower - A Safe Step For Cooking We discovered this brilliant safe step at a toy fair this year. It is designed to let children - from 18 months of age - stand safely at your kitchen worktop height. One of the most anxiety-provoking parts of having kids learn to cook is that they usually have to stand on a step or kneel on a chair to reach the worktop effectively. Often they end up having to stretch to reach things and are not quite at the right heig... Jamie Oliver's TED speech07/09/2010 10:51:00 Jamie Oliver's TED speech One for the adults, but this is Jamie's very inspiring speech at the TED awards, which summarises the problems with childhood obesity and the impact on public health. It's about 20 minutes long, and as you've come to a site about helping children to have a healthy relationship with food, you will think that you can't be surprised by a talk about what is wrong with our food. However the way he puts across some of the points is genuinely frightening but eff... Garden Organic Veg Growing Instruction Cards18/05/2010 14:30:00 Garden Organic Veg Growing Instruction Cards Garden Organic have put their brilliant vegetable growing instruction cards online as a downloadable / printable pdf. Fifty three different vegetables, two sided each, with clear instructions on how to sow, plant, harvest, and a planting calendar for each one. The cards are available at http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/growyourown/Vegetables-comple... Eat Seasonably Interactive Season Chart21/04/2010 21:30:00 Eat Seasonably Interactive Season Chart This brilliant little seasonal chart created by Eat Seasonably allows you to click on a fruit or vegetable and it highlights which months it is in prime season in. Really really simple and COOL. http://eatseasonably.co.uk/what-to-eat-now/calendar/ ... Downloadable Seasonal Food Guide16/03/2010 12:21:00 Seasonal Food Guide The School Food Trust made a useful Seasonal Food Guide to send out to every school in the UK. The chart was devised with school cooks, caterers and industry partners and highlights foods commonly used in school food or foods that are in abundance. You can also download a copy here. ... NHS Five A Day portion size guide04/03/2010 12:42:00 NHS Five A Day Portion Size Guide Most people want to eat their five a day, but what exactly counts as a portion? This reliable NHS printable guide is a good list of portion sizes for fruit, vegetables, including dried and canned foods. It is very hard to find guidance for children's portion sizes as the variables are too great - age, stage and exercise levels, but the broad lines seem to be half the adult portion for pre-schoolers, and then scaling up f... Omega 3 Factsheet02/02/2010 21:16:00 Omega 3 Factsheet Lots of the information around on Omega oils is confusing and geared to adults. This factsheet from the incredibly reliable British Dietetics Association, includes guideline amounts for different children's ages. http://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/0502omega3.pdf ... Healthy Lunchboxes Advice07/07/2009 11:00:00 British Nutrition Foundation Healthy Lunchboxes Information The British Nutrition Foundation produced a great free leaflet for schools to send home to parents with basic helpful guidelines about what makes a healthy lunchbox. It has been so well received that they have run out, but they still provide the leaflet as a pdf and a good poster with some suggestions for menus to download here. ... Phunky Foods Card Games19/06/2009 12:49:00 Phunky Foods Food Playing Cards Top Trump style cards, featuring image of a food (e.g. can of pop, pile of rice, apple), breakdown of energy, sugar, fat and salt in each, and food group. Cards colour coded for different food groups. Suggestions of four games – 1.) Pairs, 2.) Snap, 3.) PhunkyFoods Families and 4.) Top Foods. For matching games, children have to match to the food groups, using the colour or their knowledge of food types. Available to buy at £6.99 from http://www.phunkyfoo... |