Food habits can be the behaviours why and

Food habits can be the behaviours why and how we eat and what foods we eat. Food habit are routines you get into relating to food. E. g eating late a night or having a food reward each week. Talk about any food habits you do regularly

TASK: Food habits • Write down 5 good food habits and 5 bad food habits • Explain why each one is good or bad

Good food habits • • Eating breakfast every day Helping to cook Eating healthy snacks Drinking plenty of water (8 glasses) each day Limit and keep track of how much junk food you eat Count how much fruit & veg you eat and aim for 5 -7 pieces each day Plan your daily food intake

Why is it important to have healthy food habits? • Maintain a healthy weight • Keep our energy levels constant • For our mood • To fight diseases • To prevent long term health problems

TASK: Food planner Plan out all of the food you could eat over a 3 day period. Think about main meals, snacks and drinks

TASK: Shopping list • Using your food planning sheet as reference, write a shopping list of everything you would need to buy • You could create a weekly food planner and shopping list

Food habits – scenarios Raj often gets hungry before he goes to bed so he sneaks down to the kitchen to eat some chocolate or a bowl of cereal and sometimes some sweets. 1. Is this a good or bad food habit? 2. How could Raj change or break his food habit to make it better?

Food habits - scenarios Olly goes swimming every week and after his swim he is starving hungry. On the way home they go to Mc. Donalds to get some tea. • Is this a good or bad food habit and why? • How could Olly still reward himself with food but turn it into a good food habit?