Speak Up, Speak Out from Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

ARCHIVE for HMD2010: The Legacy of Hope

The case studies and related education resources for HMD2010, The Legacy of Hope, have been archived. The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is currently focusing on the theme for this year, Speak Up, Speak Out.

HMD 2010 A challenge for students in Food Technology (Primary)

This is a special challenge for Holocaust Memorial Day 2010. We want you to think about food.

We all know that food is important. We need it to keep us alive and healthy. It gives us energy which we need to play games, take part in sport and have fun.

To be healthy we have to eat enough of the right foods. The first part of your challenge is to find out more about these. You need to find the picture of the “Eat well plate” by visiting http://www.food.gov.uk/images/pagefurniture/eatwellplatelarge.jpg

Draw a copy of the plate and talk to your teacher about what you find on the plate.

Next work with your teacher and make a shopping list for a week of healthy eating for a small family made up of Mum, Dad and their three children Paul and Alice and Janine aged 5, 7 and 9. Your teacher should write the list on the board where everyone can see it.

Talk together about two meals the family could cook using items on the shopping list you have created.

Now we want you to think of another family. Mum, Dad and their three children David, Judith and Rachel. They lived in Poland during the Holocaust and they were Jewish. When they made plans for meals it was very difficult. The Nazis made rules saying what Jewish people could buy. Food was rationed and Jewish people could only buy certain types of food. Jews were not allowed to buy meat, poultry, fish, fruits, vegetables, eggs, or white flour. Their diet consisted mainly of potatoes and bread.

At first Rachel, Judith and David’s Mum and Dad were allowed to buy 70-250g of bread, 250g sugar/month, a few potatoes and beets (like turnips) half a cabbage and a little jam.

Talk together about two meals the family could cook using only these ingredients.

How does it compare with your modern meal?

Do you think this was a healthy diet? What things are missing from it?

What happens when people don’t eat a healthy diet?

Now we want you to think about the energy which food gives us. Food contains calories and calories give us energy.