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19 December 2023
This autumn, pupils at Oaklands Primary School in Medway got cooking as they spent a lesson making a delicious pumpkin and apple soup.
The pumpkin, which was grown from seed on their teacher’s allotment, was used as part of an autumnal classroom display.
After the display had been enjoyed, pupils didn’t want to see the pumpkin go to waste like so many do each year in the UK. Always conscious of reducing food waste, the apples had been left over from snack time and would also have been wasted otherwise.
After receiving a bundle of equipment and recipes from Food for Life, they decided to use Cook and Share’s Soup Chooser resource to create their own soup. “Making soup is fun, cheap and easy to make,” they explained.
Pupils prepared the ingredients using their knife skills, carefully and safely chopping the pumpkin and apple into cubes using the bridge method. They especially enjoyed blitzing the soup in the blender, with one pupil exclaiming that it “was amazing!”
After the soup was ready, it was shared with others across the school – many who had never tried pumpkin before. “It was a fabulous way to end the week with fresh, homemade soup made from ingredients we already had in school. Sustainable, delicious, and thoroughly enjoyable – we’re already planning the next soup!”
Try making your own soup with our Soup Chooser
Oaklands Primary School is part of the Food for Life programme in Medway which is free for Medway schools.