Free Resources for Food Education

Here is a selection of useful resources. 

IDEAS FOR PLANNING LESSONS AND WORKSHOPS

TastEd
An excellent charity that offers free lesson plans around their sensory model of sensory food education.

Get Cooking! Islington Healthy Schools Recipe Book
Hefty book with lots of recipes and practical info for delivering cookery lessons. 

Food A Fact of Life
Wide selection of resources on this webpage. Also see their YouTube Channel. They publish a series of roadmaps, too, which you can print on the strands of 'Cooking', 'Where foods comes from', 'Healthy eating'.

Fun Kitchen - Cookery For Schools
Lots of videos on this YouTube Channel. 

SCHOOLS - CURRICULUM

The National Curriculum for Design & Technology

Food A Fact of Life - Curriculum, qualifications and framework
Scroll to the bottom of this webpage for a useful pdf which outlines characteristics of good practice in food and nutrition education in primary schools and secondary schools.