Full of beans – beans and pulse campaign

Full of Beans – beans and pulse campaign

Full of beans

Are you ready to be full of beans?

Do you know your lentil from your broad bean?

Are you aware of how good beans and pulses are for you and for the world around you?

We are on a mission to help everyone discover how amazing beans and pulses are. They may be small, but they are mighty!

They are super for our bodies, great for the planet, affordable, convenient and delicious too!

The Full of Beans campaign is all about increasing the amount of beans and pulses eaten in schools, in families, and in food businesses.

Our first intervention, which was supported by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme Food Trails project, focused on increasing beans and pulses consumption of up to 4,200 children attending 70 of the Holidays Activities and Food Programme holiday clubs during the 2023 summer holidays.

Children and young people were then challenged to complete the Full of Beans mission during the Easter 2024 holidays.

Other Full of Beans projects are underway, so watch this space.

Resources

We have created many Full of Beans activities and resources to help you discover, explore and celebrate beans and pulses through:

  • growing
  • tasting
  • cooking

The booklets are packed full of fun activities you can do with children and young people in after school clubs, holiday clubs and youth groups.

It gives children and young people the chance to taste and explore beans, as well as learning fun facts about why they are good for our bodies and the planet.

Download the Full of Beans resources:

FOB - Beantastic Activities Kids Club 2024

FOB Cooking Guide Kids Club 2024

FOB Growing Guide Kids Club 2024

FOB Taste Testing Guide Kids Club 2024

Recipes

Check out our Samsung Food communities to find our Full of Beans recipes, produced in collaboration with the British Dietetic Association:

  • sign up for a free Samsung Food account
  • search “FOB”
  • click on the communities tab to see all the different recipe collections

There are many different communities of recipes, from affordable recipes to recipes for large gatherings. See how many different types of recipes you can try and you will be a “legume master” in no time.

Get involved

If you would like to get more involved with the Full of Beans campaign, or deliver Full of Beans interventions in your business, school, children and young people centre – email us at FoodSystemPH@birmingham.gov.uk.

Page last updated: 28 November 2024

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