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Cookery Demos
LMC has a team of trained school cookery demonstrators who deliver messages about the nutritional importance of Northern Ireland Farm Quality Assured (NIFQA) beef and lamb, food safety, food hygiene, quality assurance, provenance, and cooking methods. LMC has been supporting the education sector for almost 30 years, through the provision of cookery demonstrations. In recent years, the programme has expanded to include primary and post primary schools.
School Cookery Demonstrations for NI Post Primary Schools
For almost 30 years, LMC has offered free cookery demonstrations to post primary schools across Northern Ireland. These cookery demonstrations are designed to show the versatility and convenience of beef and lamb as well as highlighting their importance within a balanced diet.
LMC’s demonstrators can tailor demonstrations to meet the needs of different year groups, abilities, and other requirements. The cookery demonstrations are designed to be fun and informative, with our demonstrators passing on useful nutritional information and cookery tips.
The demonstrator will cook one recipe containing NIFQA beef or lamb which the pupils will get to taste at the end of the demonstration. Each year we carry out 400 school cookery demonstrations throughout Northern Ireland. You will be notified when booking opens for each academic year. There is high demand for this service; in order to avoid disappointment, complete the electronic booking form as soon as possible after notification.
Our demonstrators can’t wait to visit your school and share the versatility of NIFQA Beef and Lamb with your pupils.
Bookings open September 2025.
School Cookery Demonstrations for NI Primary Schools
Bookings for primary school cookery demonstrations are now fully booked.
The Livestock and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland are delighted to confirm the expansion of its educations programme and offer 150 free cookery demonstrations to primary schools across Northern Ireland. These cookery demonstrations will be available for Key Stage 2 classes and are structured to cover key drivers within the curriculum such as Health and Wellbeing and Care for the Environment. Our expert team of demonstrators will also educate pupils on the farm to fork journey of Northern Ireland Farm Quality Assured Beef and Lamb and explain how our farmers are working hard everyday to produce beef and lamb to the world leading standards that the NIFQAS demands.
Demonstrations will take place within the classroom and will last approximately 40 minutes. The demonstrator will cook one recipe containing NIFQA beef or lamb which pupils will get the opportunity to taste at the end of the demonstration. Demonstrations will be allocated on a first come first serve basis, in order to avoid disappointment complete the electronic booking form below as soon as possible. All confirmed demonstrations must take place between April – June 2025.
When completing the booking form:
- Ensure all fields are completed otherwise the form will not send.
- Demonstrators will only be demonstrating one dish per demonstrations in line with the protocol. They will be in the classroom for the duration of the cookery demonstrations (40 minutes). The demonstration may not use up the entire allocated time slot.
- Discuss with the demonstrator if you need the session tailored to a certain topic and what information you would like covered.
- Please inform us when you are booking of any communication barriers and what support is available from the school.
- If the date of a demonstration has to be changed for a genuine reason please let the LMC demonstrator know as soon as possible.
- Please advise at the time of booking if any of your pupils have allergies. This is also important prior to the demonstration taking place, especially if you know another teacher will be covering your class.
- The teacher must remain in the room and engaged in the demonstration throughout the duration.
Most importantly we hope you and your pupils enjoy the demonstration.