One of the teachers in our department does a Y9 Plants for Food lesson assembling lunch in front of the class :-) In the past we've seen bread, sunflower margerine, hummous, lettuce, cucumber, celery, tomato, potato salad, banana, apple, grapes and possibly flapjack! (I'm sure you can think of more suitable things). You can talk about what bit of the plant is eaten (i.e. fruit, seed, stem, tuber etc). Gets them to realise that lots of food is plant based.

One of the teachers in our department does a Y9 Plants for Food lesson assembling lunch in front of the class :-) In the past we've seen bread, sunflower margerine, hummous, lettuce, cucumber, celery, tomato, potato salad, banana, apple, grapes and possibly flapjack! (I'm sure you can think of more suitable things). You can talk about what bit of the plant is eaten (i.e. fruit, seed, stem, tuber etc). Gets them to realise that lots of food is plant based. We've a resource for sixth form that could also be useful (and is easy enough to find anyway) - lots of samples of cereals (plant kind not kellogs!) We've got different flours (wheat, rice and gram flours), pulses (kidney beans, butter beans, lentils, split peas), seeds (oats, wheat, barley, rye), three types of rice (pudding, risotto, long grain) and other oddments (oatmeal, polenta, millet, linseed).