Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
The Foodies / Seasonal Stuff
One of the main aims of The Foodies project is to help us all to reconnect with the way our food grows. Supermarkets have given us a "Permanent Global Summertime" which means that we can buy any food at any time of year. Although this is very convenient, foods bought or grown and eaten in season are generally cheaper, less harmful to the environment, contain higher nutritional benefits, and most importantly they almost always taste better.
On this site you will find a variety of seasonally linked items. For quick reference we have provided links to most of them here.
Happy eating!
January
Here is a list of foods in season in January Link
In January you can run a tasting activity with some January seasonal foods. Link
In January children can touch, smell and model five January foods. Link
In January children can also discover how a parsnip grows. Link
Our January Book Of The Month is all about snowmen and parsnips. Here are our activities about snow and ice. Link
February
Here is a list of foods in season in February Link
In February you can run a tasting activity with some February seasonal foods. Link
In February children can touch, smell and model five February foods. Link
In February children can also discover how a cabbage grows. Link
Our February Book of the Month is all about a cabbage and a mouse telling the truth, here are some truth related activities. Link
March
Here is a list of foods in season in March Link
In March you can run a tasting activity with some March seasonal foods. Link
In March children can touch, smell and model five March foods. Link
In March children can also discover how a leek grows. Link
Our March Book of the Month is all about a leek in horrible weather. Here are our weather related activities for this story. Link
In March we also have a lovely leek tart recipe. Link
April
Here is a list of foods in season in April Link
In April you can run a tasting activity with some April seasonal foods. Link
In April children can touch, smell and model five April foods. Link
In April children can also discover how rhubarb grows. Link
Our April Book of the Month is all about rhubarb and getting poorly. Our illness and wellness related activities are here. Link
In April we also have an easy rhubarb cookies recipe. Link
May
Here is a list of foods in season in May Link
In May you can run a tasting activity with some May seasonal foods. Link
In May children can touch, smell and model five May foods. Link
In May children can also discover how a lettuce grows. Link
Our May Book of the Month is all about butterflies and lettuces. For some butterfly related activity ideas click here. Link
June
Here is a list of foods in season in June Link
In June you can run a tasting activity with some June seasonal foods. Link
In June children can touch, smell and model five June foods. Link
In June children can also discover how a strawberry grows. Link
Our June Book of the Month is about a strawberry having her birthday. We have put lots of birthday related activities here. Link
In June we also have a great Chilly Berry Tart recipe. Link
July
Here is a list of foods in season in July Link
In July you can run a tasting activity with some July seasonal foods. Link
In July children can touch, smell and model five July foods. Link
In July children can also discover how a tomato grows. Link
Our July Book of the Month is about a tomato learning to say sorry. Here are some activities about kindness and politeness. Link
August
Here is a list of foods in season in August Link
In August you can run a tasting activity with some August seasonal foods. Link
In August children can touch, smell and model five August foods. Link
In August children can also discover how a courgette grows. Link
Our August Book of the Month is about a courgette who keeps measuring himself. Here are our measuring activities. Link
We also have some suggestions for recipes to use up a glut of courgettes in this blog entry Link
September
Here is a list of foods in season in September Link
In September you can run a tasting activity with some September seasonal foods. Link
In September children can touch, smell and model five September foods. Link
In September children can also discover how a blackberry grows. Link
Our September Book of the Month is about a blackberry ripening in the sun. For sun safety activities click here. Link
October
Here is a list of foods in season in October Link
In October you can run a tasting activity with some October seasonal foods. Link
In October children can touch, smell and model five October foods. Link
In October children can also discover how a pumpkin grows. Link
Our October Book of the Month is about a pumpkin learning what makes him special. Some skills and abilities activities. Link
November
Here is a list of foods in season in November Link
In November you can run a tasting activity with some November seasonal foods. Link
In November children can touch, smell and model five November foods. Link
In November children can also discover how a pear grows. Link
Our November Book of the Month is about Pear and friends working on a problem together. Our problem solving activities are here. Link
December
Here is a list of foods in season in December Link
In December you can run a tasting activity with some December seasonal foods. Link
In December children can touch, smell and model five December foods. Link
In December children can also discover how an apple grows. Link
Our December Book of the Month is about an apple surprised by their own reflection. Here's our reflection activities. Link
In December we also have a fab parsnip croquettes recipe. Link