Food Activities, Ideas & Resources
Recipes from PhunkyFoods
PhunkyFoods is an award-winning early years and primary school programme of healthy lifestyle curriculum activities, lesson plans and resources.
They have put together a selection of warming winter recipes for healthy and affordable food over the winter holidays.
Download the recipe PDF here and scan the QR codes to watch the accompanying step-by-step videos.
Recipes from The Real Nutritionist
Lucy Beynon (The Real Nutritionist) is a qualified Nutritional Therapist who has put together recipes, fun activities and fact sheets for families over the school holidays.
Week 1
The recipe for week 1 is lentil bolognese - download the recipe PDF here.
There is also a home challenge, group activity and fun facts sheet - click the links to download.
Week 2
Week 2's recipe is a rainbow vegetable slice - download the recipe PDF here.
Click the links to download the home challenge, group activity and fun facts sheet for week 2.
Week 3
For week 3, we have some delicious apricot oat muffins - download the recipe PDF here.
There is also a home challenge, group activity and fun facts sheet - click the links to download.
Week 4
This week we have two recipes for some sweet treats - cookie dough bites and tahini brownie balls.
Cookie dough bites: Watch the video on the right and download the recipe PDF here.
Tahini brownie balls: Click to watch the video or download the recipe PDF.
Click to download the week 4 home challenge, group activity and fun facts sheet.
Week 5
This week, we have a selection of recipes to make the perfect picnic, including pastry pinwheels, fruit kebabs and chocolate courgette muffins!
Click the links to download:
- Challenge Worksheet: Plant Foods
- Plant Foods List (needed for this week's challenge)
- Activity Worksheet: Reading Food Labels
- Food Facts: Food Labels.
Zing Somerset
Healthy Breakfast Guide (PDF, 1.3 Mb)
Holiday Meal Mash Up Ideas (PDF, 944 Kb)
3 Ingredient Meals (PDF, 271 Kb)
Healthy Lunchboxes for 5-11 year olds (PDF, 1.4 Mb)
Healthy Lunchboxes For Early Years (PDF, 1.3 Mb)
Community Cook Book
Spark in partnership with Abri, Zing Somerset & YMCA Brunel Group have designed the book with everyone in mind, it contains a range of delicious, nutritious recipes, with a few sweet treats thrown in for good measure! All the ingredients are affordable and can be swapped or adapted to suit different dietary requirements.
