Healthy Eating & Cooking
Healthy Eating and Cooking
Healthy Lunch Boxes
The Cardiff Healthy Schools Team have put together some useful information to support students / parents / carers to prepare healthy packed lunches. The link will take you to hygiene considerations and some easy healthy lunch time recipes.
Get the children involved in making their own lunch!
Food a Fact of Life - British Nutrition Foundation
A wide range of activities about where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating. Resources from ages 3-16. There are currently 54 activities/resources to support remote learning at home. Over the coming week’s further resources and activities will be posted. https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/remote-learning/
Top Marks
A variety of links to activities related to healthy eating (Note: links to English Healthy Schools scheme, not Welsh).
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=healthy%20eating
Change for Life
Includes food facts, recipes, activities, apps, currently has ideas of ‘how to stay healthy at home!’ https://www.nhs.uk/change4life
They have also developed some simple, budget friendly, Lockdown Lunch ideas: https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/recipes/lunch/cheap-lockdown-lunchideas/?fbclid=IwAR3GRb23NB91bjck1IFn4cpwndk6DLOsYsidaMOWVTN01OIV7-SGeO-hEM
Veg Power ‘Get your kids eating more veg’. The website has resources that include downloads, reward charts, lesson plans with printable worksheets and activities. https://vegpower.org.uk/downloads/
Cooking Together Wales
Cooking Together Wales are streaming nutritional and fun cook-along videos. The videos can also be found on their Facebook page - Cooking Together Wales – and via their new Cook-a-long webpage.
There are lots of links to Welsh words that relate to cooking.
https://www.cookingtogether.co.uk/cook-along
The Kids’ Kitchen
The Kids’ Kitchen Facebook page is running free live online cooking sessions for children.
https://www.facebook.com/TheKidsKitchen/
Fair Trade
The resources on this page are suitable for home learning. All of our short films are accompanied by Home Learning Grids, a resource that gives students the choice of eight activities to complete at home. Choose from designing delicious menus, junk modelling and more! These activities are a great way to consolidate learning about Fairtrade.
https://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/resources/type/home-learning/#page-1
BBC Good food - Kids Cooking recipes Over 70 easy recipes for children and young people to get involved with. A wide variety of healthy meals and snacks to encourage children and young people to develop their cooking skills and confidence with food.