1. What makes a good meal?

2. What will we be learning about?
Different food groups
Whether we like the same foods as our friends
What makes a good meal
How to design a dinner for a celebration

3. This is called the Eat Well plate
This is called the Eat Well plate. Encourage discussion about the different food groups and the differing proportions of these food groups. Ask the children to suggest examples of the different food types.

4. Food Groups
We are now going to look at some photos of foods from different groups.
Fruit and vegetables
Bread, rice, potatoes, pasta
Milk and dairy
Meat, fish, eggs, beans
High fat/high sugar foods
Encourage pupils to put their hands up before being asked to answer.

5. Which food group?
Ask pupils to tell you if the foods shown on these slides are ones that should be often, sometimes or just occasionally.

6. Which food group?

7. Which food group?

8. Which food group?

9. Which food group?

10. You are going to design a meal
This meal should be a celebration meal so you will want to think carefully about what you will want to eat.
Think about the 5 food groups and try to include them all in your meal.
You will be drawing and then painting your meal on your paper plate.

11. Divide your paper plate into 5 parts –one part for each of the 5 food groups
The 5 parts will need to be similar to the divisions on the Eat Well plate

12. What have we learned today?
Can you name the 5 different food groups?
Did we like all the same foods as our friends or not?
What makes a good meal?
How do we design a dinner for a celebration?