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  Food - a fact of life provides a progressive approach to teaching about healthy eating, cooking, food and farming from 3 to 16 years. This site provides a wealth of free resources to stimulate learning, ensuring that consistent and up-to-date messages are delivered.


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MeatandEducation.com publishes a range of secondary teaching resources to meet the different curriculum requirements of Food Technology, Home Economics and the Licence To Cook scheme.

These resources are produced in a variety of formats, including print, video, digital online film clips, interactive games and quiz. The content range is broad but encompasses healthy eating and nutrition, cooking skills and practical food preparation, food manufacture and production. Material is illustrated with red meat industry case studies MeatandEducation.com publishes a range of secondary teaching resources to meet the different curriculum requirements of Food Technology, Home Economics and the Licence To Cook scheme.

These resources are produced in a variety of formats, including print, video, digital online film clips, interactive games and quiz. The content range is broad but encompasses healthy eating and nutrition, cooking skills and practical food preparation, food manufacture and production. Material is illustrated with red meat industry case studies

The Grain Chain website http://www.grainchain.com/ is a user-friendly multimedia resource which offers children a fun way to learn about healthy eating and gain an insight into the 'field to fork' cycle of how wheat is grown and used to produce the food we eat. Developed with input from teachers, this latest learning resource for Key Stage 1 - 4 can be used both in the home classroom and at home. It offers visual, up-to-date materials including activity sheets, games and quizzes, and a range of free educational posters and resources are available to order online.

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All the resources can be obtained by visiting  http://www.meatandeducation.com/

Meat & Education news can be downloaded from here (PDF).

Grain Chain website

The Grain Chain website http://www.grainchain.com/ is a user-friendly multimedia resource which offers children a fun way to learn about healthy eating and gain an insight into the 'field to fork' cycle of how wheat is grown and used to produce the food we eat.

Developed with input from teachers, this latest learning resource for Key Stage 1 - 4 can be used both in the home classroom and at home. It offers visual, up-to-date materials including activity sheets, games and quizzes, and a range of free educational posters and resources are available to order online.

food dudes logoWhat is Food Dudes and how does it work?

The Food Dudes Healthy Eating Programme for Primary schools changes children's eating habits for life. With growing concerns around childhood obesity caused by unhealthy diet and lifestyle, the Food Dudes programme works by motivating young children to include fruit and vegetables in their daily diet, both in school and at home.  By repeatedly tasting different fruit and vegetables, children discover that they like these foods and soon feel the benefits of healthy eating. The Programme complements the current National School Fruit and Veg, and free milk schemes for Key Stage 1 pupils.

Designed by psychologists at Bangor University, the programme uses three fundamental psychological principles - 'the 3 Rs' - Reinforcement; Role-modelling and Rewards, to bring about long-lasting behaviour change.  Food Dudes has generated great interest lately due to the Government funded National rollout in Ireland, and the success of the regional rollout to every primary school in Wolverhampton. The Department of Health is also currently funding pilot studies in Bedfordshire and Yorkshire.

What does Food Dudes involve?
There are three phases to the Programme:

Initially, children are given fruit and vegetables to eat with their morning milk, whilst watching DVD adventures featuring the Food Dudes, a group of positive role-model children. The Food Dudes eat fruit and vegetables every day, which gives them super-powered energy to help them defeat the Junk Punks, who are trying to deprive the world of healthy food. During this first phase (which lasts sixteen days), rewards are given each day to children who successfully eat fruit and vegetables in school and at home. In Phase 2, the focus switches to lunchtime, where children continue to be rewarded for eating fruit and vegetables as part of their school meal or packed lunch.  Phase 3 requires the school to maintain motivation by encouraging the children to continue eating fruit and vegetables in the school dining hall and at snacktime.  

For more information contact the National Food Dudes Project Coordinator, Pauline Milne on 01248-388534 or email p.a.milne@bangor.ac.uk or visit our website http://www.fooddudes.co.uk/.

Sponsors include: Horticultural Development Company (HDC) School Food Trust, NHS, Worshipful Company of Fruiterers.


Government sites


General interest sites

Healthy Eating sites

  • What's on your plate?
    The campaign for Scottish food and farming.
  • www.phunkyfoods.co.uk
    PhunkyFoods is a comprehensive healthy eating and physical activity programme to teach primary school children key healthy eating and physical activity messages through art, drama, music, play and hands on food experience. The six year programme was designed by health professionals and comes with all the resources and training needed to run the programme in schools.
  • www.purelynutrition.com
    Purely Nutrition's aim is to provide high quality, evidence-based nutritional advice in a practical, clear and consistent manner, and at all times to seek to maintain the highest standards of professionalism and scientific integrity in line with the Nutrition Society's statement of professional conduct. Purely Nutrition provides a one-stop shop for all your nutritional needs. They aim to be the first port of call for anyone needing reliable, unbiased, credible and up-to-date nutrition services.
  • www.healthyschools.gov.uk
  • www.cheeseboard.co.uk
  • www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk
  • www.healthpromotingschools.co.uk
  • www.healtheschool.org.uk

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