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Meeting 11-4 Food Awareness
The objective is to have the boys gain
awareness of their food, beyond eating it. With Thanksgiving and various other
family gatherings coming up, it seemed like a good idea to have the boys know
how to stay healthy, food safety-wise
Activity #1
Supplies:
Sheet with Veggies and Fruit (find one
with a tomato, a tomato is technically a fruit (attached)
Blue and yellow crayons/colored pencils
Method:
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Have the boys color the fruit
yellow and the veggies blue
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Discuss with the boys what
makes a fruit a fruit and a veggie a veggie
Question: "IS IT A FRUIT
OR VEGETABLE,"
Answer: you need to ask is, "DOES IT HAVE SEEDS?"
Answer: you need to ask is, "DOES IT HAVE SEEDS?"
If the answer is yes, then
technically, you have a FRUIT. Apples. oranges and watermelon are fruits because
they hold the seeds which the plant makes to grow into new plants someday. The
little black dots on strawberries are also seeds which makes strawberries a
fruit.
Things like radishes, celery,
carrots, and lettuce do NOT have seeds so they are called vegetables.
Vegetables are any part of the plant that doesn't have a part in making the
seeds that make new plants.
If you are paying attention, you
will realize that because of its seeds, a tomato is a fruit, too. Cucumbers,
squash, green beans and walnuts all have seeds so they are also fruit.
Activity #2
Supplies:
Food Safety Coloring Book
Baby powder/ glitter/flour
Crayons
Small piece of fruit
Method:
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hand out food safety
coloring book
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Discuss how important food
safety is to stay healthy. The cold food needs to stay cold and hot food
hot that is not kept warm needs to be
refrigerated within 2 hours or disposed of (why it is important to only make
what you will eat on a camp out)
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Examples of times when food
could get to an unsafe temperature is camping, picnics and other odor settings.
Always have ice available to keep cold food cold.
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Discuss why hand washing in
the first and one of the most important lines of food safety. And so is proper
cleaning of food. Many foods get heated up and the germs that can make you sick
will die, but a lot of food stays cold, and you have germs all over your hands.
These germs can be transported to say lettuce that you are cutting up.
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Use the powder/flour/glitter
as an example. Shake a little on you hand and shake the hand next to you and
they shake the hand etc. Have the last person pick up the small piece of fruit.
Look very hard to see the powder/flour/glitter. You will see at least some.
Explain this is a germ that can make you sick. If you had washed your hands,
the particle would not have been there and if the fruit was washed, it would
have been wash off. (you could also have a piece for fruit for everyone and
then everyone picks up the fruit to see how many germs are on it.
Activity # 3
Supplies:
1 day menu
Pencils
Samples of
good food (fruits, veggies, meat, dairy) and bad food (candy, chips, junk food)
Pieces of
paper with good or bad (enough for each food item)
Method:
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Have the food in groups so
that 2 teams can use them (3 of each)
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Divide the boys into teams
(or if you are very small, 1 team)
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Have each boy pull a piece
of paper of a hat and have them choose the best option. Do this until all of
the food is divided
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Ask the boys what the bad
food has in common and what the good food has in common
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Hand out menu sheets. Have
have boys work together (or with parents) on creating a healthy menu for 1 day.
Have them also make a grocery list for the menu. Encourage them to take it home
and make it.
Activity # 4
Supplies:
Ingredients
for one of the recipes in the food safety coloring book. Or a simple healthy no
bake recipe
Lysol/Clorox
type wipes
Method:
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Make sure you wash your
hands before preparing food and also have them wash the area they are going to
be using.
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Make the recipe.
Adventures
Tiger: Tiger Bites 1, 2
Wolf: Germs Alive! 2
Bear: Bear Picnic Basket 1, 2a
Webelos: Cast Iron Cook 3
I hope this
makes sense. I am trying to have themed meeting, but also have boys make rank.
I also have had a few meeting already, so I going off what my Pack has already
done.
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