{"id":593,"date":"2021-09-10T17:26:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/?p=593"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:26:04","slug":"food-tasting-06-09-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/food-tasting-06-09-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Food tasting 06\/09\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We have been exploring foods that grow above and below the ground.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\ud83d\ude0b\ud83c\udf4f\ud83e\udd55<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We chopped and tasted apricots, pears, carrots, apples, tomatoes to name but a few<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\ud83c\udf4e\ud83e\udd55\ud83c\udf51\ud83c\udf45\ud83c\udf50<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and used our senses to smell a variety of herbs including sage, basil, parsley and rosemary!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We talked about the health benefits of such foods and used our senses to look, touch, smell and taste! Our kitchen smelt so lovely! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We were very risk aware using the blunt knives and completed our own risk assessment prior to using them. We talked about how to keep ourselves and our nursery friends safe when cutting, slicing and chopping. Brilliant!<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4c\ud83d\ude4c\u2764\ufe0f<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We used ceramic tiles and felt tips to record whether or not we liked the taste of each food. The children came up with the great idea of drawing a smiley or sad face if they liked\/disliked the food!<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\ud83d\ude03\u2639\ufe0f<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Genius!<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2764\ufe0f<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-594\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/files\/2021\/09\/AB4ABEA1-40D8-400A-83B0-113F795F4C8B-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-595\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/files\/2021\/09\/198435F6-53C2-47DE-9BD2-0ADCA6869E5F-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Wednesday we made our own play dough and chopped herbs to add to it! There was lots of smelling, touching, rolling and moulding!<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\ud83d\ude00<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Rong very kindly brought in some plums from her tree for us to taste! They were delicious!<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\ud83d\ude0b<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-596\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/files\/2021\/09\/970074EE-37DD-4CB5-B3E9-F1AC477FD081-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-597\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/files\/2021\/09\/F1FBD783-AA4C-4CB2-B42C-9A25A5FBA17E-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Later on in the week it was time to put on our Chef\u2019s attire! We made fresh fruit salad.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\ud83c\udf4f\ud83c\udf50\ud83c\udf51\ud83c\udf4e<\/span><span class=\"s1\">We were very careful when using the knives and discussed the importance of hand hygiene prior to handling the fruit.What a super week in our courtyard kitchen!<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\udc4f<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-598\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/files\/2021\/09\/7A0E7719-FDDE-45D3-8AF4-841BA6AEA259-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-599\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/files\/2021\/09\/A48F76E5-7841-4E05-96F4-1DA82E48363D-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been exploring foods that grow above and below the ground.\ud83d\ude0b\ud83c\udf4f\ud83e\udd55 We chopped and tasted apricots, pears, carrots, apples, tomatoes to name but a few\ud83c\udf4e\ud83e\udd55\ud83c\udf51\ud83c\udf45\ud83c\udf50 and used our senses to smell a variety of herbs including sage, basil, parsley and rosemary! We talked about the health benefits of such foods and used our senses &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/food-tasting-06-09-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Food tasting 06\/09\/21&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}