Here you'll find three instructional sheets for lower, middle and upper primary school classes. These sheets offer a general introduction to diet aimed at children, including the principles of a balanced diet and some very simple nutritional concepts for the older children. Use them to your heart's content! For more educational games and kits : http://www.fondation-louisbonduelle.org/france/en/know-your-vegetables/educational-kits/1.html

1. Lower primary school classes
You eat properly so you can grow and enjoy good health
1- Take a look at this table showing the 6 food groups
1 2 3 4 5 6
Fruit Cereals Sugar
Meat Dairy products Fatty foods
and vegetables & starchy food and sweets
Meat, Milk, Bread,
fish, yoghurt, pasta, Sugar,
Fruit Oil,
chicken, cheese, cereals, sweets,
and vegetables butter
eggs fromage frais potato, soft drinks
lentils
What a mess !
Put these foods into their correct group: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6
Cauliflower 3 Peas Sausage
Spaghetti Cream Lettuce
Sweetcorn Nuggets Omelette
Rice pudding Strawberries Chocolate
2- Good for me
You need to eat one food from each group for a balanced menu. Put a cross next to the menus
that are balanced.
Radish with butter Sausage Tomatoes Cucumber
Chicken and chips Steak with pasta Fillet of fish in Omelette
Cheese Semolina pudding breadcrumbs with peas Rice
Fruit Yoghurt Fruit tart
3- Plant or animal
Colour in red the foods that come from animals and green those that come from plants.

2. 4 - Cooked or raw
Which of these foods is eaten raw and which are cooked (some can be eaten cooked or raw).
Potato Schnitzel Banana Pasta Carrot Butter Fish fillet
Raw
Cooked
5 - Invent a balanced menu using foods you like.
6 - Circle the drink you absolutely must have each day.
Water Coffee Cola Fruit juice