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What's a Body-Building Lunch?

Grade Level: 2nd Grade / Primary Elementary
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What's a Body-Building Lunch?
Students learn that a body-building lunch has at least three of the Five Food Groups. They apply the three-out-of-five rule to sample lunches and draw a picture of a body-building lunch they would like to eat.

• Understand that nutritious foods can be combined to make body-building meals
• State that body-building lunches contain foods from at least three of the Five Food Groups
• Identify body-building lunches

• Complete set of Pyramid Food Cards (1 per student)
• Sample lunch: meat or tuna sandwich, piece of fruit, carton of milk, cookie
• Markers or crayons
• Mixed-Up Lunch Menus PDF worksheet (1 per student)
• Pyramid Cafe® materials folder (1 per student)

• Have students take out their Pyramid Food Cards. Review the health benefits of each food group by asking students to show you:
  • Two foods that help heal cuts and bruises
  • Two foods that give the body energy
  • Two foods that do not belong in the Five Food Groups
  • Two foods that help build strong muscles
  • Two foods that help eyes see in the dark
• Print "body-building lunch" on the chalkboard. Talk about what students think this term means. Explain that you're going to teach them an easy way to figure out if a lunch helps build their bodies.
• Ask everyone to hold up their hand. Tell students their five fingers represent the Five Food Groups. Now have students put two fingers down and leave three fingers up. Explain that a lunch is a body-building lunch if it has foods from at least three of the Five Food Groups in it. Write this definition on the board.
• Ask students to help you figure out if your lunch is a body-building lunch. Show them the sandwich and ask:
  • What food group does the bread go in? (Grain)
  • What food group does the ham (turkey/tuna) go in? (Meat)
  • With your finger show how many food groups there are. (Two)
  • If I just eat this sandwich, it is a body-building lunch? (No, because there are only two food groups.)
• Bring out the fruit. Ask:
  • If I add fruit, is this a body-building lunch? (Yes)
  • Show me how many food groups there are in this meal now. (Three)
  • I also brought this carton of milk. Is this still a body-building lunch? (Yes)
  • Show me how many food groups are in the lunch now. (Four)
• Bring out the cookie and ask:
  • What food group does this go in? (None. It's an "Others" food.)
  • Is this still a body-building lunch if I add a cookie? (Yes, because it has foods from at least three of the Five Food Groups.)
• Distribute the Mixed-Up Lunch Menus worksheet. Review directions and do the first example together. Have students complete the remaining examples. Check to see if they correctly identified the number of food groups in each lunch. Have them draw a star next to the two body-building lunches. (Lunches 1 and 3)
  

  Ask students to explain in their own words how foods from the Five Food Groups were combined to make body-building lunches.

• End by having students draw a body-building lunch they would like to eat.

Going Further
Body-Building Lunches
Before the class goes to lunch, remind them to make nutritious choices. After lunch, take a minute to have a student name the Five Food Groups he or she ate for lunch. Have other students listen and use their fingers to check if it was a body-building lunch. Do this throughout the year until each student has had a chance to report.

Body-Building Snacks
Explain that a body-building snack has at least one food group. Have students use their Pyramid Food Cards to identify foods that would make body-building snacks. List ideas on the chalkboard. Then have students identify two foods that would go together to make a body-building snack. Point out that milk and cookies is a body-building snack because it has at least one food from the Five Food Groups.

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