Cooking Clubs start up at School

Back to school, early mornings, trying to drag children out of bed, thankful I don’t have to make packed lunches and extremely grateful to the person who imported coffee to the UK (so is my husband). Sad about children starting back at school, especially smallest boy who started in recpetion but he’s loving it so that’s good.

Back to cooking club which we run at two seperate schools for 3 different ages of children, reception and year 1, year 2 and 3 and year 5 and 6. So a lot of the children we had at the first session were new to the club and some had never cooked before. We had fun talking about how to wash hands and what to do if you pick your noses…..wash hands……and then the made something yummy to take home whilst in the reception and year one class we did apple tasting with 4 different types of apples.

We had one little boy who said he didn’t like green apples and only ate red ones. By the end of the class he’d tried egremont russetts (dull golden skin) and cox’s and worcester’s, he said they were OK but it was fantastic that he even tried them. the children went home with lovely apple tarts which were greeted with lots of enthusiastic ‘wows’ from parents collecting them and hopes of sharing – not a chance!

Year 2/3 and year 5/6 explored chocolate and where it comes from and how it is turned in to the product we buy off the shelf along with and introduction to Fair Trade. This was accompanied with a warning that they weren’t going to be making sweet items every week and they would be alternating sweet and savoury and we would expect the same enthusiasm with vegetable tasting as we had with chocolate tasting.

It’s great to finish the day and go home with a daft grin on my face which stays there for the rest of the evening, beats commuting into the city every day.

We have a link to the Gateway School website which is one of the schools we run a Cooking Club for and they have some great photos of what we do during the club, have a look.