Deciding on what to cook or eat, whether for yourself or someone else, requires making a number of decisions. These include meal occasion, who will be eating, whether the food will be eaten out or at home, dietary needs, religious, cultural or ethical beliefs, the cost and availability of ingredients; current healthy eating advice and/or personal preferences. Marketing, advertising, promotion, role models and social media may also play a role.
Pupils should be able to identify and take into account the factors that affect planning what to cook.
This area covers:
A presentation exploring the factors that affect food choice.
A worksheet about the factors affecting food choice.
A worksheet about the factors affecting food choice (female)
A worksheet about the factors affecting food choice (male)
The questions and answers from an interactive quiz about the factors affectin...
For information about current healthy eating advice, go to the Healthy eating area. There is also information about applying healthy eating advice in the Cooking for health area.
For further information about dietary needs, go to the Healthy eating area.
Cards to identify ways nutritional needs differ.
A presentation exploring different dietary needs.
A worksheet about different dietary needs.
Case studies to investigate different dietary needs.
The questions and answers from an interactive quiz about different dietary ne...
For more information about quality assured foods that support high standards of welfare, go to the Where food comes from area.
A presentation exploring food as part of religious or cultural observance.
A worksheet about religion and food choice.
A worksheet to identify the food choices associated with religious beliefs.
Religion and food choices fact sheet answers.
The questions and answers from an interactive quiz about religion and food ch...
A presentation exploring religion and food traditions around Europe.
A presentation exploring the moral and ethical reasons for food choice.
A worksheet about the moral and ethical reasons for food choice.
For more information about the availability of ingredients, go to the Where food comes from area.
A presentation exploring the key aspects of cooking on a budget.
An activity to compare the predicted and actual cost of some food.
An activity to investigate sensory perception and the cost of food.
An activity to investigate the amount of money spent on each of the Eatwell G...
An activity to calculate the cost of a recipe and suggest how this could be r...
A worksheet looking at the basic costings.
A worksheet looking at the basic costings of different portions.
A worksheet looking at the basic costings.
For help and support with sensory evaluation tests to determine preferences go to the Ingredients area
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