Title: Healthy Snacks

Content Area: Healthful Living

NC SCOS Objective(s):

Competency Goal 4: The learner will apply knowledge and behavior self management skills to areas of nutrition and physical activity for healthy growth, development, and maintenance. Objectives 4.04 Demonstrate the ability to plan healthy meals and snacks that emphasize the principles of My Pyramid. Materials: . Apples . Peanut Butter . Tortilla Chips . Strawberries . Low-Fat milk . Bananas . Salsa . Cornflakes . Graham Crackers . English Muffins . Pizza Sauce . Low-fat Cheese Instructions/ Procedures: Tia Lola packs healthy and delicious foods in Miguel’s lunchbox so he can become strong enough to make the baseball team. In this activity students will make healthy snacks and discuss the benefits of them. *If anything needs to be toasted or uses the microwave make sure you have the needed items or bring them already made* First lay out all the foods you will need to create the healthy snacks. -Spread peanut butter on apple slices. -Blend low-fat milk, frozen strawberries and a banana for thirty seconds for a delicious smoothie. -Sprinkle grated Monterey Jack cheese over a corn tortilla; fold in half and microwave for twenty seconds. Top with salsa. -Mix together peanut butter and cornflakes in a bowl. Shape into balls and roll in crushed graham crackers. -Mini Pizza: Toast an English muffin, drizzle with pizza sauce and sprinkle with low-fat mozzarella cheese.

Together with the class create all of these healthy snacks. Then go to the food pyramid and as a class find the categories that the snacks fall in. After you create and eat these snacks talk as a class about how even though these snacks are healthy they are also yummy. Talk with your class about how if you eat healthy snacks you will become strong and healthy. (optional) Have the students each create one healthy snack recipe, by using their own experience, computer, or magazine, and then put all the recipes together to create a cookbook.

Additional Resources:

Reference: Alvarez, J. (2001). How Tia Lola came to (visit) stay. New York, NY: Yearling. http://www.eatright.org/ada/files/25_Healthy_Snacks_for_Kids.pdf