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Nutrition Food Panel
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Consumer U

This unit will help you explore three specific tools to guide your food choices. You can learn to choose foods in grocery stores, the school cafeteria, restaurants, snack bars, and at home using these tools. If you've visited the unit on My Food Habits you explored some of the things that influenced the foods you eat. To review these influences find a buddy and complete the Making Choices Worksheet. After that we'll focus a bit on the tools that can lead us to healthy eating. These tools are the Dietary Guidelines, the Food Guide Pyramid, and the Nutrition Facts Panel. Finally, in this unit you'll have an opportunity to design and test a commercial for children. Have fun and be creative!!

Activity: Making Choices Worksheet