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HEALTHY EATING

To earn this award, complete and check off each requirement:

1. Practice reading labels.
2. Check out your eating habits.
3. Eat healthy for a week.
4. Make healthy food.
5. Get creative.

Service Opportunity _____________________________

1. Practice reading labels. (do both)
Nutrition Information
Gather various food products with nutrition labels. Be able to explain what each part of the “nutrition information” section means. How does each “nutrition” area affect a person’s body?

Product Comparison
Choose several products in one category (breakfast cereals, power bars, etc.). Compare calorie count, fat content, sodium, protein, and so on.

  • Which product do you think is healthiest? Why? If it’s hard to decide, why?
  • If the product makes any health claims, how do you think they measure up to the actual nutrition information on the label?

    2. Check out your eating habits. (do all)
    Keep track.
    Write down everything you eat for a week. Don’t forget snacks. Ideas:
  • Use a journal.
  • Make a poster-size chart and decorate it with pictures of some of the foods.


    • Evaluate.
    At the end of the week, look over your journal or chart. Cross out some food choices that weren’t the best. Write in some healthier foods that you could substitute for them. Be realistic–think of healthier foods that you like and would actually eat.

    Read 1 Corinthians 6:19-20.
    Consider how your food choices honor or don’t honor God. With an adult, discuss nutrition needs of kids your age. Discuss what types of eating habits hurt or help your body.

    3. Eat healthy for a week.
    Keep your food journal or chart for another week. Choose healthy foods all week. Then discuss the experience with your family or club–how it went, how you felt, and so on.

    4. Make healthy food.
    In the list below, fill in items that would make a healthy meal. Make and eat one of them.
    Appetizer:
    __________________________________________

    Main dish:
    __________________________________________

    Three side dishes:
    __________________________________________
    __________________________________________
    __________________________________________

    Dessert:
    __________________________________________

    5. Get creative. (choose one)
    Create a cookbook.
    Collect healthy recipes that people your age would like. Put them together in a booklet, a notebook, a recipe-card box, a special page on your church’s Web site, or an e-mail to your friends.

    Invent and prepare a healthy snack.
    You may use recipes for inspiration, but make up your own creation.

    Make another healthy food from requirement 3.

    Service Opportunity
    Give a presentation to a group of kids near your age, discussing 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, eating disorders, and healthy eating.


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