Session 2: Fat and shopping Supermarket visit The purpose of this exercise is to: know where to buy low fat foods buy low-fat foods for the tasting session be able to choose ingredients for low fat fruity bacon and or fish and chips. At the visit with the group: 1. Find foods that exist in two forms - low fat or high in fat. For example: full fat milk (blue label) and low fat milk (green or red label) Ask the group which food they should choose and why Answer: Low fat foods because they are better for your heart and do not make you fat. Repeat the activity with other products. For example: Butter and low fat margarine Full fat cheese and cottage cheese Chocolate pudding and yogurt You can choose other items that are low fat to look at and / or buy too. Visit the butcher or meat section and see meat with fat and without fat. Explain to the group that if they want they can ask the butcher to cut the fat from the meat they want to buy. This is called lean meat For example: Chicken with the skin removed Bacon with the fat cut off Lean mince
Session 2: Fat and shopping Supermarket visit The purpose of this exercise is to: know where to buy low fat foods buy low-fat foods for the tasting session be able to choose ingredients for low fat fruity bacon and or fish and chips. At the visit with the group: 1. Find foods that exist in two forms - low fat or high in fat. For example: full fat milk (blue label) and low fat milk (green or red label) Ask the group which food they should choose and why Answer: Low fat foods because they are better for your heart and do not make you fat. Repeat the activity with other products. For example: Butter and low fat margarine Full fat cheese and cottage cheese Chocolate pudding and yogurt You can choose other items that are low fat to look at and / or buy too. Visit the butcher or meat section and see meat with fat and without fat. Explain to the group that if they want they can ask the butcher to cut the fat from the meat they want to buy. This is called lean meat For example: Chicken with the skin removed Bacon with the fat cut off Lean mince
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