We all recognise the importance of being able to prepare a meal from scratch. Cooking helps build self esteem and encourages kids to eat sensibly.

Back in January 2008, the Secretary for State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls announced that cookery lessons would be made compulsory for 11-14 year olds. He commented: “Leaving school being able to cook healthy dishes from scratch is an essential everyday skill all young people should have.”

As a result, cooking is well and truly back on the curriculum.

This section of the website has been designed specifically to help encourage kids cook delicious, nutritious meals from scratch.

We hope you find it useful.
Don’t forget to sign your school up and you could be in with the chance of winning a visit from Phil along with free larder supplies from Aldi for the school year.

Register your school, upload your recipes and find out what’s going on in your area and how you can get involved.

We've put together teaching packs for Key Stage 2 and 3 to help you along the way.

We have lots of resources to help your pupils get cooking in the classroom and you can also find out how you could win a visit from Phil for your school.

This year we’ve given 28 very lucky schools across the UK delicious larder supplies from Aldi completely free of charge.