Nutrition and Healthy Meal Planning
During this project we were required to make a poster and a chart about how to eat healthy at every meal. Which means eating correct portions and getting the right amounts of each food group. Doing that in a healthy way also means eating:
Fruit- 1.5 cups and most of that should be FRESH fruits.
Vegetables- 2 cups for girls, 2 ½ for boys and you should eat a variety of colors.
Grains- 5 ounces for girls, 6 ounces for boys and make ½ of grains WHOLE grains.
Protein- 5 ounces and make your protein LEAN protein.
Dairy- 3 cups and you should choose low-fat and fat free.
Eating healthy also includes not eating fatty, un-healthy foods and that calories in needs to equal calories out.
The purpose of this project was that we could create a well-rounded meal that met the My Plate requirements. My Plate used to be called the "Food Pyramid" (a nutritional diagram in the shape of a pyramid). We learned that the U.S.D.A. (United States Department of Agriculture) changed the Food Pyramid to the My Plate because the Food Pyramid didn't accurately show that most of your proportions are the same size. In a pyramid the way that it was set up basically told you that not all food types are as important as others because of their size.
During this project I think I definitely grew in creativity and persistence. In planning a healthy meal creativity means creating a meal that you made, and that's not the same as the person next to you. Although abstract is creative you didn't really want you meal to be extremely abstract. Not very many people would want a yogurt parfait, peas, chicken, toast and peanuts for breakfast, so it had to me logical like yogurt with blueberries and dried oats in it, with some sunflower seeds and no vegetable, You can see when I used creativity in my artifact of the meal planning sheet, because I didn't choose a meal that I had had like the night before I created something new and specific to me. In the healthy meal planning persistence means continuously trying to get a meal approved to put onto a poster. Thst also means not giving up because it was "hard", if you really think about it, it wasn't hard at all if you put yourself into it instead of just putting the first thing that pops into your head on the paper.
