Individuals need to be able to make their own food choices based on information and knowledge.

People need to discover the importance of food and nutrition to enhance an individuals overall health and well being. People need to be critical about their attitudes and behaviours towards personal eating and enable them to change to healthy eating habits and promote healthier diets.

The Food Pyramid What are the Food Groups? Cereals Breads Potatoes Fruits and Vegetables Cereals Breads Milk Cheese Yoghurt Meat Fish Other

The Food Pyramid What are servings required Cereals Breads Potatoes Fruits and Vegetables 4+ Cereals Breads 6+ Milk Cheese Yoghurt 3+ Meat Fish 2+ Other

What Food Groups can you Identify? Are they a part of your weekly eating plan?

 Collect information about what you eat over a five-day period.  Remember to include all vegetables, breads, meats, dairy and others eaten at each meal and those eaten between meals.

Jake always loved Monday afternoons after school. His favourite snacks were pizza with extra salami and cheese. His mum would leave Jake a healthy salad to eat, but Jake refuses to eat this, what would you suggest that Jake could eat as a healthy snack? What are your Attitudes and Behaviours towards healthy eating? WHAT DO YOU THINK?

For next lesson have your information collected and we will be setting up using Excel. Example as Follows: DAYBreakfastLunchDinnerSnacks 1Snacks 2 MondayToast & JamHam & Cheese SW Steak, Potato Chips, Peas Muesli BarIce-cream and choc topping