Fun Food Fast!

Subject: Food Technology
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 14 - 16
Order Number: 4038

Fun Food Fast! The Survival Guide to Healthy Eating on a Budget

This practical based course aims to encourage young people to get cooking and enjoy healthy food! It would ideally meet the needs of the Governments proposed 'Licence to Cook' course. In addition it has also been used very successfully with sixth form students (16-18 years) as part of a General Studies programme. The course includes a collection of over 35 A4 recipe cards covering soups and accompaniments, main courses, baking and desserts. Together with each recipe is nutritional information, health, money and food safety tips. The recipes include many vegetarian options, which have proved popular. All have been thoroughly tried and tested and can be prepared and cooked in an hour. In addition to the recipes there are a series of handouts covering store cupboard essentials, keeping food safe, budgeting, healthy eating and understanding nutrition labels.

Following this course, students will learn to:

• enjoy cooking and appreciate that cooking your own meals can be easy, fun and far healthier than ready made meals or fast food
• enjoy eating the food they make
• carry out basic food preparation skills and techniques with confidence
• understand and follow basic principles of food hygiene and safety
• understand and apply the basic principles of healthy eating
• appreciate the cost of food and budgeting - cooking for yourself will save money!
• understand the seasonal/local aspect of foods
• appreciate the concept of food miles and fair-trade
• know how to shop for food and study food labels