As my personal health goal was to eat a balanced meal at least once every day, I have been searching around the kitchen every day to look for food. I have been fully completing my goal since spring break started! The strategies I will use for myself to maintain
healthy eating in the future will simply be maintaining my current eating habits because I now have balanced meals (more vegetables) , and my family already chooses healthier selections of foods. This is a picture of my after school snack today. I cooked udon noodles with lots of different vegetables including carrot, spinach , and choy sum (most were leftovers) and a egg for the meat/alternative portion. I had a cup of milk earlier today so I didn't include that food group for this meal/snack.
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It's a long weekend which means I've been missing out breakfast for a few days ahahahahahahh. I try to make up for the missing meal with lots of food for brunch. I eat leftovers, fruits, whatever's in the fridge... This afternoon I had a balanced meal again since it's my EAT goal: bread, rice, beans, banana, yogurt, tomato, and water.
4.) My healthy goal setting influences me when I see a fruit at Queen A. Because my goal is to have a balanced meal at least once a day, it makes me ask the children during our little talks whether or not the food is a fruit or vegetable. it's influencing the way I lead the sessions. When we played a game to learn about the food groups at Queen A. , I wasn't surprised that the children had not learned much about it. So, as an EAT leader and a person, I proceeded to explain and teach about what I knew. It's not often for a youth to have the opportunity to teach/pass knowledge onto children, and I found that I enjoyed doing so too. This experience had revealed to me something that I have passion in, and will have a lasting effect on me.
Question 2: Come up with strategy to discover whether or not any food preparation techniques you've introduced to the kids have been transferred into a kid's daily life A technique I've introduced to the children was to fold their knuckles on one hand while cutting with a knife. I've noticed that some of the ones I taught continued to hold the hand position like that without me telling them to. My strategy to discover if they use this technique in their daily lives is to watch if they use the technique, and if they do, I proceed to ask them if they cook at home. If they do NOT cook at home, that means they don't use their new technique at home ---> not using the technique daily.
I haven't been completing my goal daily, but instead I fill in the missing food groups from my meals with snacks. I only had bread with a cup of warm milk for breakfast today, and 2 different kinds of dumplings for lunch. I decided on fruits for a snack to make up for that small amount of fruit/veggie food group from today.
I've been having a balanced meal about 5 times a week. I now take my snacks into consideration when I eat them. When I know I haven't had much grains or carbohydrates, I choose to eat crackers instead of a fruit. Today, I have not had any foods from the dairy food group. I will now go drink a cup of milk since I'm thirsty, rather than water.
Today for lunch, I finally had a balanced meal. It was home-made salad and dressing which consisted of lots of different vegetables, chicken meat, cheese, and croutons. I had this with bread and milk, making up for the small amount of croutons and cheese from the salad. I'm feeling healthy today. @Randy
I made the salad. It was because of my E.A.T goal that I decided to make it. Today for breakfast, I had a chinese pizza bun with juice. As a snack, I had another chinese pizza bun but with milk. For lunch we baked two frozen pizza ( we are short on food right now so that explains the frozen food). I also had an handful of peanuts too for the protein. I am missing vegetables today but dinner will make up for that. We are having lamb, kale, and rice. All together, it will be a balanced meal which is my goal.
I had a chestnut latte today. It's not as good as whole chestnuts, a bit of a letdown.
I ate chestnuts after school. I like chestnuts.
My goal is to have at least one balanced meal everyday. I will have a variety of foods such as spinach for the iron, nuts for the protein, and greek yogurt for the dairy benefits. I will achieve and maintain a balanced diet through different types of foods other than from just one group of foods. |
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