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Summary of features of Captain Cook's Tuck Box - cooking with children at school and home with free lesson plans

192 recipes written especially for children, collected in three cookery books for Beginners (ages 5 to 7, Key Stage 1), Juniors (ages 7 to 9, Key Stage 2) and Seniors (ages 9 to 11, Key Stage 2).
120 skills, of which the 64 most important are covered by just 15 basic recipes.
32 videos of children carrying out many of the common cookery tasks.
All children can make their own private cookery book, either by pasting in favourite recipes from the cookery books provided, or by entering their own.
Additional themed cookery books can be created, using recipes provided or parents' or teachers' own recipes. These are available to all users.
Search facility allows quick access to suitable recipes, e.g. recipes which take less than 30 minutes to prepare and cook, recipes without nuts or meat, recipes for parties or barbecues.
Special occasion recipes, e.g. for Mothers' Day, Fathers' Day, Christmas, Easter, Bonfire night, etc. All recipes can be printed out. (A printer must be provided.)
Ingredient quantities can be scaled automatically for 1 to 999 people.
Meal menus can easily be designed and printed out for special occasion meals.

Every user has a Progress Chart, and on completing each of three stages can print out a certificate of progress.
Educational reference library consists of "Dictionary of Food", "Dictionary of Cooking", "Healthy Eating Guidelines", "Healthy menus" and "Safety and Hygiene in the Kitchen".
Fully customisable settings for each individual user, including measurement systems, personal photograph, music and sound effects.
Interactive kitchen clock teaches telling the time.
Tip of the day and joke of the day features on kitchen notice board.
Spoken comments by Captain Cook, an animated parrot who once belonged to a ship's cook. (A sound system must be provided.)
Healthy eating ideas for breakfast, lunch and after-school snacks, presented by a genie who lives in the tuck box.
A Captain Cook birthday card can be printed out on each user's birthday.
Comprehensive on-screen help.

PACKED LUNCH IDEAS

Make sandwiches using different kinds of bread - baps, pitta, bagels, or ordinary sliced. For a change you could fill a small cooked jacket potato. For sandwich fillings use tuna and sweetcorn, peanut butter and desiccated coconut, marmite and cream cheese, turkey and a little low fat mayonnaise, ham and sliced tomato, or lean beef and lettuce. A small mixed salad including crisp lettuce leaves torn up small, grated carrot, strips of red or yellow peppers, sliced mushrooms or celery, and slices of hard boiled egg. "Cheese pasty" and a banana. "Big bite sandwiches" and an apple. Tinned salmon with rice and sliced tomatoes. Pasta salad with cooked red kidney beans or lentils and salad greens. In winter you could try hot baked beans or macaroni cheese in a mini thermos flask with a wide mouth, plus a spoon. For fruit peel a mandarin orange or clementine and wrap it in cling film, slice an apple and dip the slices in lemon juice to stop them going brown and wrap them in cling film, or put in some seedless grapes or a banana. Small packets of nuts or mixed nuts and dried fruit. (It's cheaper to buy a large bag and then put just a few in a re-sealable plastic bag for use each lunch time.) "Sunflower squares". Mini kebabs on cocktail sticks made with pieces of fruit or cheese or meat left-overs. Cherry tomatoes, yogurt-covered raisins from a health food shop, dried fruit, low salt or no salt peanuts. Low fat crisps or pretzels.

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