Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
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
Classroom Activity Ideas and Lesson Plans
Events and Campaigns
Good Websites
Online Games, Videos and Downloadables
Other Useful Bits and Pieces
Recipes
Seasonal Food Lists
Seasonal Growing Jobs
The Foodies Books Support Resources
Tried and Tested - Garden Ideas
Tried and Tested - Healthy Living Ideas
Tried and Tested - Kitchen Ideas
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19/04/2009 10:04:00 Websites For Healthy Eating Background Info
Quite a few sites provide good information on healthy eating for parents and on nutritional teaching for practitioners. Here are some of the websites, or individual parts of websites, which might be useful to those living or working with little ones.
Phunky Foods Factsheets
Phunky Foods have a selection of factsheets for parents on different aspects of food and nutrition - for example food and bone health, salt, e-numbers, vitamins and supplements, omega oils etc.
There are also some good general tips on the same site at http://www.phunkyfoods.co.uk/parents/tips.html
School Food Trust Site
This is the main website for your background information and advice on food policy in school. Good resources and tips on lunchboxes, food standards, working with parents, case studies, funding etc. There are stacks of factual resources, most are downloadable and you have to print off yourself, but some they will send out. Among other things there is a good practical printable seasonal food chart. http://www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk/
Children's Food Campaign
This is a campaign to inform the public about issues practical and political relating to children's food. It's a goldmine of information about labelling, food industry tactics and political intention. For example find out about teaching resources (some of them listed in these listings) created by the food industry and if there is anything you need to be aware of in your use of them. Add your voice to the petitions on food marketing and safety while you are there. http://www.sustainweb.org/childrensfoodcampaign
Change For Life
Change4Life is the new government and NHS campaign to improve wellness and health. It's main (but not only) areas of focus are diet and exercise. There are lots of resources around fit and healthy children, some general information, and some individual practical tips. People can join as individuals or families but you can also join as an organisation and pass on the ideas to the children and families you work with. For signing up you get a pack of resources – posters, playing cards, reusable food stickers and charts, and there is a load of stuff on their website. http://www.nhs.uk/Change4Life
5 A Day
This is the NHS's website to encourage us all to eat more fruit and veg. It's quite a good background checker for information on getting more fruit and veg into the diet. There are sections on children's health, eating fruit and veg on a budget, portion sizes, requirements for different age groups etc. There is also a cute little meal planner tool which gives you some menu suggestions and counts your fruit and veg quota as you choose them.
British Nutrition Foundation
The British Nutrition Foundation website is a very reliable source of information on the basics of nutrition. If you are unsure yourself about the facts, this is a great place to start because you know it will be proven, unbiased and not linked to sales of particular products or lifestyles.
Particularly useful is the explanation of what different nutrients do at http://www.nutrition.org.uk/healthyliving/basics/what-are-nutrients
And there are sections on different diet requirements for different ages - so for example how many servings of starchy foods a pre-schooler should ideally have in a day. The life stages section is at
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