Food Groups
Pupil resources for this lesson. Use these sheets alongside the matching slideshow.
Food Groups: sort, unpack and plan
1. Sort the ingredients
Draw lines, write group names or tell an adult. Use these groups: fruit and vegetables; starchy foods; protein foods; dairy and alternatives; oils and spreads.
Bread
Rice
Apple
Carrot
Lentils
Egg
Milk
Sunflower oil
2. What is inside the wrap?
A pretend wrap contains the ingredients below. Match each to a food group. Name or point to two groups in the same wrap.
Bread wrap
Chickpeas
Lettuce
Yoghurt
3. Work with a 100p budget
Kai has 100p. Choose two different items from the pretend shop. Name their groups and find the total. Explain one thing your partner checked.
Bread roll: 50p
Apple: 30p
Yoghurt: 40p
My two items and groups:
Total cost: ___ p. Money left: ___ p.
Our checking job was: ___
Exit check
Point to the group for milk. Can a sandwich include more than one food group?
Source: BUILD_FoodWise_Autumn1_W1-W6_Complete_Pack.zip · Documents/Pupil_Booklet.docx
Five-group mat and ingredient cards
Use the five group descriptions as headings. Read or cut out the eight ingredient words. One pupil places a card while the partner checks using the examples.
Fruit and vegetables: apple, carrot, tomato and broccoli.
Starchy foods: bread, potatoes, rice, pasta and oats.
Protein foods: beans, lentils, eggs, fish, meat and tofu.
Dairy and alternatives: milk, yoghurt and calcium-fortified alternatives.
Oils and spreads: rapeseed oil, sunflower oil and suitable spreads.
Ingredient cards: bread; rice; apple; carrot; lentils; egg; milk; sunflower oil.
Extra card: water. Put this beside the mat as a drink.
Source: BUILD_FoodWise_Autumn1_W1-W6_Complete_Pack.zip · Documents/Resource_Cards.docx
Pretend wrap and snack-shop cards
All ingredients and prices are paper examples. First identify the groups inside the wrap; then choose two different shop items costing no more than 100p.
Wrap ingredient card 1: bread wrap.
Wrap ingredient card 2: chickpeas.
Wrap ingredient card 3: lettuce.
Wrap ingredient card 4: yoghurt.
Shop item: bread roll, 50p.
Shop item: apple, 30p.
Shop item: yoghurt, 40p.
Team job 1: choose and explain. Team job 2: check the group and total. Swap.
Source: BUILD_FoodWise_Autumn1_W1-W6_Complete_Pack.zip · Documents/Resource_Cards.docx