Nutritionist Visit

Learning About Nutrition

On Tuesday Room 12 went to New World to look at Nutrition tables and check out the nutrition guidelines to see how healthy they really are with Marewa the Nutritionist.

First we all walked over to the Interview room in the Office and it was as clean as a whistle inside the interview room and then the first group Tahi went and the rest of us played I spy.

Next Mrs Dallas came back to pick my group up Toru and another group Rima. When we got to the supermarket we were each given a sheet to record our findings on.

Then my group split into two groups. It was the Boys in one group; Henare, Mason and I and a Girl group; Ella and Iliili.  My group started with Snacks and we chose Whole Grain Crackers for our Healthy Snack and Round Wine Biscuits for our Occasional Snack.

Next we found the nutritional information for Bread, Milk and Dairy Products, Drinks and Breakfast Cereals.

Finally we were all finished and my group was finished first. Once we were all sitting on the Window Sill we each got given a green Lunch Box with fruit on the top sticker and our own class also got a $60 coupon for a healthy lunch.

It was really fun going through the supermarket and learning about nutrition, nutrition tables and guidelines.  Most of all I hope I get to learn more about nutrition, because I enjoy it.

 

On Monday we learnt about the food pyramid in class

Marewa has a watchful eye as we investigate snack foods

By Lane O’Connell

Nutritionist Visit

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Nutritionist Visit

Our trip to the super duper market “Fruits, veges, snacks, that is all I saw”! 

Yesterday Rockin Room 12 went to the supermarket with a nice lady called Marewa she was teaching us about what and what not to eat.  So we had a trip to the supermarket.  No we were not walking in the rain, we were in groups going in Mrs McCambridge’s van.

So what we had to do was all on a sheet that told us about different types of food we were to look at while we were at the supermarket.  I was working with Iliili.  All we could hear was talk, talk, talk from the customers.  

Iliili and I started with the snack foods.  We looked at the snacks and chose Muffin Bake Bars.  We had to look for 5 things on the box; energy, fat, sugar, dietary fiber and sodium.  And so we did the same with other snacks, bread, cereals, milk, diary products and drinks.

Do you know that water has nothing but sodium?  Once we had finally finished I said, “come on let’s go to the others”.  When we got to the others they were all holding lunch boxes, “come on and get a lunch box,” explained Marewa.

We were so lucky because she gave us a $60 gift card so we could have a very healthy lunch one day soon.

 

Finding the nutritional information for bread

How much fat per 100g is in Vita-Weats?

By Ella Walker