Grow a Meal
Workshops
Exciting and stimulating, hands on experience!
promoting out-door learning, supporting the curriculum.
Gardening and getting food to grow can be quite tricky and require lots of resources and teachers time. Cooking projects can be messy and require lots of tidying up. Grow Cook Enjoy’s Grow a meal workshop take the stress out of gardening and cooking projects. We bring everything with us, and provide all resources and parents don’t have to send equipment or ingredients into school. We even provide composable or recyclable container to take bakes home in and we tidy everything away! Concerned about space? We can adapt our workshop to container gardening or any space you have!
We can:
Prepare a growing space
Provide all the resources, equipment and ingredients
Provide expert knowledge
Engage students with outdoor learning activities
Link to the curriculum allowing students to explore how food grows and how to cook with it.
Our Grow a Meal Workshop enables students to see the whole process from gemination to harvest. The children grow at least 3 different plants to be harvested in the summer term and then cook a fabulous recipe.
Pin Wheel Pizza
Recipes include:
Singapore Noodles - great for older children, super chopping skills and stir-frying.
Pasta with nut free pesto - make hand made pasta is a real children’s favourite .
Rainbow Salad - great for little ones, introducing colourful foods and fun shaped vegetables.
Pin Wheel Pizza - a big hit with all children, who enjoy making their own pizza dough.
Vegetable tarts - Using easy to grow vegetables
We cater for all dietary needs, our recipes do not contain nuts. We are registered with the environmental health and have a 5 star hygiene rating. All Staff have DBS and safeguarding training, we have appropriate business insurance.
The children are really proud of what they have made!
We have found that if children cook for themselves they are more likely to try different foods. We teach the importance of good nutrition and being healthy. We look at the origins of food and we make recipes from different countries and cultures such as like pasta, sushi and tacos. We think about where in the world our ingredients grow and how they were transported to us. Recipes are linked to pollinators and we learn how important they are in the food we eat.
““Wow ! What an enlightening, calm and organized experience!
The children came up with a meal they would like to make using the produce they had grown ... small groups picked, cleaned, cut and prepared the food they had grown and turn it into a tasty meal that they wanted to cook and eat. FANTASTIC!!”
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