What’s In My Lunchbox?

Here and There

Part Two

MD 2007Sandwiches - Bread

Sugar

Rice

Banana Rap

Teacher

Where does the bread

in my sandwiches come from?

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Bread is made from flourflourflourflour.

Do you know what flour is made from?

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Flour is made from wheatwheatwheatwheat and wheat is a plantplantplantplant……..

but where does wheat grow?

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Did you guess that wheatwheatwheatwheat is a cropcropcropcrop that grows in fields on farms.

We used to get most of our wheat from North AmericaNorth AmericaNorth AmericaNorth America but now the farmers in our country grow most of the wheat we need to make flour.

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In spring the wheat starts to grow in the farmer’s field.

In the summer when it’s ripe the farmer uses his combine harvester to cut the wheat

The combine separates the stalks from the grain.Sa

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This is what grains of wheat look like.

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Once the wheat has been cut the grains are stored until it’s time to send the best grains to the miller to be ground into flour. The rest is used for animal feed.

Then the flour is sold to factories and bakers and made into bread for your sandwiches.

Link toFUN WITH FLOUR

interactive game

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The flour that comes from a grain of wheatgrain of wheatgrain of wheatgrain of wheat is used for making bread, biscuits and cakes as well as puddings and pies.

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If you have chocolate, cakes or biscuits in your lunchbox you will be eating a lot of sugar!

Where does sugar come

from?

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Sugar comes from sugar beetsugar beetsugar beetsugar beet or from sugar canesugar canesugar canesugar cane.

This is sugar sugar sugar sugar beetbeetbeetbeet. The map shows you where sugar beet is grown.

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Sugar beet is grown in many countries but it grows in our country too. Half of the sugar we eat in sugary foods comes from sugar beet.

Sugar beet is a plant that grows in the soil with only the leaves showing above the soil. Sa

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This is a field of sugar beet ready for harvesting.

Sugar beet is harvested using machinery like this.Sa

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A lot of our sugar beet comes from Norfolk.

Sugar beet is taken to factories like this where the sugar beet is turned into sugar.

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home grown sugar

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The sugar beets are taken to the factory where they are washed and sliced. Then they are spun round in hot water. As they spin the sugar from the beets goes into the water. The sweet liquid is then boiled to make a sugary syrup and then spun again until sugar crystals are made.

To begin with all sugar is brown. It goes to a sugar refinery to be made white. Link

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Half of our sugar comes from sugar beet but the other half of our sugar comes from sugar cane.sugar cane.sugar cane.sugar cane.

Sugar cane is a giant grassgrassgrassgrass. This sugar cane is growing in Queensland, Australia.Australia.Australia.Australia.

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Sugar cane comes from countries where it is hot and has lots of rain.

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This farmer is cutting the cane with a knife.Do you think he works in a poor country or a well off country?

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Sugar cane plants have long woody stalks that grow up from the ground and have a leafy top.

Inside the stalks is a sugary juice.

The sugar cane is cut with a machine like this.

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At the factory the sugary juice is extracted (taken) from the canes and made into sugar.

Once it has been cut, the sugar cane is quickly loaded into trucks and taken to the factory before the sugary juices spoil.

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Sugar cane also grows in IndiaIndiaIndiaIndia.

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A woman gathering the cut sugar cane.

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These workers are cutting sugar cane in ZambiaZambiaZambiaZambia.

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A sugar cane farmer in MalawiMalawiMalawiMalawi.

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You probably won’t have rice like this in your lunchbox but you might eat it at home.

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Chocolate Krispies are made from the Rice Krispies you eat for breakfast.

Rice Krispies are made from ………. ricericericerice!

You might have a Chocolate Krispie in your lunch box or a pot of Muller rice.

Where does rice come from?

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Rice Krispies are made from grains of rice that are cooked, dried and toasted to make them puff up.

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Rice is a plant that was probably first grown in India India India India but now it is grown all over AsiaAsiaAsiaAsia.

Women working in the paddy fields (rice fields) in India.

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Rice growing in ThailandThailandThailandThailand.

It is grown in ‘paddy’ fields.

Thailand

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Then the land is flooded until the water is 1 or 2 cm deep.

First the land is made ready for the rice to be planted. The land has to be flat and level.

The flooded land is left for a few days and then it is ready for ploughing by machinery or by animals like buffaloes.

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The land is ploughed and the seeds are planted either by machine or by hand.

Then the fields are flooded again and the rice plants are left to grow and ripen while the water drains away again.

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When the fields are dry and the rice plants are a golden colour, the plants are cut and cleaned.

This is what the rice looks like when it is sent to the mill to be turned into the rice that we can buy in the shops.

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Bananas, chocolate, sugar and riceCome from hot countries and are very, very nice.Bananas grow in great big bunchesThey come across the seaAnd we eat them for our lunches.All the yummy chocolate bars you have ever seenStarted life as a cocoa bean.

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Where does sugar come from? Let us explain:Sugar beet and sugar cane.The paddy fields of Asia give us lovely riceRice for our dinner is very,very nice.Sugar for breakfast, bananas for tea.Rice… for… dinner … and chocolate for me.

The Banana RapThe Banana RapThe Banana RapThe Banana Rap

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At the sugar beet factory

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Objective:To raise children’s awareness that the food on the supermarket shelf has been grown and harvested by people far away.

CocoaBelizeBoliviaDom.RepublicGhanaParaguayPanama

Fresh fruit and juiceBrazilBurkino FasoChileCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuador EgyptGhanaMoroccoMozambiqueWindward Islands

RiceIndiaThailand

SugarMalawi ParaguayPhilippines

Countries that supply the UK Fairtrade market by product category.

Interactive LinkWhere do crisps

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