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Healthy Meal Design Worksheet

Plan a tasty meal for a busy school day. Use the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating plate as a guide: fill about half with vegetables and fruit, one quarter with grain foods (prefer wholegrain), and one quarter with protein foods. Choose water as your drink. There can be many healthy combinations!

Read the lunch challenge

Kai is packing lunch for a long day outdoors. They have brown rice, chickpeas, spinach, capsicum, grated carrot, an apple and plain yoghurt. Kai wants a filling meal with a variety of foods and little packaging waste. The lunch must be kept safely cool until lunchtime. A balanced meal does not need to include every food group at every meal, but choosing a variety across the day helps provide different nutrients.

1.Which combination best meets the plate guide for Kai’s main meal?
  • Mostly brown rice, with a small spoon of spinach
  • About half vegetables, some brown rice, and chickpeas as the protein food
  • Only an apple and yoghurt
  • Capsicum and carrot only
2.Name two vegetables or fruits from Kai’s lunch ingredients. Then name the grain food and the protein food.
3.True or false? Choosing foods of different colours can help add variety to a meal.
TrueFalse
4.Kai wants a drink to go with lunch. What is a suitable everyday choice?
  • Water
  • Soft drink
  • Energy drink
  • Fruit-flavoured cordial

Design and explain

Make your own meal plan. It can be inspired by Kai’s ingredients or use different foods. Think about balance, variety, taste and practicality.

5.Plan a meal by writing one or more foods for each part: vegetables and/or fruit; grain food (preferably wholegrain); protein food. Add a drink.
6.Explain two ways your meal plan offers variety or supports a balanced diet.
7.Which lunch-packing choice is usually best for reducing single-use waste?
  • A clean, reusable lunch container used again
  • A new disposable container each day
  • Several layers of cling wrap
  • A single-use plastic bag
8.The lunch will be outside for several hours. Name one safe way to keep perishable food, such as yoghurt, cool until lunchtime.
9.Kai is helping prepare lunch. State two food-safety steps Kai should take before eating or preparing food.
10.Draw your planned meal on a plate. Show the approximate portions and label the foods.
Draw and label your meal. Show how you would divide the plate.

3 printable pages

  • Healthy Meal Design Worksheet, page 1 of 3: Read the lunch challenge

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  • Healthy Meal Design Worksheet, page 2 of 3: Design and explain

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  • Healthy Meal Design Worksheet, page 3 of 3: 10. Draw your planned meal on a plate. Show the approximate portions and label the foods.

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