Food Groups

In Science and Health we have been learning about the different food groups.

We learnt that there are 5 food groups. They are Grains, Fruit and Vegetables, Milk Products, Meat/Egg/Nuts, and the Fats/Oils/Sugars group.

We get different things that our body needs from the groups. Meat gives us protein which makes our bodies strong, milk gives us calcium which makes our teeth strong, grains give us carbohydrates which gives us energy and helps us run around. Fruit and Vegetables give us all kinds of vitamins and minerals which keeps us from getting sick.

We made food pyramids to help us understand how to have a healthy diet.

Salama's Food Pyramid

While making our food pyramid we learnt where the food we eat goes. We learnt that rice is a grain and cheese is made from milk. We learnt that lollies and chocolate belong in the fats and sugars group and that we shouldn't eat them too much.

We had a food project. We had to use our food pyramid and work in a group to create a healthy day of eating. We had to plan breakfast, lunch and dinner. After we finished our menu, we had to make our meals out of paper.

Preparing their meals.

 After we made our meals we had to score other groups meals and decide if they were healthy or not. We checked if they had enough food from each of the five groups and we made sure they didn't have too much of any of the groups especially the fats, oils and sugars group. Once we had checked this we decided if their meals were healthy.

Questions:
This week we are asking you one question (but you might need to do a bit of research to answer it). Do you think that Group 1's three meals make for a healthy day of eating?

Breakfast: A glass of milk, a pancake, a banana, an orange and a piece of bread.

Lunch: An egg, a glass of orange juice, spinach, tomato, ugali (a meal made from maize flour), and a piece of chocolate.

Dinner: rice, kidney beans, meat, nuts and a glass of milk.