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3-5 Years
Tasty toast

A recipe to acquire, develop and secure practical food skills such as knife skills, grilling while demonstrating the principles of good food hygiene and safety.

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Tasty Toast

Overview:

3-5 YR
5-7 YR

Complexity

Low
Time

30 mins
Serves

2

Ingredients

4 slices of wholemeal bread

100g reduced-fat soft cheese

Fruit or vegetables to add to the top e.g. banana, strawberries, tomatoes, cucumber

Equipment

Toaster, tongs, chopping board, table knife, plate.

Method

Place the bread in the toaster and set it to toast or place on a grill.
When the bread is toasted, wait for a few moments to allow it to cool slightly and remove using the tongs.
Place the toast on a chopping board.
Spread the soft cheese onto the toast.
Arrange the fruit or vegetables on top.
Cut each slice into quarters and serve on a plate.

Top tips:

Focus on fibre: Try toasting different types of bread such as bagels and crumpets. Choose a wholegrain version to boost the fibre content of the dish.
Turn up the flavour: Try different flavour combinations, e.g. reduced-fat cream cheese and tomatoes or cucumber or peanut butter and banana.
Food skills: Check out our food skills videos to help understand the key skills used in this recipe.

Be ingredient aware!

Check for any food allergy, intolerance, special dietary requirement or religious/cultural reasons for not handling or eating the ingredients in this recipe.

You may need to modify the recipe accordingly. For example, for those with an allergy to gluten, use a gluten-free bread. Be careful for those with a nut allergy do not use peanut butter. Always check food labels for allergens, and suitability for vegetarians and vegans.

For full guidance and up-to-date information on the 14 allergens, please visit the Food Standards Agency (FSA) website.

Nutritional information

This recipe serves four portions based on portion size guidance for 11-18 year olds , if serving to younger children then they may require a smaller portion and if serving to adults, they may require a bit more.

This nutritional analysis is based on a toast with reduced-fat soft cheese and sliced tomatoes.

Why not use the Explore Food calculator, the British Nutrition Foundation's free online nutritional analysis programme, to calculate the nutritional information for other recipes?