1. Healthy & Happy Meals
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83/1, Kammanahalli Main Road,
Bangalore – 560 084.
Ph.: 080 4351 8000

2. Nutrition ABC for School Children

3. Food Choices
• New challenges regarding food choices and
habits.
• Decisions about what to eat are determined
by what is provided in school, at home, the
influences from friends at school, and the
media, especially television.

4. Media & Eating – Are these good
choices?

5. Are these good?

6. What to choose?

7. Why eat healthy?
For Energy & Strength

8. Why eat healthy?
Build immunity & fight diseases

9. Why eat healthy?
For taller, stronger and sharper YOU!

11. Brain Food! Whole cereals,
fish, fruits
• For learning & memory
Leafy veggies Nuts
• For Cognitive function
Kiwi fruit Walnuts Cod liver oil
• For Moods
Fish Eggs Citrus fruits

12. Who is healthy?

13. What to Eat?
• Eat Breakfast.
– fruit
– milk
– Idlis / Rotis / cheese toast /cereal (oats or ragi or wheat flakes)
/peanut butter sandwich
• Healthy Snacks
– fruit
– vegetables and dip
– Flavoured yoghurt
– sandwich
– biscuits and crackers
– milk and cereal

14. What to eat?
• Wholesome lunch
– Vegetable-soy granules rice with raita
– Veggie stuffed rotis
– Kichidi with vegetable raita
– Sambar rice with vegetable or non-veg
– Noodles or pasta with veggies and chicken
• Early light dinner
– Rotis / Rice (limited)
– Vegetables (not deep fried)
– Curds
• Doodh, doodh, doodh.

15. Sample Meal Plan
Meal Day 1 Day 2
Breakfast Cheese sandwich Egg sandwich
Midmorning Oats-ragi biscuits (4) Fruits (apples/ pomegranates/
papaya / oranges)
Lunch Vegetable-soy granules rice with Rotis with vegetable curry
raita
Teatime Cereal with milk and fruits (oats Vegetable noodles or pasta
with fruits and milk)
Dinner Rotis with palak paneer or chicken Rice with chicken/fish curry
curry
Curds
Bedtime Milk Milk