Plan a school day menu Plan a healthy school breakfast and school hot lunch Grade school Middle school or high school Plan a healthy home breakfast and school sack lunch What can be done to encourage children to consume full lunches at school? How can parents be involved? Consider a full day on the pyramid worksheet – your breakfast and lunch should each include at least 1/3 of the recommended portions http://elook.org/nutrition/ -- use this site to look up the food items you have chosen. Calculate the nutritional values.

What can be done to avoid waste of cafeteria food? What goes in a good sack lunch? Pre-schooler Grade school High school Adults at work

Old Food Pyramid New Food Pyramid at www.mypyramid.gov and http://www.choosemyplate.gov/myplate/index.aspx

What can be done to help obese grade school children? 1. 2. 3. 4.

Some additional information to supplement the links in the class notes http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/usefultools/l/bl_kids_centils.htm http://elook.org/nutrition/ http://www.choosemyplate.gov/ (look in the menu under “For Consumers”) www.murray.k12.ga.us (click on school nutrition in the menu on the right side of screen) www.nutritionaustralia.org http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/