Green is good for you! Have a green lunch for St. Patrick's Day
- green grapes
- spinach salad
- split pea soup
- green-colored milk
- saltine crackers painted with green food coloring
- USDA Choose My Plate
- Nutritional Recipes for the Classroom
- Nutrition Lessons (complement the Nutrition Ag Mag)
- The Farmer Grows a Rainbow
- Nutrition Ag Mag
- Beef and Nutrition
- Nutrition-Teachers Pay Teachers-FREE
- National Ag in the Classroom Lesson Matrix
- National Nutrition Month Celebration Kit
- Keep a journal of what you eat every day for a week. You can do this by writing it down or by taking a picture of your food before every meal. Be sure to include, breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and snacks.
- At the end of the week, compare your journal with other students. How does the food you eat compare and contrast with other students? What types of food do you eat the most?
- Discuss the book "Hungry Planet: What The World Eats." How does the amount of food you eat compare with that of other countries?
- Do you eat the same types of food as families around the world?
- How does the cost of a week's worth of food in America compare to that of other countries?