Some food ideas sent by someone who didnt sign there name.. thanks anyway
stained glass window Cookie
simply make up your favourite biscuit recipe, make it into whatever shapes you want, cows, people, circles, anything really.
then in the centre, cut out a hole while uncooked and on the baking tray and place in the hole half a boiled sweet. pop in the oven as normal and bake, allow to cool and u have a cool looking stained glass cookie
Fruit tasting
To help you explore issues of food around the world here is a fruit tasting idea
Get some fruits that your groups may not have tasted before and cut them up and present then to the group, getting the group to help with this is a cool idea.
Allow people to taste the fruit and talk about how it feels, smells and tastes etc. having info on hand about the countries where the fruit is produced is a good idea, you could look at the cost of bringing fruit from other parts of the world, the cost to the environment in the producing countries, mono cultures etc. Also you could talk about seasonal foods and is it worth just eating what cam be grown locally?
Spud-fest!
Begin with a baked potato for each person attending, and have the families bring a "pot-luck" assortment of toppings for their spuds. Follow up the lunch with games and relay races using potatoes. (We balanced small red potatoes on teaspoons, pushed russets across the floor with our noses, raced with a spud held between our knees, and created our own potato heads using cut paper and straigt pins to attach facial features.) Prizes included cans of potato soup, coupons for free french fries, and a Mr. Potato head keychain.
Fruit-O-Rama.
each potluck dish sould contain some kind of fruit...we provided a pineapple glazed ham as the main course, and the dishes brought included fruit breads, jello, and salads (both of the all fruit variety, as well as green salads with raisinsor mandarin oranges--or raspberry dressing.) The games that followed the activity included relay races to fill a cup with raisins, catching grapes thrown by your partner in a paper cup, rolling a cantelope across the floor using your head, and balancing a pear on a spoon. We also had a "name that fruit" bilnd taste test (using some more exotic fruits mixed with the ordinary for a challenge), a watermelon seed spitting contest, and a fruit scuplture competition where teams competed to make the most innovative sculpture using two bananas, an apple, some grapes, some cherries, orange slices, and lotsof toothpicks.
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