What is a food journey?
Before you tuck into your favourite dinner have you ever stopped to wonder… where did all this food come from?
If food could talk, it would tell you interesting stories about the amazing journey it made to get to your plate. Every food has a different story to tell.
In this article you can learn:
- what a food journey is
- where milk comes from
- how bread is made
This resource is suitable for Health and Wellbeing for primary school learners.
Video - Food journeys
In this video, we learn about food journeys as the Great Spoon explains where milk and bread come from.
Find out where milk and bread come from.
MILK What is this place? Where am I?
BREAD Nae idea. I’m as confused as you.
MILK Who am I? Why am I?
THE GREAT SPOON Everything is fine, milk.
MILK Who are you calling meeeeelkk?
THE GREAT SPOON You. You are milk!
MILK What?
THE GREAT SPOON I am the Great Spoon. Don’t you remember how you got here?
MILK Oh…Oh! Oh!!! No…
THE GREAT SPOON Don’t you remember the supermarket? The delivery van? The dairy factory? The cow?
MILK Cow?! Where? Hide!
THE GREAT SPOON Let's go back to the start…In the beginning, there was grass.
MILK Ooh, that's nice… Relaxing.
THE GREAT SPOON The grass was eaten by a cow.
MILK GASPS
THE GREAT SPOON Inside the cow, that grass was turned into milk. A farmer milked that cow using sucking machines and then collected the milk in a big, cold tank called a vat. After that milk was…pasteurized.
MILK Pasteur-what?
THE GREAT SPOON Pasteurised. You were heated to kill off any nasty bacteria and then cooled down to keep you fresh. It’s nothing to worry about!
MILK Aah…
CHEESE I went through it and honestly, it wasn’t that bad. At least you weren’t curdled with acid, drained of your liquid and turned into cheese…
MILK GASPS
THE GREAT SPOON Actually, the journey of milk is really quite fun - you go on this cool ride that spins you round and round to separate the cream.
CHEESE Then you slide into a bottle… Wheeeeeeee! Ride in a van to the supermarket…
THE GREAT SPOON And then someone special picks you up and takes you home.
MILK Ooh! I remember now.
BREAD Um. Excuse me, the Great Spoon? What about me?
THE GREAT SPOON You are bread. Just like milk, bread starts in a farmer’s field. In the beginning, there was wheat…
MILK Is there a cow?
THE GREAT SPOON No cow.
MILK Oh, phew!
THE GREAT SPOON Wheat grain was harvested then taken to a factory and ground up into flour. Then the flour was taken to a bakery, mixed with yeast, water and other tasty ingredients to become a gloopy mixture called dough. Then you were baked in an oven, packaged, driven to the supermarket, bought and brought here.
BREAD Amazing!
MILK We’ve had incredible journeys.
BREAD I can’t believe it’s all over.
THE GREAT SPOON It’s not all over.
BREAD No?
THE GREAT SPOON Pals… you're breakfast.
ALL CHEER
Interesting words about food journeys
- pasteurise – To heat at a very high temperature to kill germs
- vat – A large tank into which milk is poured
- wheat – A cereal grain which is grown in large numbers in fields and can be turned into flour
- harvest – When the farmer gathers crops from the field. Farmers use a machine called a combine harvester to collect the grain from wheat plants
- dough – A soft mixture made from flour, water and yeast. Dough can be moulded and baked to make bread
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