Eating Well: Exploring the Food Pyramid

Eating Well: Exploring the Food Pyramid

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will understand the importance of a balanced diet and be able to create a balanced breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu using the food pyramid.

What do you already know about the importance of a balanced diet and the food pyramid?

Introduction

Discuss the importance of a balanced diet for overall health and well-being. Explain how the food pyramid from safefood.net can guide us in making healthy food choices.

Food Pyramid Levels

Explore each level of the food pyramid: grains, fruits and vegetables, dairy, protein, and fats/oils. Discuss the recommended serving sizes and benefits of each food group.

Creating a Balanced Breakfast

Provide examples of foods from each food group that can make up a balanced breakfast. Discuss the importance of including a variety of nutrients in the morning meal.

Creating a Balanced Lunch

Suggest foods from each food group that can be included in a balanced lunch. Highlight the importance of including different colors and textures for a well-rounded meal.

Creating a Balanced Dinner

Discuss food choices from each food group for a balanced dinner. Emphasize the importance of portion sizes and cooking methods that retain nutrients.

Putting It All Together

Provide students with a blank menu template and challenge them to create a balanced breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu using the food pyramid as a guide.

Conclusion

Recap the importance of a balanced diet and the role of the food pyramid in making healthy food choices. Encourage students to continue practicing balanced eating habits.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.