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Healthy Eating


Adeyfield School Healthy Food Committee

 

Hi, we are the Adeyfield School Healthy Food Committee,

and we are Sarah-Louise Heron,Daniel Luckett,Scott Crouch and Perpetua Boateng.

We hope to bring healthy eating into Adeyfield School by writing several articles about several aspects of

healthy eating. We want young adults to think about what they’re eating and try to encourage them to eat

healthily. Our articles will be focused on things like salt and sugar, fruit and veg and processed foods.

This is only one of the things that the Healthy Food Committee has on their agenda. Something else we are

planning to do is a fruit tasting stall during the year 11’s parent’s evening to open Adeyfield Schools’ eyes to the

different varieties of fruit. If this is a success then we plan to do fruit tasting with the rest of the schools opening

evenings. Mr Hepburn (our head teacher) said it was “an excellent idea” and is supporting the healthy food

committee all the way.

Article written by Sarah-Louise and Daniel

 

Water Microbes

 

 

 

 

Recently in a science project, one of my friends and I carried out an experiment to test out the

water in the water fountain in our English corridor to see whether Penicillin, Streptomycin,

antiseptic or disinfectant worked better on destroying microbes.  Other groups tested different

substances. But this is what we came up with:

This was the Petri dish with the microbes from the fountain, DISGUSTING!!!

We told our school council organiser and we are now carrying out an experiment with the water

from the water in the staff room. We hope that next year the school council can go deeper into this.

These following pictures are of some more experiments:

Door Handle                                                                  Toilet Seat

               

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skin                                         Finger Prints

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have to add that people sometimes use the toilets as an eating area for a breakfast club, at break and at lunch.

I wonder if they would if they saw these pictures!!

Before you begin to wonder, the purple bit is the disinfectant. On some of them, you can see some discs;

they are the penicillin, streptomycin and the antiseptic. I hope the experiment we are carrying out now will

be as successful, or not!!!

By Daniel, UK.

 

Fricasseé le poulet et poulet de riz

 

Ingredients:

4 boneless chicken breasts

1 pint milk

1 onion

150g mushrooms

40g margarine

40g flour

 1 Lemon

50g fresh or frozen peas

Salt & Pepper

Rice

Herbs

1 Chicken Stock cube

Method:

Chicken Fricasseé

  • Cut and skin the chicken into strips.
  •  Peel and finely chop the onion
  • Wash and slice the mushroom
  • Heat margarine in a saucepan and gently fry chicken, onion and mushrooms until cooked through (about 15 minutes)
  • Add flour and cook (1 minute)
  • Remove from heat and add milk gradually stirring all the time
  • Add peas
  • Cut lemon in half and add the juice of one half
  • Add salt and pepper to taste
  • Simmer gently (15-20 minutes)
  • Taste and add more seasoning if needed

Rice

  • Boil some water and add the chopped stock cube to make chicken stock
  • With a rice cooker, cook the rice using the chicken stock instead of normal water
  • once the rice is cooked, serve in a bowl with chicken Fricasseé on top

 

Food

 

Click to view image detailsDates: My review on dates is……………. I absolutely HATE THEM because they are tasteless and sickly. But if you like squishy, mushy and tasteless, you will

love’em!!!

 

 

 

Guacamole: This dip has a lot of flavours including a small bit of spice and sweetness. I don’t like the combination of flavours, but a lot of people would!

Guacamole

 

 

 

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Garlic and Cheese spread: This item is not very enjoyable. The taste of the garlic and cheese clashed. But try it, you may be surprised!

 

 

Does tea make everything better?

Picture from www.wikipedia.org/wiki/tea

In England when ever you get home the first thing most of us say is “put the kettle on”.

As a country we are obsessed with tea. If something bad has happened we seem to need

a cup of tea. It is our one true remedy and miracle cure.

