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The right foods add up to a healthy diet. Solve the food sudoku puzzles and see who knows their onions (and lettuce)!

Resources

Scissors
Glue sticks
Coloured pens or pencils

Instructions

- Everyone should get into small groups and talk about what you need to eat in a healthy diet. The person leading the activity should go around and remind everyone of the main food groups on the The eatwell guide: fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates, proteins, fats/oils and dairy. Everyone should be aware of the amounts of these foods that are needed for a healthy lifestyle.
- It may be useful to print a copy of the 'The eatwell guide’ for everyone, if they don’t already have one, or to stick one up on the wall. Alternatively, head over to tcc's supporter page to learn more about what makes up a healthy lifestyle.
- The person leading the activity should hand out the Food-doku puzzles to the groups for them to solve, as well as the food symbols. Everyone should start with the ‘beginner’ puzzle, move onto the ‘intermediate’ puzzle and try the ‘advanced’ puzzle if they have time. This should take 20 minutes.
- To complete a smaller grid, place the food symbol cut-outs into the empty squares in a way that makes every row and column (up-and-down or side-to-side) of foods make up a balanced diet. Each row or column should contain at least one fruit, vegetable and carbohydrate, and a protein, piece of dairy or glass of water. In larger grids, each row or column should contain each food symbol only once.
- When the time has passed, the person leading the activity should give out the Food-doku templates. Everyone should use a glue stick to stick the food symbol cut-outs to the blank grids and create their own puzzles for the other groups to solve. Swap templates to try each other’s.

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