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From Shore to Farm Gate. Our 1st Family Foodie Fun Day
So did we make a difference? Did we made an impact on helping children understand more about where their food comes from?Well, a few days on there has been lots of very encouraging feedback from those who attended the first of what will now be an annual, family foodie fun day event. The word on the street from the parents is that yes, we did engage the children through a range of sensory experiences that has ignited an interest and the start of a journey of understanding about the food they eat.On the day, despite a light wind and a few clouds in the sky the weather stayed kind to us as we started our coastal walk directly under the magnificent Forth ...
Cheese from a plant? Now that’s clever.
Tomatoes grow underground, cheese comes from plants and fish fingers are made of chicken.Well, that is according to a large number of the 27,500 children who were recently surveyed by the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF).There were certainly a few gasps of horror here at Tasting Scotland’s HQ and we decided we needed to do something to tie in with 2013 being the Year of Natural Scotland and to help the BNF re-engage children with the origins of their food and the nutritional aspects of eating up their greens, or oranges or reds, for that matter.The survey also reported that 21% of primary children and 18% of secondary school children had never ...
