Food for Life
Food for Life Programme
Food for Life brings schools and their surrounding communities together around the core ethos of healthy, tasty and sustainable food.
The programme is about more than just food on the plate; it considers where food comes from and how it’s grown, cooked and experienced.
It is about developing a good food culture by understanding how food is grown, learning about sustainability, making connections with health and the impact we make on the environment, and caring about what we eat and how it was produced or reared.
The more we understand about where our food comes from, how we farm and process it, how we cook and eat it, the more we can build a good food culture, and educate future generations to respect our food, our health and our wider environment.
We are at the start of our journey to achieve the bronze award which will support us in taking on a whole school approach. This approach will see us grow our own food; organise trips to farms; source food from local producers; set up school farmers’ markets; hold community food events; provide cooking and growing clubs for pupils and their families; serve freshly prepared, well-sourced meals and provide an attractive dining environment so lunchtimes are a positive feature of the school day.
Get Your Grownups Growing: Recipe
The eco council have loved seeing all the photos of of coriander being planted and grown.
As the coriander plants are now beginning to grow the eco council thought it would be useful to provide you with a recipe to use the coriander in. They chose 'Micro Green Coriander Salsa which is a very simple and easy to follow recipe.
Enjoy making!
Micro Green Coriander Salsa
You will need:
- 20+ cherry tomatoes 2 chive stalks ( you could swap for half a red onion chopped and diced)
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1-2 tsp chilli powder
- Half lime juice squeezed
- One nice handful of your coriander microgreens
Instructions
Place all the ingredients into a bowl and chop them all up together or place into a blender.
Did you know...
Micro Coriander goes well with avocado, carrots, courgette, tomato, coconut milk, citrus, ginger, mint, lemongrass, chili peppers, yogurt, chicken, lamb, and white fish.
They will keep 5-7 days when stored unwashed, in a sealed container in the refrigerator and should be added only at the very final stage of finishing a dish.
We would love to see more photos of your coriander and any meals, sides or dips you used it in.
"Get Your Grownups Growing"
Throughout April we are encouraging all children to 'Get Your Grownups Growing'.
Growing your own food is a enables us to teach children about where their food comes from and is also a great way of encouraging them to try something new!
Did you know...
Children are much more likely to try a new vegetable (or herb!) if they have grown it themselves!
At the end of March we sent every family in school a 'coriander growing kit' which included everything they needed to plant and grow coriander from a seed.
The eco-council worked hard to create the growing kits themselves. Their production line (and quality control!) worked really well to package the kits and created lots of excitement by passers by!
The eco team took the kits back to their classes and told their fellow pupils all about them.
We are looking forward to hearing all about the planting and growing that goes on throughout April and would love for you to share any photos of how you got on.
Please send photos to class teachers through Seesaw.