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Southwark Schools In Bloom
In July 2011 Southwark Public Health Nutrition Team led two Fast Food Swap Shop Workshops to35 children in years 5 and 6. The children were from Tower Bridge Primary School, City of London Academy and Snowfields School.
The first half of the sessions involved discussing the definition of and examples of junk food and talking about the negative aspects of these foods and why we still consume them. The children then played interactively with fat and sugar test tubes which illustrated the contents of certain foods and The Eat Well plate with balance of good health food cards.
The second half of the session the children created their own healthy fast food meal in groups and then fed these ideas back to the group.
Look at what the children came up with!
Definition of junk food: Examples of junk food
* Bad for you * Cake
* Oily * Biscuit
* Fatty * Chocolate
* High in salt * Burgers
* High in sugar * Sweets
* High saturated fat (‘bad’ fat) * Chips
* Should have less than 5g of salt a day * Pizza
* High in calories * Crisps
* OK as a treat * Fried Chicken * Fizzy drinks
The children come up with possible side effects of eating too much of these foods
* Heart disease/attacks
* Increase in weight
* Less energy
* Rots/bad for teeth
* Makes teeth brown
* Hard to play sport
* Diabetes
* Makes it hard to breathe
In the document box below you can download the Southwark Schools in Bloom recipe book. This has a collection of recipes that were put together by Southwark Primary Schools and used at the Southwark Schools in Bloom event.
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Southwark in Bloom recipe book