Mock Shop!

"I explore and discover where foods come from as I choose, prepare and taste different foods." 

"I can use money to pay for items and can work out how much change I should receive."

"When preparing and cooking a variety of foods, I am becoming aware of the journeys which foods make from source to consumer, their seasonality, their local availability and their sustainability." 

(Curriculum for Excellence)

We had a really great learning experience when we visited a local supermarket recently.

• We designed a health packed lunch and estimated how much it would cost to buy. 
• Ms. Stuart gave us our budget and we shopped for our items, we put them through the till and we compared our estimate against the actual cost using our receipts. 
• We visited the different areas of the supermarket, we really liked sticking our hands in the freezer!
• We really enjoyed our tasting session and some of us discovered that our taste buds had changed and that we actually liked the taste of things we didn't like before, like water!
• We also designed a packed lunch full of food we thought was produced in Orkney and Ann from the supermarket tried to find these foods.

Boys and Girls, what food produced in Orkney could you buy from the local supermarket for your Orkney Packed Lunch?