1. Healthy eating and drinking (5-7 years)
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2. What is healthy eating and drinking?
Let’s find out!

3. The Eatwell Guide
The Eatwell Guide shows us what we need to eat and drink to stay healthy.
6-8
a day
What can you see?

4. Fruit and vegetables What can you see here?
Eat at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables every day.

5. Potatoes, bread, rice, pasta and other starchy carbohydrates
What starchy foods can you see here?
Have a starchy food with every meal. Try wholegrain varieties, e.g. wholemeal bread, wholegrain cereal.

6. Beans, pulses, fish, eggs, meat and other proteins
What can you see here?
Have some foods from this group every day.

7. Dairy and alternatives
What can you see here?
Have some foods from this group every day.

8. Oil and spreads
What can you see here?
Eat in small amounts.

9. Drinks What drinks can you see here?
6-8
a day
Have 6-8 drinks every day. Have more if you are active or it is warm.

10. Foods high in fat, salt and sugars
What can you see here?
We do not need foods like these to be healthy.
If eaten, have less often and in small amounts.

11. Follow the Eatwell Guide and have…
at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables every day
a starchy food with every meal
some foods like beans, pulses, fish, eggs and meat every day
some dairy foods (or dairy alternatives) every day
just a small amount of oil or spread
6-8 drinks every day

12. For more information, go to: www.grainchain.com