How to Make Healthier Choices While On the Go

There are times when we are on the run and may be unprepared for lunch!

This often ends up in eating out, such as a fast food restaurant.

Class Activity: On the board: Make a list of

Pros vs Cons of eating out at a fast food restaurant.

Convenience Foods

What criteria could make up a convenience food?

Brainstorm

Although, fast food is sometimes a meal choice we make, there are often times that people make unwise food choices…

Un- Wise ChoicesFor a Healthy Lifestyle!

Junk Food PizzaLarge meat pizza covered with potato skins, mozzarella sticks, mini taco’s, jalapeño poppers and onion rings.

The McNuggetiniA McDonald’s chocolate milkshake with vanilla vodka, rimmed with BBQ sauce and garnished with a chicken McNugget.

Sausage Egg And Cheese On A Chocolate Glazed Donut

Bacon Burger Dog With Cheese

Hot dog wrapped in cheese, wrapped in ground beef, wrapped in bacon. 

Heart Attack SandwichChicken fried steak,  chicken-fried bacon, a country sausage, a fried egg, a fried green tomato topped with cheddar cheese and sandwiched between buns toasted in bacon fat, all served with a gravy dipping sauce.

The Jabaconageburger With CheeseA cheeseburger patty topped with bacon and sausage between two jamaican beef patties.

Deep Fried Peanut Butter-Covered Brownie Wrapped In Cookie Dough

Mega Double Stuff Oreo

Corn Dog Pizza

The Double Bacon Hamburger Fatty MeltThree bacon-stuffed grilled cheese sandwichs for buns, cheese, bacon and two four-ounce beefs patties.

French Fry-Encased Hot Dog On A Stick

Giant Breakfast BurritoA seven pound breakfast burrito stuffed with potatoes, eggs, onions, and ham bits, lots of cheese on top and smothered in red chile.

Tombstone Deep Dish Pizza Vending Machine

Chicago Deep Dish Pizza

Shake Shack Shack StackA deep fried cheese-stuffed portabello mushroom between

two cheeseburgers.

Deep Fried Cadbury Creme Egg

Elvis DonutPeanut butter glazed donut topped with bananas and bacon.

Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheddar Cheeseburgers

Your Body & Fast Food

How does your body feel after eating fast food? (replenished, satisfied, overly full?)

How would your body feel with a steady diet of fast food eating out at least once per day?

Would you be able to meet your nutritional requirements according to Canada’s Food Guide while eating out?

Opportunity for Research

Many people believe that teenagers prefer fast food for lunch to healthier alternatives such as salads, soups, and sandwiches.

How could you design a study to investigate whether this is true among students at your school?

Advantages and Disadvantages

What would be the advantages and disadvantages of using a survey in your research?

What would be the advantages and disadvantages of doing an observational study?

Programs that Encourage Eating for Optimal Health

What could this entail? In schools, communities, the province?

Programs that Encourage Eating for Optimal Health

BRAINSTORM

What criteria should be used to evaluate the health benefits of a breakfast program, or of ministry policies setting nutrition standards for schools?

Example

PPM 150 – School Food & Beverage Policy Healthiest Choice = Easiest

Choice for student Good health is a prerequisite

for quality learning (healthy body, healthy mind)

All food and beverages offered for sale in Ontario’s publicly funded schools for school purposes comply with the requirements set out in the policy (PPM 150PPM 150) – Ministry of Education

Embody the principles of healthy eating outlined in Canada’s Food Guide

How to make better choices in a fast food restaurant

Handout: Fast Food Tip Sheet

Consumer Report

Activity: In groups of 2 or 3, prepare a short presentation on one of the following fast food restaurants.

Consumer Report Activity

What to prepare to present: Looking at the nutritional facts, put

together a healthy meal from your restaurant (be prepared to explain why it is healthy)

Looking at the nutritional facts, put together the least healthiest meal from your restaurant (be prepared to explain why it is not so healthy)

Criticisms/praise for the restaurant.

i. T h in k in g: M ust b e ab le to co m m un icate th eir kn o w ledge o f th e n utrien ts th ro ugh W H Y so m eth in g w as a h ealth ier o r un h ealth ier ch o ice.

ii. C o m m un icatio n : clarity in ex p lain in g to class

Video: Test Your Fast Food Knowledge

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Duration: 20 min.