Let's make a potato salad

Cooking and nutrition

Plant or animal?

Food sources

This unit explores food from plants and animals. Pupils sort food into plant and animal sources, and name a range of food from each source. This learning is extended through making a potato salad, highlighting the food source of each ingredient.

Food from plants and animals

Physical activity and equipment requiring safe use

Use of ingredients which may contain allergens.

Risk assessment required - may contain allergens

Use of equipment that may require supervision for safety, e.g. scissors in KS1, needles, paint, knives, cooking.

True or false? We need to measure the ingredients for a recipe.

Stir the potatoes and spring onion in the yogurt.

Put this potato salad recipe in the correct order.

Let's make a potato salad

Lesson outcome

Content guidance