Before you continue

This scheme has been archived. Our revised scheme is aligned to current guidance.
I acknowledge & understand
Visit the new scheme -
Cooking and nutrition: Developing a recipe
Archive

ARCHIVED Year 5: Cooking and nutrition: What could be healthier?

Discovering the farm-to-fork process and comparing the nutritional value of existing sauces before developing a healthier recipe.

Free trial

New statutory RSHE guidance is here. We’re creating our brand new RSE & PSHE scheme ready for September 2026. Learn more
  1. Content archive >
  2. Design and technology > Upper key stage 2 > ARCHIVED Year 5: Cooking and nutrition: What could be healthier?
Bell

This unit is archived. Our revised unit is aligned to current guidance. Visit the new unit

Please note

This unit has now been replaced by the Year 5 unit Cooking and nutrition: Developing a recipe. Kapow no longer updates these lessons, and they may not reflect the national curriculum or current guidance. They remain a permanent part of your subscription and will continue to be available for reference and use. We recommend that you explore the new versions of the lessons.

Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Understand how beef gets from the farm to our plates.
  • Present a subject as a poster with clear information in an easy to read format.
  • Contribute ideas as to what a ‘healthy meal’ means.
  • Notice the nutritional differences between different products and recipes.
  • Recognise nutritional differences between two similar recipes and give some justification as to why this is.
  • Work as a team to amend a bolognese recipe with healthy adaptations.
  • Follow a recipe to produce a healthy bolognese sauce.
  • Design packaging that promotes the ingredients of the bolognese.

Suggested prior learning

ARCHIVED Year 4: Cooking and nutrition: Adapting a recipe

Get started

Lessons

Lesson 1: From farm to fork

View lesson

Lesson 2: What does healthy look like?

View lesson

Lesson 3: Adapting and improving a recipe

View lesson

Lesson 4: Mamma mia! What a tasty, healthy bolognese!

View lesson

Key skills

  • Adapting a traditional recipe,
Lock

This content is for subscribers only. Join for access today.

Join Log in

Key knowledge

  • To understand where meat
Lock

This content is for subscribers only. Join for access today.

Join Log in

Key vocabulary

beef

reared

Lock

This content is for subscribers only. Join for access today.

Join Log in

Related content

    Resources

Unit resources

Padlock
Design and technology

Archived – Knowledge organiser – Y5: What could be healthier?

An engaging summary document for pupils, condensing the learning from this Year 5 Food: What could be healthier? unit into…

View

Cross-curricular opportunities

None relevant to this unit.

Build on the learning

ARCHIVED Year 6: Cooking and nutrition: Come dine with me

Get started

Popular content

Other subjects

Please don’t screenshot or copy images from this page.
Kapow Primary resources are created by teachers and protected by copyright. Copying images or slides into your own presentations (for example using the Snipping Tool) counts as reproducing the resource and isn’t permitted under the Kapow licence.
This resource is being accessed through your school’s Kapow licence.
Thank you for respecting the work of the teachers who create these materials.