Year 4 - Cooking and nutrition
Making breakfast muffins
Meal occasions and smart snacks
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Unit Summary
In this unit pupils investigate and make smart snack swaps, as well as explore how the food and drink we consume at home can differ to that eaten outside the home. Pupils plan and make breakfast muffins for their school friends.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use food skills to make breakfast muffins for your school friends.
Key Notes
- Recipes can be modified to better suit an occasion or person, such as breakfast or a party, and friends or grandparents.
- Breakfast muffins can be sweet (containing fruit) or savoury (containing vegetables and/or cheese).
- The food skills used to make breakfast muffins are measuring, grating, mixing, dividing (spooning) and using the oven.
- We can rate how we worked by: being hygienic, following the recipe, working tidily and using food skills.
Vocabulary To Learn
- modify: to make changes
- sweet: a taste like sugar or honey, not sour
- savoury: a salty or spicy taste, not sweet
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Recipes cannot be modified.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Recipes can be modified to better suit an occasion or person, such as breakfast or a party, and friends or grandparents. Breakfast muffins can be sweet (containing fruit) or savoury (containing vegetables and/or cheese).
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'modify'
to make changes.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Recipes cannot be modified. Correction: Recipes can be modified, for different occasions and the needs of people. Ingredients can be changed and other ingredients added.
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