 

History and origins of Tea

  

 

 

 

Text Box: Map of which counters make tea Picture from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea

 

 

Text Box: The Assam Valley is the largest tea growing area in the world with over 600 tea estates.

 

Tea originally came from Asia where it was drunk on a regular basis and even used by  

some people as a medical herb. Laozi, a famous Chinese philosopher described tea as

“the froth of the liquid jade" and prescribed it an indispensable ingredient to the elixir of

life, a grandiose and prestigious acclamation is ever there was one.

In India there is a place called Assam (The YEC is linked with Assam). Assam is a great

place for getting tea; they are one of the biggest exporters in the world. In England you

can purchase a tea called ‘Assam’ it has a mellow and delicately sophisticated flavour.

 

Percentage of total tea production in 2003 (according to Wikipedia)

Percentage of total tea production in 2003

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Info from http://www.north-east-india.com/assam/assam-tea.html

 

 

Text Box: By Scott Adeyfield school Edited by Miss CraddockText Box: Tea consumption top three countries: - (according to http://hubpages.com/hub/What_Countries_Drink_The_Most_Tea) 1st The UK 2nd Ireland 3rd Newzealand

 

 

 

Text Box: In my opinion tea does not solve every problem but rather gives us a forum in which we can face our problems and worries from a more rational frame of mind. Tea is not a magic elixir but it does have its benefits. Drinking tea will not bring back those we love or clear our debts; it won’t even mend our broken heart. But it does have its benefits. It is a big scary world outside one from which you cannot run and one that quite often leaves us feeling a little cold and lonely. A world in which you have to work or you won’t do well. Tea can be a relief from the stresses of work and a time to relax with your friends and family, when everyone else is moving too fast around you. It is a little warmth in a cup, on a cold winter’s night. By sitting down to tea we can stop and take a look back at everything that is worrying us or making us feel low. Too often people do not do this and their problems overload them and become ‘bigger than life’. So take a break and have a ‘cuppa’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Benefits of tea –(according to http://www.crazyfortea.com/) • strengthen the immune system, • fight disease, • give you more energy, • healthier skin, • slow down the aging process, • enhance mental clarity, • reduce blood pressure, • and much more!

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Why Is Chocolate So Addictive?

 

 

Why do people love chocolate so much? Is it the smell, the taste, the texture or something more?

The best excuse to celebrate Valentine's Day isn't love ­ it's chocolate. While that may not be completely true, the candies are well received by sweethearts everywhere.

After many scientists have tested and examined, they say that chocolate is as addictive a drug. Dr. Bankole says that Chocolate's ingredients have a significant impact on brain chemistry.

We like chocolate, and we want to enjoy it again and again. Our memories create a powerful conditioned response. "Even opening the wrapper and looking at the contents starts your serotonin fibres firing.

 

           By Lindsay Clapperton

 

Jaffa Cake: Cake or Biscuit?

 

One question that may be plaguing people to the point of losing sleep, is whether “Jaffa Cakes” are really cakes or biscuits?

The name may be Jaffa Cake, but they have many biscuit like qualities. They’re small and the same shape as most biscuits, and they also have a layer of chocolate on the top as chocolate digestives do.

However there is also a long list of cake qualities; the Jaffa Cake has a filling, like a many cakes do. They also have a spongy texture on the bottom half and after being left out for a while go hard like cakes.

This argument has been taken to court, when Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise argued that Jaffa Cakes were biscuits. To prove that Jaffa Cakes are cakes, McVitie’s made a giant Jaffa Cake to prove they were nothing more than mini cakes.

The argument resurfaced in an article in the ‘Journal of Unlikely Science’ which analyzed various features of biscuits and proved that Jaffa Cakes are actually biscuits, or ‘pseudo biscuits’. Many people still think they are cakes, but what you think they are is completely up to you.

 Jaffa Cake – Biscuit or Cake?

By Rory O’Connor, Daryl Graddon and Dean Rielly, Adeyfield School.

 

 
     
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