Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different ways of preparing foods using a range of cooking actions and a worksheet to select vegetables and cooking actions to use when practise preparing foods to make a range of meals to serve in a cafe.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore different ways of preparing a range of vegetables to use when cooking foods for cafe.

This lesson is part of a design technology scheme of work to get the children to select and combine different ingredients to design and make a range of foods including sandwiches and cakes that can be sold in café in a city location. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.