Ask Leah! The Ingles Dietitian
Partner content: Avoiding ingredients
Question: If there is a long list of ingredients that sound like chemicals on a food…
Spelling skills
- Have them help make up a shopping list at home on a piece of paper, their phone or your phone. Dictate what you need and let them type or write the items in.
- “I spy”. Challenge them to find items that begin with a certain letter, e.g. Find foods or other products that begin with “T”: tomatoes, turkey, tea, towels, tuna…and write those items down on a smart phone or say them out loud.
Math skills
- Have them weigh items.
- Running total. Have them keep a running total of products on a calculator or a phone.
Colors
- For younger children try an “I spy” for certain colors of foods or colors on labels.
Label reading
- Challenge children to look for specific things on labels …e.g. a cereal with the most fiber; a cereal with the least sugar.
Leah McGrath, RDN, LDN
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