DIY Meals and Snacks
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DIY Meals and Snacks is a ✨free✨, ready-to-use program designed for junior high and middle years foods teachers. Students learn how to plan, prepare, and enjoy balanced meals and snacks that follow Canada’s Food Guide, while building confidence in key skills like cooking, budgeting, and decision-making.
Through four engaging lessons – featuring tested recipes and chef-led cooking videos – students explore meal planning, food variety, and the factors that influence food choices.
Each lesson builds important skills:
🥄 LESSON 1: The Building Blocks of Meals and Snacks
Students practise creating meals and snacks that feature foods from the Canada’s Food Guide (CFG) Plate.
🥄 LESSON 2: Exploring Variety
Students explore how choosing a variety of vegetables and fruits, whole grain foods, and protein foods helps their bodies get the nutrients they need.
🥄 LESSON 3: Factors That Affect Food Choices
Students examine how various personal needs and available resources influence their food choices.
🥄 LESSON 4: Signature Dish
Students apply knowledge of the CFG Plate, of choosing a variety of foods, and of factors that affect food choices in the development of a signature dish.
🌟This program can be adapted for high school foods classes.🌟
Bring DIY Meals and Snacks to your classroom! Download the files and start exploring today.
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Language:
English
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FREE
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