Owners of a Uttoxeter farm shop are going back to school to give
pupils a lesson on how to eat a healthy, nutritious and fun-filled
breakfast.
Rupert and Emma Evans, who run Denstone Hall Farm Shop and
Tearooms, will arm themselves with fruit, a smoothie maker and
novelty toast-cutters when they head to All Saints C of E First
School, in Oak Road, next Wednesday.
Their one-off lesson is taking place as part of National
Farmhouse Breakfast Week, which has adopted the slogan Shake Up
Your Wake Up in a bid to get people thinking how they can make the
most important meal of the day more interesting.
The couple, whose café is also putting on a special
week-long breakfast menu especially for the campaign, believe that
key to the success of the week is getting children involved,
especially since studies show that school pupils work better in
lessons if they have had a healthy start to the day.
Rupert said: "We have a little boy ourselves and know that
finding the time every morning to sit down and eat a meal isn't
always easy, but it's a fact that our bodies need fuel to function
properly.
"Breakfasts don't have to be elaborate and there are so many
wonderful alternatives to the sugar-filled cereals on offer in the
supermarkets, so we're going to be making healthy fruit smoothies,
using cutters to make toast into fun shapes and discovering new
spreads, jams and honey.
"The idea is to show the pupils that breakfast doesn't have to
be boring and hopefully by letting them make their own, they will
realise that breakfast can be delicious as well as nutritious."
National Farmhouse Breakfast Week, which is being held by cereal
growers' organisation HGCA, runs from Monday until Saturday,
January 29, and will see farmers, producers and retailers across
the country getting involved to highlight the wealth of regional
products on offer.
Denstone Hall Farm's special menu, which includes everything
from a full English breakfast to fruit pancakes and Staffordshire
oatcake sizzlers, will be served from 9am until 3.30pm from Tuesday
until Saturday.