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The Learning Kitchen

The Learning Kitchen. Lesson One: More Produce, Please. MyPlate. MyPlate: Personal Recommendations. Healthy Starts With Hand Washing!. Keeping Food Safe!. More Fruits and Veggies!. How can you add more fruits and vegetables to your meals?. Fruit on your cereal

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The Learning Kitchen

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  1. The Learning Kitchen Lesson One: More Produce, Please

  2. MyPlate

  3. MyPlate: Personal Recommendations

  4. Healthy Starts With Hand Washing!

  5. Keeping Food Safe!

  6. More Fruits and Veggies!

  7. How can you add more fruits and vegetables to your meals? • Fruit on your cereal • 100% fruit juice with breakfast • Yogurt with fruit mixed in • Try two different vegetables with dinner • Fruits and vegetables as snacks • Canned, fresh, or frozen, they all count! • Anymore suggestions?

  8. The Learning Kitchen Lesson Two: Go-To Grains

  9. Grain Servings

  10. What is a Grain? • Bread • Rice • Pasta • Crackers • Oatmeal • Barely • Tortillas • Popcorn

  11. The Whole Story • What is a whole grain? • Contain entire kernel • What are the benefits of a whole grain? • More nutrients than refined • How much do you need in one day? • At least half of your grains should be whole

  12. Why are Whole Grains Important? • Whole (unprocessed)Enriched (processed) • Protein protein • Carbohydrates carbohydrates • Iron iron • B vitamins (6) B vitamins (4) • Soluble fiber soluble fiber • Trace minerals • Insoluble fiber • phytochemicals

  13. The Whole Story

  14. Read the Label Whole grains words to look for: • Whole wheat flour • Whole oat flour • Cornmeal • Barley

  15. Which One is Whole Wheat? White Bread Whole Wheat Bread

  16. How would you add more whole grains into your day? • Brown rice or whole-grain pasta • whole-wheat bread (read the label!) • Whole-grain cereals for breakfast • Try whole-grain snacks such as popcorn, whole-wheat crackers, or whole-grain cereal

  17. The Learning Kitchen Lesson Three: Strong and Healthy

  18. Strong and Healthy

  19. Sources of Vitamin D • Food sources • Fatty fish like salmon, tuna, and mackerel • Cheese • Egg yolks • It is also added to foods like most milk, cereals, and some juices and yogurt

  20. Sources of Calcium

  21. Carbohydrates • Grains are a source of carbohydrates in the diet. • Another source of carbohydrates are Added Sugars • What are added sugars?

  22. What are added sugars? • Sugars and syrups added to food during processing or preparation • What are some examples? • Soda • Cakes, cookies, pies • Fruit and energy drinks • Ice cream • Candy

  23. Why Limit Added Sugar? • Added sugar foods are sometimes: • High in fat • Low in vitamins and minerals • Adds calories without adding nutrients

  24. Nutrients in Beverages

  25. Find the Sugars • Brown Sugar • Corn Sweetener • Dextrose • Fructose • Fruit Juice concentrate • Glucose • High-fructose corn syrup • Honey • Invert sugar • Lactose • Malt syrup • Maltose • Molasses • Raw sugar • Sucrose • Syrup • Table sugar

  26. The Learning Kitchen Lesson Four: Meal Shopping & Planning

  27. Unit Prices • Unit prices can be helpful in comparing prices between similar items. • Compare the prices of the different types of rice--> What are you paying for? • Pre-processing • The bag and processing • Just the rice

  28. What’s the best option? • How much are you getting? • How much space do you have for storage? • How often do you use this item? • What is the cost/LB?

  29. Let’s Make a Menu • Activity: “Let’s Make a Menu” • Using TLK Recipe Cards choose two recipes to create a menu for a well balanced meal • Meals must have at least one serving from four or five of the food groups on MyPlate

  30. Meal Shopping & Planning • Meals planned ahead of time are more likely to be balanced nutritionally. • Shopping with a grocery list can save you time and money. • In order to save money, you could stock up on all of the items in the Sunday paper that have coupons.

  31. For Next Week • Use the “Planning a Meal” sheet in your book to make a personal shopping list for next week’s class. • We will take a trip to the grocery store, where each of you will get $10 to purchase your shopping list. Plan wisely!

  32. The Learning Kitchen Lesson Five: Store Tour

  33. Store Tour • Produce • Meat and poultry • Spices and herbs • Candy and processed foods • Organic/ conventional • Grocery store/ co-op/ discount store • Nutrient claims • Food product dating

  34. The Learning Kitchen Lesson Six: Putting It All Together

  35. What is Protein? What do you think protein is and what does it do in the body?

  36. Protein • Proteins are the building blocks that our bodies use to grow, and repair tissues, cells, hair, nails, and muscles • It is important to eat enough protein to effectively fight disease!

  37. What is Iron? What do you think iron does in the body?

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