Would you fill your car with Fanta to make it work? Your body is like a car engine, you have to give it the right kind of fuel to help it work well and to keep it healthy. It’s important to know what foods are good for you to stay healthy.

This is what should be on your plate for meal times. The plate is divided into sections, to show how much of some foods you should eat. This is also knows as a Pie Chart.

We are very lucky. The River Nile runs through Egypt. The Nile Delta (the land next to the river) is very good for growing all kinds of food! Can you think of some foods that grow in Egypt, that the Ancient Egyptians ate, that we might eat?

When you’ve been riding on the bus or in the car, have you seen vendors selling goods that they might have grown on their farms and want to sell?

How many of these vegetable can you name ? How many of them do you eat ? Can you think of some kinds of food we eat in Egypt that might have Some of the vegetables you’ve seen in the three pictures or might have vegetables in it?

Can you think of some fruit that might be grown in Egypt ?

Egypt grows lots of fruit that other countries can’t grow. Egypt keeps some of the fruit & vegetable to sell to the people living here, and exports (sells) The rest to other countries around the world.

Vegetables and fruit are not the only things that grow in Egypt. We have grain too! What is grain? Grains are some times in the form of hard seeds. Cereal plants.

What do we make from grains? Can you think of any food you eat that might come from grain?

What is it? Is it something we can grow? Protein is an important part of a healthy diet. Meat from land animals, like cows, sheep, goats, chicken and fish is protein. Can protein be grown….? What food do we eat in Egypt that has protein? Can you think of any?

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we shouldn’t eat or drink a lot of the things that have a lot of sugar or fat in them.