🍽️🥦Food and Nutrition

Let’s Eat Smart!

🎯 What are we learning today?
We’re learning about the food we eat every day — where it comes from, how it helps us, and how to create a balanced meal that keeps our bodies strong, healthy, and happy.

🌾 Where Does Food Come From?

Food comes from two main sources:

🌱 Plant Food
This includes things like:

• Maize 🌽

• Beans 🫘

• Fruits 🍎🍌

• Vegetables 🥬🥕

• Rice 🍚

🐮 Animal Food
This includes:

• Meat 🍖

• Milk 🥛

• Eggs 🥚

• Fish 🐟

• Chicken 🍗

➡️ So when we eat, we should try to include food from both plants and animals.

🍲 The 3 Food Groups

Our body needs different types of food to work well. Let’s meet the 3 food groups:

1️⃣ Energy-Giving Foods ⚡

These give us the energy to walk, run, jump and even think!
Examples:

• Maize meal

• Rice

• Bread

• Oil

• Sugar

➡️ These are your fuel — like petrol for a car!

2️⃣ Body-Building Foods 💪

These help your body grow and get stronger. They also help fix the body when we get hurt.
Examples:

• Meat

• Milk

• Eggs

• Beans

• Chicken

• Fish

➡️ These foods are like building blocks for your bones and muscles.

3️⃣ Protective Foods 🛡️

These protect the body from getting sick. They help us fight off diseases.
Examples:

• Fruits (🍊 oranges, 🍎 apples)

• Vegetables (🥕 carrots, 🥦 spinach)

➡️ These are your body’s little doctors!

🥗 What is a Balanced Diet?

A balanced diet means eating the right amount of all 3 food groups in each meal.
We should not eat too much of one group and forget the others.

➡️ Your plate should have:

• Something for energy

• Something to help you grow

• Something to protect you from sickness

🍱 Planning Meals for the Day

Let’s plan a healthy day of eating:

🍳 Breakfast:

• Porridge (energy)

• Milk (body-building)

• Banana (protective)

🍛 Lunch:

• Rice (energy)

• Chicken or beans (body-building)

• Spinach (protective)

🥪 Snack:

• Bread with peanut butter (energy + body-building)

• Orange (protective)

🍲 Dinner:

• Pap (energy)

• Fish or eggs (body-building)

• Cabbage or pumpkin (protective)

➡️ Eating well helps us stay smart in class, active on the playground, and healthy at home!

✏️ Summary

Let’s remember what we learned:

✅ Food comes from plants 🌽 and animals 🐮
✅ There are 3 food groups:

• Energy-giving = power to move

• Body-building = help us grow

• Protective = keep us from getting sick
  ✅ A balanced diet has all 3 food groups
  ✅ We should plan our meals to include different types of food every day

🤔 Quick Challenge:

Can you make your own balanced plate using food you eat at home?
Draw it and label each part as energy, body-building or protective food!

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