Healthy Eating
How canned food can contribute towards a healthy diet

Teacher Briefing

This unit aims to introduce children to the main food groups and the portions that we should eat within these groups in order to have a healthy, balanced diet.

This unit fits well with the QCA Science Unit 5A – Keeping Healthy. Through use of this unit, the following learning objectives can be achieved:

Children should learn

• That to stay healthy we need an adequate and varied diet
• To present information about diet and health

The unit also includes activities linking to the National Literacy Strategy Framework for Year 5 with the writing of instructional texts and the production of a leaflet in which the children are asked to persuade others that canned foods are a healthy and nutritious option.

Canned Food UK produces a range of free recipe cards and information leaflets on this subject that are ideal for use in the classroom. Combined with the information on this website both you, as a teacher, and the children you are teaching should come to see the benefits of using canned foods in every day meals.

Multiple copies of the Can-veniently Nutritious and Open for Healthy eating leaflets can be ordered free of charge by visiting www.cannedfood.co.uk or calling 0800 243364.