Mindful Tasting Adventures Workshop

Overview of Workshop

Teach your students to slow down and focus on the sensory aspects of eating. What does you food look, smell, taste, feel, and sound like? What words best describe it? Introduce the concepts of hunger and satiety to help your students identify and pay attention to the cues from their body. Learn how to guide a fun, mindful tasting routine as your students delight in the sens-ational aspects of eating.

In this workshop, educators will:

• Explore how we use our senses when cooking and eating
• Participate in a tasting and practice leading a tasting
• Gain strategies to helping students acquire vocabulary to describe the sensory aspects of food
• Receive the Food is Elementary lesson to implement with students