Healthy, Happy, Friendly Eating

The type of food we eat

The food we eat in the UK

is very varied. We have

been influenced by

foreign travel and many of

the foods we eat now

originated from different

countries.

Healthy, Happy, Friendly Eating

• Lets start by looking at what people recognise as traditional Scottish foods.

• Scottish Food and Drink

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• Many of the foods we eat on a weekly basis are from abroad. Do you always stop to consider which countries they are from?

• Look at the images that follow. What are the dishes and where do they come from?

• Are any of them your favourite meal?

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• It doesn’t just stop at what we eat, what about what we drink?

• Where do the following come from?

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• Once upon a time the type of food we ate in Scotland consisted of what we could grow, rear or fish for locally.

• Many people are trying to encourage us to think this way again.

• Eating Seasonal Foods