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Food and Health Resources (1 hour)

Spend some time looking at the vast resources around the area of food and health provided by Education Scotland. Choose two areas and resources that you could use in the classroom.

Please click on the following link for the food resources:

Food Resources

Skill that can be developed from using the resources in the document

Pupils:

independence
skills for life
preparation for adulthood
healthy diets
knowledge of healthy produce/recipes
literacy & numeracy skills
make informed decisions
good choices
the foundations now for future generations

staff:

positive role model- if we expect pupils to either change their diets to have a more balanced diet, this could be a whole school approach where pupils and staff are all trying to have a more balanced diet
awareness of balanced diets
ability to make small changes within classroom/school- this could be by recording how you travel to school, how many pieces of fruit and veg you have ha or recording how many bottles of water in a day.

Learn to make bread. (1 hour)

Have a go at learning to make bread (from scratch). You will find recipes online.

Making bread was a lot easier than I originally thought it was going to be. We thought that we would make soup to go with our wholemeal bread to have a healthy, home-made, nutritious lunch.

Recipe- Bread

Ingredients

500g granary, strong wholewheat or white bread flour (I used granary)
7g sachet fast-action dried yeast
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp clear honey

Method

Tip the flour, yeast and salt into a large bowl and mix together with your hands. Stir 300ml hand-hot water with the oil and honey, then stir into the dry ingredients to make a soft dough.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 5 mins, until the dough no longer feels sticky, sprinkling with a little more flour if you need it.
Oil the loaf tin and put the dough in the tin, pressing it in evenly. Put in a large plastic food bag and leave to rise for 1 hr, until the dough has risen to fill the tin and it no longer springs back when you press it with your finger.
Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Make several slashes across the top of the loaf with a sharp knife, then bake for 30-35 mins until the loaf is risen and golden. Tip it out onto a cooling rack and tap the base of the bread to check it is cooked. It should sound hollow. Leave to cool.

Taken from BBC good food website:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10121/bread-in-four-easy-steps

Recipe- soup

I have made soup before, however I had never made this recipe before but I will certainly be making it again as it was delicious and so easy!

Method

Melt butter into a pan.

Chop onions and pancetta and put in the pan to cook until onions are soft.

Add the stock cubes, lentils and hot water.

Let cook on medium heat for half an hour.

I will definitely be making soup while I am on placement as it is a great way to get in lots of vegetables and is really filling.

Top tip: you can freeze soup if you do not want to eat it all within a couple of days as long as it is thoroughly defrosted before heating it up again.

We did this task before we went to Madras college as we were unaware we were going to be making bread there.

Here are some pictures from out experience in Madras High School