Space Menu

 This week year 6's have been finalising their menus to send to Tim Peake, an astronaut going to space. Year 6's are competing with other year 6's around England to try and win the chance to make the meal with Heston blumintile so it is suitable to go into space with Tim. In our group we have Mia, Abi, Steph and Hollie, I'm doing the starter, Hollie and Steph are doing the main and Abi and Mia are making the desert. For the starter we are having Fish Cakes, for the main traditional cottage pie and for the desert strawberry frozen yoghurt with grated dark chocolate. We put lots of thought into making our dishes suitable for space like fish cakes are normally coated in breadcrumbs but breadcrumbs can't go into space as they could go into the machinery or up astronauts noses so we had the idea to put the breadcrumbs in the mixture and fry them so that they are no longer able to float. We have 6 fish cakes two of each type of fish, prawn, salmon and tuna so they are very protein rich. In the main there is four different vegetables, onion, parsnips , carrots and peas which is nearly your 5 a day in one meal. The desert does have fats but they are healthier fats. Instead of using white chocolate which traditionally goes with strawberries we decided use dark chocolate the healthiest type of chocolate we are also using 0% fat greek style yoghurt which is a good source of dairy and also very healthy. Our group is making our meal on Friday (tomorrow)and we are really looking forward to it. We will make it up in friendly faces. Whilst the other groups have been making their dishes we have been making our screens and the video which can only be up to 2 minutes long.

By Georgia