The document summarizes a student project investigating the healthiness of school lunch orders. The students conducted research on healthy and unhealthy foods, created a traffic light system to categorize lunch items, surveyed neighborhood residents about their lunch habits, and found that on average the school received 70 lunch orders per week. Their findings suggested that processed foods, sugary items, and fried foods were making students unhealthy, while fruits, vegetables, whole grains and proteins provided better nutrition.

1. Lunch
Orders/Boxes
Is it healthy or not?
By Katrina, Matilda & Zalma

2. Why did we chose our project?
 More and more people are becoming obese
and it’s because of the food they eat.
¼ Kids are obese NOW!
….so we decided to help!

3. Our guiding questions
1.What is in the food that is making us
unhealthy?
2. How much food should kids be eating for
lunch?
3.What foods should we be avoiding?
4. How many lunch orders are we having in
a week?
5. What are people eating for lunch?

4. How we helped
 We made a lunch order list which has ,
& .
= Bad/Rarely
= Ok/Sometimes By doing that, People
would start to think
= Good/Any time
carefully about what
We also printed the lunch
order list (which has all the
they’re ordering and
colours on it), as well as a putting into
smaller ‘Healthy Eating themselves, therefore
Traffic Light’ poster for each
neighbourhood to keep. healthier.

5. How did we know what’s
good and bad?
 We did some research on what’s good
and bad for our health.
BAD Good
• Processed foods • Fruit
• Margarine/Butter • Vegetables
• Cream • Oats/fibre-rich grains
• Cheese (not all) • Beans/Peas
• Sugary sweets and lollies • Rice
• Food with colouring
• Fizzy drinks Next we had a look at the
• Salt food and judged them by
• Junk food/fast food what they had in them.

6. Aussie pure beef pie
Moroccan lamb pie
A BETTER lunch
Madras beef curry pie
Roasted vegetable pastie
Sheperd's pie
Chicken and mushroom pie  We also drew up another lunch order
Roast lamb and vegetable pie
Large south melbourne dim sim
list which we think is more healthy
Hot Dog but still yummy!
Sandwiches
Salad
Leg Ham,cheese,tomato,lettuce
Egg,Cheese,Carrot
Tuna and lettuce
Vegemite
Snacks
Yogurt
Orange Juice
Tetra-pak
Added stuff
Fruit Salad
Trail Mix- Sultanas,almonds,dried apricot
Trail Mix- Chocolate chips,Dried pineapple,seeds
Trail Mix- Sultanas,chocolate chips,walnuts
Chocolate frog
It’s your choice…

7. How many people eat what?
 We also did a survey to all the people in
our neighbourhood and it also says
whether it’s healthy or not. Food in Lunch boxes People Healthy?
Peanut Butter 3N
Vegemites 3N
Subway (mixed) 18 Y
Bolognaise 0B
Fried rice 2Y
Pasta & 2Y
Rice & 2B
Carbonara 0N
Bicuits 10 B
Sugary drinks 2N
Fruit 43 Y
Veges 6Y
Chocolate 4N
Meusli bars (carmers) 6Y
Crackers 5Y
Cake 1N
Lollies 6N
Sugary bars (LCM) 1N
Yogart 2B
Juice 1B
Other 6 0

8. How many lunch orders are
we having in a week?
 Lot’sof people have lunch orders each
day and we made a graph of how many
lunch orders the school ordered in a
week. The total amount of
Days How many?
The average lunch orders had in
amount of
Monday 6 a week were 70.
lunch orders Tuesday 5
that we had
in a week Wednesday 10
was 14. Thursday 21
Friday 28

9. How much of what should kids
be eating?
4-7 years of age 8-12 years of age
4-7 years of age serves 8-12 years of age serves
Bread, cereals, rice, pasta, noodles 2 Bread, cereals, rice, pasta, noodles 3
Vegetables 2 Vegetables 3
Fruit 1 Fruit 1
Milk, yogurt, cheese 2 Milk, yogurt, cheese 2
Meat, fish, eggs, nuts 0.5 Meat, fish, eggs, nuts 1.5

10. Answers to our guiding questions
1. What is in the food that is 1. If it has lots of oil, salt, cream, cheese
making us unhealthy? or if it’s processed, is junk food, are
soft drinks or has lots of butter or
margarine it’s bad.
2. How much should kids be
2. Kids 4-7 --- 3000kj Kids 8-12 --- 4000kj
eating for lunch?
3. What foods in our lunch
3. We should especially be avoiding
order list should we be the food coloured in red and only
avoiding? eating the orange coloured ones
sometimes.
4. How many lunch orders 4. In a week our school all together has
are we having in a had 70 lunch orders.
week?
5. Most peoples sandwiches have
5. What are people eating for
salad in them.
lunch?

11. ¾2
How people use it
Grade 1 5/6 N1
Preps

12. Bibliography
 BTN-Obese Kids
 Dietary Guidelines for Children and
Adolescents
 Food pyramid (The new one)
 Our school’s lunch order list
 Carlton Primary school’s lunch order list
 Better Health Channel
 http://www.health.gov.au

13. Or else…