Interactive website carries important messages about the health benefits of eating salads

(11/01/2010)

This Christmas, before you park your kids in front of the TV or spend hours planning days outs, look at the new interactive website that has been designed to be fun while also carrying important messages about the health benefits of eating salads. Christmas is almost here and you know what that means: colder days, long evenings in front of the fire and endless choruses of 'there's nothing to do.'

The www.britishleafysalads.co.uk website has a number of exciting areas for children to explore with a loveable animated character called Lenny Lettuce. There’s a ‘make your own salad’ game called ‘Lenny’s Lunch’ where children can create their own salad and score points towards their 5 a day and the overall healthiness of their dish.

There are some delicious and easy, “no cook”, salad recipes that parents and children can make together. These recipes were devised by Carola Weymouth, who runs the leading UK kids cookery school, Cookie Crumbles.

Other highlights include a downloadable colouring-in sheet, in which Lenny Lettuce stars as a farmer on a salad farm. This has been devised to help teach children where salad comes from and about the natural habitat it grows in. It invites young ones to “spot the hidden wildlife” in the picture as they are colouring it in. There’s also a ‘What Do You Know’ quiz which tests children about their knowledge of salads.

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