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Description

Lunch Box Relay Race

Resources

lunchboxes or picture of lunches ( 1 per team)
food or pictures of healthy and unhealthy food (a set per team )

Added TSA rescources from https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/lunchbox-relay/

Instructions

Before the game: Split into small groups. Each group should talk about what they think the main food groups are, what a healthy diet looks like, and whether it’s important to have a healthy diet.
Once the groups have had a chance to chat about healthy diets, everyone should come together. The person leading the game should help everyone understand the main food groups, and how they all come together to make a balanced diet.

Young People are split into teams and each team has a lunchbox (or picture of lunchbox or real lunchbox). At the other end of the room is a selection of foods (or pictures of foods), young people take it in turns to run to the other end of the room and select 1 piece of food that will help make a healthy balanced lunchbox. They should be putting 5 or 6 things in their lunchbox.
alternativily you could call out a specific food group and the young person has to gra a food item from that food group.

Reflection: Once they have completed their lunchbox you can have a chat about what they have put into it and why. and why the food items left are unhealthy.
This activity helped you to develop skills. Why is it important to be able to plan a healthy meal? Do you usually help to choose the food you eat? When you looked at your lunchbox, could you find a way to combine the foods to make a meal? Were some foods trickier to put together in the same meal?

This activity also helped you think about living healthily. Can you remember the different food groups that make up a balanced diet? Did you learn anything new about balanced diets? Why is it important to try and eat some food from each group? Did you see any foods you haven’t tried before?

Tags

• Healthy Eating
• Healthy foods
• relay game

Badge Links

• Chef - Food Groups
• Skills - Activity
• Skills - Good & Bad Food
• Skills - Problem solving
• Teamwork - Team game
• Teamwork - Team game