Youngsters in Ruthin have been trying their hands at pizza-making as part of three weeks of Food and Fun at ten Denbighshire primary schools. The children were given dough to roll out, tomato sauce a selection of tasty ingredients.
Teaching assistant Marian Chambers said: “Food and Fun has been running for three weeks into the summer holidays and the children have really enjoyed it – we’ve had about 40 of them here most days. We have had plenty of activities including an Olympics themed day with flags of different nations, an Olympic torch and a relay race.
“It’s part of a Welsh Government scheme and the children have breakfast and lunch here and they get the chance to try new and different food as part of a healthy eating programme and they take part in physical activities as well.
“They go home after lunch but some of them have been asking if they can stay all day because they’ve enjoyed it so much. A lot of them have tried food they’ve never had before – some of them have never had pizza – and they also have salads and fruit.”
Harlech Foodservice’s Ursula Scurrah-Price and Britney Loughborough, the local account manager who organises the orders for Ysgol Borthyn and other local schools, hospitals and businesses, oversaw the event and the delivery of the ingredients.
Ursula added: “It’s such a healthy thing to do and helps them learn about the value of good food and the pleasure you can get not just from eating it but from preparing it too.
“It helps them learn about the value of good, healthy ingredients and we have included at least one vegetable in each pizza and ensured they have the right kind of cheese, mozzarella. It’s so important for young people to learn about the value of good food at an early age and to understand and enjoy preparing healthy and tasty meals and hopefully it encourages the whole family to get involved.”