Welcome to the Young Chef of the Year Award, which your child/children’s school may be delivering this year.
The award covers the Key Stage 2 National Curriculum for ‘Cooking and Nutrition’, develops pupil’s chef skills, encourages food awareness and healthy eating.
The award focuses on pupil’s designing a ‘Meal for their Hero’. The meal includes a soup, main course, dessert and drink within a £10 budget, which they make during week 6.![]()
To support pupils completing the challenge at home you’ll find below recipe videos and cards, which will also be discussed at school.
Have fun supporting your child/children in the kitchen and ‘Let’s get Cooking!
If you’d like further inspiration to get cooking at home you can purchase our book ‘Heat-Free and Healthy’, which contains 40 exciting simple and nutritious heat free recipes including breakfasts, salads, sandwiches, wraps, dips, snacks, desserts and drinks.
With a little help from a Chef and a Scientist
Please use these films and the recipe cards below to try out some different dishes and find out a little about the foods you eat.
A huge thank you to our partners at Rothamsted Enterprises, Rothamsted Research and The Grove Hotel.