An Educator's Resource

A resource kit that provides important information on healthy eating, shopping, cooking and food safety for today's lean pork.

Alberta Pork presents PORK Simple & Easy, which provides important information on healthy eating, shopping, cooking and food safety for today's lean pork.

Who should use PORK Simple & Easy?

  • Food Teachers
  • Dietitians
  • Home Economists
  • Collective Kitchen Coordinators
  • Adult Educators teaching meat cuts, buying and cooking meat, and food safety

PORK Simple & Easy includes:

  • Background Information (additional details for the instructor)
  • Choosing Pork: A Guide to Buying and Cooking Pork (a full colour user-friendly booklet for students; includes 1 class set of 25)
  • 5 student activities (designed to match various CTS Curriculum)
  • 10 colour overheads
  • 12 recipes - classroom tested and approved
  • 1 Choosing Pork poster
  • 1 Fresh Canadian Pork Cut chart

This resource was developed with teacher and student input to meet Career and Technology Studies (CTS) curriculum outcomes for the following Foods courses:

With this resource you will have materials that:

  • are Alberta Learning approved
  • are current Canadian-based information
  • can be updated easily
  • provide information on the new nutrition label, classroom approved recipes and a new student booklet.

Here is what teachers have to say about PORK Simple & Easy:

"Easy to read and follow for students and consumers."
"Excellent activities for high school students."
"Thank you! You have done all the work except teach the class!"
"Recipes were easy to read and follow directions."
"Excellent recipes, good price range and kids really enjoyed the recipes."
"With the excellent recipes, the Choosing Pork booklet is super for catching the students interest; then we can go through all the pertinent information students need."

For more information call:
Alberta Pork
403-256-2764