Find out what the food guide pyramid is and why we need to eat a variety of foods from all five groups in the pyramid to stay healthy.

Open the food guide pyramid and read the first three paragraphs to help you answer these questions.

1. Why is the guide usually in the shape of a pyramid?
2. The food groups are placed in a certain part of the pyramid, can you explain why?
3. What does 'the number of servings mean'?
4. What are nutrients and why are they important to our growing bodies?

Email your answers to ed@tki.org.nz

1. Now play the food guide pyramid game on this page. This may take a little time to load.
2. Click on each food group to discover why these foods are important for you.
3. Open the 'colouring page', print and colour.

Now fill in your own pyramid by opening the food pyramid document.

1. Write the foods that you usually eat in a week for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in their correct groups in the pyramid. Remember you can make the font size smaller or larger in the text boxes.
2. Now do a quick check. Have you written some food names in all the pyramid groups?
3. What groups have only a few foods or are empty?
4. Under the pyramid write down other foods you could eat to complete a balanced food pyramid.
5. Check that you put down your number of correct servings by using this link to help you.
6. To finish off enjoy playing the 5 a Day Detective Day!

Email your completed pyramid sheet to ed@tki.org.nz

Wiki is feeling hungry from all this talk about food and wants to cook something yummy to eat, but is having trouble choosing what to make. Can you help Wiki out?

• Open the list of recipes and choose one that you think sounds scrumptious!

or

• Write out your own favourite recipe.
  1. Open the recipe document ( 27kb) to write in your own favourite recipe.
  2. Have fun being creative and experiment with the auto shapes, word art, and colours.
  3. Don't forget to give your recipe a funky/ groovy name.

Email your scrumptious recipe to ed@tki.org.nz

Ed has found these fun quick activities to do and wanted to share them with you.

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Vegetable tahi
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