This week we finished up the My Physical Self theme by talking about healthy eating. I took me a while to figure out how to address healthy eating without talking about "good food" and "bad foods" and also make it fun, but I finally got it and the girls had a great time.
7:00 pm: Opening and Welcome
7:10 pm: Fun food vs fuel food
We started off the night by talking about different kinds of food, and whether or not they are a fun food or a fuel. Fun foods are foods that are fun to eat, but they don't have a lot of the nutrients that our bodies need. Fuel foods on the other hand have lots of nutrients that help us grow big and strong. Once we were all familiar with the concept, we played a guessing game to practice identifying fun foods and fuel foods. I showed the Brownies pictures of food and had them give a thumbs up for fun food or make big muscles with their arms for fuel food.
7:25 pm: Video
At he end of the game we watched a video from Kids Learning Tube about all the different colours of fruits and vegetables, and what health benefits each colour has. The video is also linked at the end of the game slideshow.
7:30 pm: Taste the Rainbow
Our final (and most fun) activity was the Taste the Rainbow activity from the Girls First platform. Each Brownie brought a food for each of the colours, and for anyone who was missing some of the colours we said that they could think of a food of that colour that they'd tried before. On the chart they wrote what food they tried, and whether or not it was a fun food or a fuel food.
7:55 pm: Alphabet Goodbye Song
This had nothing to do with healthy eating, but I saw this song on Tiktok and I thought it would be super fun to do with Brownies. Here's a video of it on YouTube.
8:00 pm: Closing and Goodbye
We've done meetings and activities around healthy eating before, but this is the first time I've been completely happy with the outcome. We talked about which foods to eat to help your body grow strong and healthy, without going into food-shaming territory. I tried my best to avoid language like "good food" and "bad food" because I don't want the girls to ever think that eating is a bad thing. If you're looking for more information on how to approach healthy eating from a food-positive and body-positive perspective, I recommend this resource: Creating a Body-Positive, Food-Positive and Inclusive Environment. You can find it in the Guider Info tab of the Picturing my Food activity on the Girls First platform, but I think that it should be in a much more accessible place.
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