Choosing Healthy Foods

Summary
A lesson about the Food pyramid and Nutrition Facts.

Objectives
• Encourage students to enjoy deciding what to make for dinner.

• Teach them about making choices and planning a balanced meal.

• Encourage students to help shop for ingredients and prepare the meal.

• Teach students to check out food labels to begin understanding what to look for.

Suggested Grades
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade

Excerpt
The Food Guide Pyramid can help us to understand how to eat healthy. The colors represent the five food groups plus fats and oils. The colors stand for:
Orange ? grains
Green ? vegetables
Red ? fruits
Yellow ? fats and oils
Blue ? milk and dairy products
Purple ? meat, beans, fish, and nuts

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