What are the workshops for?
Health advantage
Many children (and many adults, too!) simply don't know how to prepare healthy food, or prepare foods in healthy ways. For instance, if they are not taught proper cooking skills, kids may think that the only way to prepare potatoes is in the form of greasy fries. Learning to cook, they can pick up important information and skills, such as how to make oven fries.
Knowledge about ingredients
Each workshop is designed to challenge children’s ideas about what ‘healthy eating’ means and show them that with just a few small dietary changes we can all lead a healthier lifestyle. We believe this stems from giving children the knowledge about the ingredients they are putting into their bodies and educating them about the long and short term benefits of the ingredients we use in our recipes. We achieve this through the use of interactive games, quizzes and simple conversation.
Confidence in the Kitchen
We strongly believe that one of the catalysts of childhood obesity is the lack of confidence with food. It is far easier to pick up some junk food and it has become daunting to make your own meals. These workshops aim to show children that healthy cooking is not a scary task and that through the process of making your own meals and snacks and enjoying just how delicious they are we can be much more satisfied.
Teamwork
We always stress to our TasteBudds kids that Teamwork is the most important rule in the kitchen. We structure the workshops so that children are working in small groups, sharing the responsibility of the jobs and realising that many jobs are better performed as a team. These skills are applicable way beyond cooking and we believe that this will benefit children a great deal in their future endeavours.
Find your love for healthy food
Ingredients
Nutritional benefits of ingredients in a simple and easy language
Recipe
Step by step procedure using pictures to make it easy
Activity
A quiz or game to make it more engaging and easy to remember
Safety
Although making food is fun, it is quite important to know how to be safe
Skills
Learn to work together in groups and make their favourite food
Eat!
The joy of creating something and consuming along with sense of achievement
Chefs born from our workshops
Addie & Lucas
I liked using the cacao rather than chocolate because its more healthy.
I didn't know you could put avocado in smoothies and it would still taste yummy
Year 2 Children
Jeevan
My daughter has loved going to Tastebudds' workshops and has been so proud of the dishes she's brought home. She's even discovered a love of sweet potatoes. Thank you Tastebudds!
Sarah (TasteBudds after school workshop mum)
Lucas
Addie and Luca have really enjoyed your class & look forward to hopefully joining you again. I am sure like lots of parents it is getting your kids to at least try healthy food once or a food that they have never tried. Luca has never tried an avocado until he came to your class. So you must be doing something right! Addie now loves smoothies and we made one last night.
Melanie (TasteBudds after school workshop mum)
Nancy
We love what you are doing it’s really interesting, we had no idea it would be this good. Its really exciting what you are doing, the protein balls today and the drinks - we are blown away - Lucy's dad say that too. They have so much fun and the recipes are really inspired!!!!!
Bridget (TasteBudds after school workshop mum)
Having Taste Buds come to class took all of the stress out of Primary School Cooking. The recipes were unusual tasty and healthy too. There cooking class really helped to cement the children’s' understanding of reversible and irreversible changes.
Pheobe (Weston Park Year 2 Teacher)
Having Taste Buds come to class took all of the stress out of Primary School Cooking. The recipes were unusual tasty and healthy too. There cooking class really helped to cement the children’s' understanding of reversible and irreversible changes.
Pheobe (Weston Park Year 2 Teacher)
I liked using the cacao rather than chocolate because its more healthy.
I didn't know you could put avocado in smoothies and it would still taste yummy.
Year 2 Children
My daughter has loved going to Tastebudds' workshops and has been so proud of the dishes she's brought home. She's even discovered a love of sweet potatoes. Thank you Tastebudds!
Sarah (TasteBudds after school workshop mum)
Addie and Luca have really enjoyed your class and look forward to hopefully joining you again. I am sure like lots of parents it is getting your kids to at least try healthy food once or a food that they have never tried. Luca has never tried an avocado until he came to your class. So you must be doing something right! Addie now loves smoothies and we made one last night.
Melanie (TasteBudds after school workshop mum)
We love what you are doing it’s really interesting, we had no idea it would be this good. Its really exciting what you are doing, the protein balls today and the drinks - we are blown away - Lucy's dad say that too. They have so much fun and the recipes are really inspired!!!!!
Bridget (TasteBudds after school workshop mum)
Founders
Matt
Joe
Cooking Workshops organised at
Our Lady of Muswell Primary School- Pages Lane, Muswell Hill London, N10 1PS
St James’ Primary School- Woodside avenue, Muswell Hill London, N10 3JA
The Mulberry Primary School – Parkhurst Road, Tottenham, London, N17 9RB
Rising Stars Activities summer camp at Whitefield primary school – Claremont Road, London, NW2 1TR
Weston Park Primary SChool- Denton Road, Crouch End London N8
Workshops coming up
