"I EAT RIGHT" Colors of IMPORTANCE OF COLORFUL FOOD: the Rainbow It's important to eat many different colors of fruits and vegetables in order to give your body energy and help it stay healthy. Eating different colors of food also provides SHORT TERM GOALS: your body with all the important vitamins and nutrients it needs to keep you healthy. Each color does something Setting short-term goals that focus on different to keep your body healthy, so it is important to eating the rainbow is the first step to eat different colors each day and make sure you aren't eating more colors of fruits and just eating one color of food all the time. None of the vegetables each day. An example of a colors are better than the other which is why balance of short-term goal is to try and eat two all the colors is important. colors of vegetables a day, or two colors of fruit a day. Try introducing new and a variety of colors of fruits and vegetables as a family each week. EATING THE RAINBOW: Examples: Try a meal that uses a new vegetable in it Eating the rainbow of fruits and Cut up a bunch of different colors of fruits and vegetables helps the body prevent veggies to try together disease, illness, and keeps you healthy. Try to eat a different color fruit and veggie at two of Each color helps the body in different your meals each day ways. Go grocery shopping together and look for colors of Red- Keeps the heart healthy fruits and vegetables you don't have often Orange/Yellow- Fights disease and illness QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR CHILD: Green- Keeps you from getting sick Blue/Purple-Helps with memory Q: What color fruit and vegetables did you eat today? White- Keeps stomach and heart Q: What colors of fruits/vegetables do you not eat healthy often? Q:How can you work hard to eat healthy? HEALTHY HABIT OF THE DAY: A: Eating two colors of fruit a day Q: Why is it important to eat different colors of fruits I will work hard to eat healthy and vegetables? A: Each color helps different parts of the body stay healthy The different colors of fruits and vegetables and what they do for the body

Good for your heart

Prevents and fights disease and illness

Helps with memory

Keeps stomach and heart healthy Lets practice making a colorful plate! Use the foods shown below and chose the healthy and colorful options for your plate with all of the food groups!

Fruits Grains

Vegetables

Protein