Wondering about Christmas Dinner
Christmas Dinners in New Zealand
We read about the Lush family having Christmas dinner in 1851.
We wondered:
What do we eat at Christmas Time? Is it the same or different to what the Lush family had?
| Christmas Dinner |
1851 Lush Family |
2015 Class7 Children |
| Vegetables |
green peas new potatoes |
peas broccoli kumera potatoes salad; cucumber, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots asparagus |
| Meat |
ham fowl (chicken?) beef |
turkey chicken sushi sausages we have tomato sauce or gravy on our meat |
| Desert |
apple tart custard plum pudding |
apple tart custard plum pudding fruit salad with apples, pears, grapes, pineapple, banana strawberries with chocolate icecream chocolate pudding chocolate mudcake pavalova trifle |
We noticed:
- We have some foods the same as the Lush family.
- We have more food choices than the Lush family.
- We have food that comes from lots of different places in the world.
We thought the differences might be because:
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We have more markets and shops to buy our food in and the Lush family had to grow their own food. Mr Lush said they didn’t have strawberries but they were going to grow some for next year. Some of us like growing strawberries too but we can also buy them at the supermarket so we can always choose to eat strawberries for Christmas if we want to.
- We have more ways of storing food like a fridge, freezer, and tins. This means we can have some foods when they are not growing in our garden.
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There are lots of different ways of traveling now like flying that is faster than the big ships the Lush family would have had so food can come from other places quickly and it is still good to eat when it gets here.
- Because it is easy to travel, we know about food from different countries. We can go places to try new food and we can learn how to make it.
- We have the internet so we can see pictures of food, use an internet cookbook and watch videos on Youtube to find out how to make different kinds of foods.