Healthy Eating
How canned food can contribute towards a healthy diet

Lesson 1 - Food Groups and 'The Healthy Eating Plate'

In this lesson, children learn about the different food groups. They are introduced to the idea of a ‘Healthy Eating Plate’ and learn that to achieve a health and balanced diet they need to eat different amounts of food from each group. They collect labels from canned foods and decide where these foods would come on the ‘Healthy Eating Plate’.

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Download activity sheet 1

Learning Objectives:

• To understand what the different food groups are.
• To appreciate which canned foods are available within each food group.
• To understand how to balance the different food groups to achieve a healthy diet.

Resources:

• Torch, toy car, hairdryer, doll or model of person.
• A selection of labels from cans, if possible.
• Activity Sheet 1 – The Healthy Eating Plate