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Let's make some veggie snacks

I can make veggie snacks.

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Year 1

Let's make some veggie snacks

I can make veggie snacks.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Before cooking, we need to get ready to cook to be safe and hygienic.
  2. The food skills used to make veggie snacks are cutting with scissors and mixing.
  3. Scissors can be used to cut different fruit and vegetables safely.
  4. After cooking, we need to wash-up equipment, and clean and tidy work surfaces.

Keywords

  • Cutting - to divide food into pieces

  • Mixing - to stir food together

  • Cleaning - to remove dirt and food

Common misconception

Children have to use knives to cut food.

Kitchen scissors can be used to cut a variety of foods. Scissors are generally safer to use.


To help you plan your year 1 cooking and nutrition lesson on: Let's make some veggie snacks, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...

Cut the peppers in half, ready for the pupils - this makes it easier for the pupils. You may wish to show pupils the stalk and seeds inside the pepper. If you have a school garden, peppers could be grown and used. Fresh chives could be grown in the classroom.
Teacher tip

Equipment

For ingredients and equipment, see the recipe in additional materials.

Content guidance

  • Risk assessment required - may contain allergens
  • Risk assessment required - equipment

Supervision

Adult supervision required

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2025), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Lesson video

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4 Questions

Q1.
True or false? Before cooking we need to wear an apron.
Correct answer: True
False
Q2.
What is this?
An image in a quiz
table knife
Correct answer: spoon
fork
Q3.
Which of these can be used for cutting?
Correct answer: table knife
Correct answer: kitchen scissors
spoon
Q4.
Match the following.
Correct Answer:knife,cutting

cutting

Correct Answer:spoon,mixing

mixing

4 Questions

Q1.
True or false? Only a knife can be used to cut food.
True
Correct answer: False
Q2.
Match the correct piece of equipment.
Correct Answer:cutting the red peppers,kitchen scissors

kitchen scissors

Correct Answer:mixing the hummus and yogurt,a spoon

a spoon

Q3.
Why do we wash our hands before we cook?
Correct answer: to be clean
to smell nice
to look nice
Q4.
What do we clean after cooking?
Correct answer: the equipment
the recipe
Correct answer: the work surface

Additional material

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