Would you like useful resources for you and your students about dry peas, beans, lentils, or chickpeas? Pulses are very healthy foods that are versatile for many CTS Foods curricula, including Junior High, Foods 2130 (vegetarian cuisine), 2190 (Grains, legumes, pulses, nuts and seeds), and intermediate and advanced Foods classes. 

Alberta Pulse Growers, representing Alberta farmers growing dry peas, beans, lentils, and chickpeas, is pleased to offer Foods teachers the following classroom resources:

-$25 gift card per class to purchase pulses (dry peas, beans, lentils, and chickpeas)

-Student copies (25) of:

o   Pulse Dips & Salads (2 page recipe sheet)

o   Pulse Main Dishes & Soups (2 page recipe sheet)

o   5 things to do with a can of … [black beans, chickpeas] (2 page)

o   Pulses: Eating your Way to Better Health (brochure outlining health benefits)

o   Peabutter information

-Teacher copy of:

Pulses Cooking with beans, peas, lentils and chickpeas (26 page booklet with pulse types, growing areas, soaking and cooking and 30 recipes)

All the print materials, as well as other recipes, can be viewed here.

Click here for an application form.