This document provides instructions for implementing a nutrition experience making garden veggie tortilla wraps with preschool children. The experience will be held indoors and include developmentally appropriate ingredients like avocado, olives, and cheeses from different cultures to expose children to new foods. Children will be able to choose their own fillings to encourage decision making. Making the wraps provides learning opportunities about nutrition and cultural foods while not requiring the use of appliances.

1. Implementation of Nutrition Experience
Garden Veggie Tortilla Wrap
Introduction- We will set our Experience indoor in the classroom. Our experience will be
developmentally appropriate and aesthetically pleasing. It will promote independence in young
children. Our recipe is planned keeping in mind the age group of preschool Children. It will help
children learn to make healthy choices. Our recipe is planned in such a manner that it includes
Grains, Fruits and Vegetables, and Milk products. Before implementing, Children allergies will
be taken into considerations. Our recipe will be not include nuts or processed food. Our
ingredients will include Organic fresh fruit and fresh Vegetables. We will also include prominent
cultural food products like Avocado from Mexican Culture, Olives from Italian culture and
Greek Cheese from Greece. We will arrange all our ingredients on the table. Our ingredients will
be labelled with pictures as well as words. We will also provide a step by step recipe cards. The
recipe cards will also include words and pictures. This will help children who cannot read to just
look at pictures and understand the steps.

2. Garden Veggie Tortilla Wrap
Preparation time -20 min
Ingredients
1 packet of small 6 inch Whole
Wheat Tortillas
1 cup Sprouts
1 Avocado for guacamole 1 cup Cherry tomato for garnishing
1 cup Shredded Carrot 1 cup Basil leaves for garnishing
1 cup Shredded Lettuce 10-12 lettuce leaves for garnishing
1 cup thinly sliced Olives Salt & Pepper to taste
1 cup baby Spinach 1 packet disposable gloves
1 cup sliced Tomatoes 1 packet Paper plates
1 cup shredded Halal cheese ½ TBSP, 1TSP
1 cup shredded Greek cheese
Implementation
1) Check Children for any allergies for any of the
ingredients being used in the recipe
2) Wash hands with antibacterial soap before beginning
preparation
3) Put on disposable gloves

3. Step 1
Take a paper plate, place 1 whole wheat tortilla
on it
References:
http://wowsecrets4health.blogspot.ca/2012/07/whole-wheat-tortilla-recipe.htm
Step 2
Spread 1TSP ofguacamole
on it
Reference:
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Appetizers/guacamole.htm

4. Step 3
Put ½ TBSP each of your choice of veggies in the center of Tortilla.
Carrot Lettuce Olive
Baby spinach Sprouts Tomato
½ TBSP of your choice
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Step 4
Put ½ TBSP of your choice of cheese on top of veggies
Halal cheese Greek cheese
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5. Step 5
Sprinkle some salt & pepper as per taste
Salt Pepper
Step 6
To make a wrap
First fold the bottom part of tortilla up wards
Then fold the left side of tortilla towardscenter
Fold the right side of tortilla over the right. Place tortilla
facing upside down on plate
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5

6. Step 7
For garnishing use lettuce leaf, 4 basil leaves & 2 cherry tomato
Lettuce leaf Basil leaves Cherry tomato
Reference:
http://www.examiner.com/article/delicious-and-healthy-lettuce-wrap-snack
http://www.foodsubs.com/HerbsAsian.html
http://www.buyfruit.com.au/cherry-tomatoes
Conclusion-This is a very healthy snack for children. It’s also developmentally appropriate as
they don’t have to use Oven, Gas or Microwave. The different colors of vegetables make it look
appealing. Children can learn names of fruit and vegetables, where they grow and also their
nutritional values. They can learn about various food groups as stated by Health Canada Food
Guide. They can also learn about prominent foods used in different cultures. The most important
part is they get to choose their options which teaches them ‘decision making’ skill.

7. Question to be asked during implementation
How does Avocado help you to be healthy?
1. Increases good cholesterol
2. Gives proteins
3. Vitamin A
Where does Avocado grow?
Grows in warm climate
What is Olive, a fruit or vegetable?
Olive is fruit
Tortilla is staple food of which country and what’s the
main ingredient in tortilla?
Mexico & corn or wheat
What other countries make their staple food as tortilla?
South Asian –Chapati
Where does Greek cheese come from?
Greece