Back to School with the Food Label

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Hollis Bass

With the new school year, parents are getting back to packing lunches and trying to get dinner on the table amidst sports practices and other activities. Healthy meals start with choosing healthy food at the supermarket, and that means reading and understanding Nutrition Facts food labels.

Our Food Label theme has everything you need to create an engaging educational display at your next health and wellness fair. If there’s no fair in your future, consider incorporating some food label education into classes, individual counseling, bulletin boards, waiting rooms, or cafeterias.

Here are some food label health fair tips:

Get their attention: Attract people to your food label booth with our Food Label floor sticker/decal – it’s bound to make your display stand out!
Make it simple: Our materials make figuring out food labels as easy as 1-2-3. Play our Food Label Express PowerPoint or use our Understand a Food Label poster to teach the three steps to label reading. Our 5 Mistakes of Label Reading poster is a good option as well.
Make it hands-on: Set out an assortment of empty food packages so your audience can practice reading the Nutrition Facts. Give participants an I Know How to Read a Food Label sticker or a Food Label bookmark.
Provide useful take-homes: Send your audience away with handouts to remind them what they learned. Our Food Label handout tearpad is perfect – it features the 1-2-3 process of label reading with a handy healthy shopping list on the back.

By Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD

New Food Label Floor Sticker Floor Decal

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Food Label PowerPoint Express With New Food Label - DOWNLOAD

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Nutrition Facts Label Poster - New Food Label Poster

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The 5 Mistakes of Label Reading Poster

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New Food Label Stickers 2" - Pack of 100

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New Food Label Bookmarks Pack of 50 2"X7"

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New Food Label Handout Tearpad

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Board the Train to Healthy Holidays

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Hollis Bass

Keeping up positive eating and exercise habits can be tough for everyone during the holiday season. Taking time to reflect and plan can help us stay on a healthy track:

Reflect … How have I handled the holidays in the past? What’s hampered my healthy eating and exercise habits?
Plan … How will I handle these holiday challenges differently this year?

Help your students, clients, or employees reflect and plan their way through a healthier holiday season with our Holiday Train Game. This fun, interactive PowerPoint game is all about riding through the holidays without derailing healthy habits.

As the conductor, you’ll take your audience on a ride through a typical holiday season, making stops at potential challenges like holiday buffets, cocktail parties, baking, travel, holiday stress, and more.

Each holiday train stop has a question. If passengers answer correctly, they earn points and lose a pound. If they’re wrong, they gain a pound.

But more important than keeping score, the train stops will generate discussion and encourage your passengers to share their experiences.

By the time the holiday train returns to the station, everyone will disembark with a plan for making it through the season with healthy habits intact.

All aboard for a healthy holiday season!

Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD

Display of the Month: Sodium Math

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Stephanie Ronco

Can you believe that it’s already time for a brand-new display of the month?

Before we get to the new stuff, let’s take a quick look back at the previous displays of the month. Are you caught up?

All right, let’s dive into this month’s display…

Your Materials:

A Display Kit: Salt Display Kit (2 How Much Salt is in That? Posters, 1 Low Sodium Choices Poster, Mini Salt Shakers)
Extra Display Options: Sodium Math Poster on an Easel, Change It Up Banner, Food Label Floor Sticker
The Handouts: Sodium Math Tearpad
The Prizes: Change It Up Stickers, Change It Up Bookmarks
Multimedia Elements: Salt DVD, Sodium Education PowerPoint Show

The Activities:

Interactive Activities: Guess the Salt Content, Make a Low-Sodium Shopping List
Presentations: Salt DVD or Sodium Education PowerPoint Show

$September Sodium Math$

The Details:

Mix and match your materials into a visually-appealing display.

For the Guess the Salt Content interactive activity, you’ll need to do a little research beforehand. Grab a couple of grocery store staples (including some sources of shockingly high sodium levels, like prepared meals or frozen foods) and write down how many milligrams of sodium are in each one. You can take pictures of them or bring their packages into your display area for a bonus visual.

When your participants arrive, hold up (or otherwise introduce) the first item and ask people to guess how much sodium is in a serving. How much sodium is in the package? Offer Change It Up Stickers and Change It Up Bookmarks as incentives for participation and/or correct answers and use the Mini Salt Shakers from the Salt Display Kit to illustrate how much sodium is in each food.

After discussing a couple items, ask how people feel about the salt content. Is it roughly what they thought? Surprisingly high? Finish the discussion, then demonstrate how to find sodium content on the Nutrition Facts label by using the Food Label Floor Sticker. How much sodium is in one serving of the sample food? How about in the whole container?

For the Make a Low-Sodium Shopping List activity, begin by brainstorming typical foods on a shopping list. Then discuss which of those foods are high in sodium. How can people remember to check the label for certain foods, comparing different versions and selecting the option with the lowest sodium? Review a few strategies with the group, exploring the pros and cons of each one.

For the Presentations, grab your laptop and projector and set up either the Salt DVD or the Sodium Education PowerPoint Show. For the latter, introduce the handouts that come with the show first and answer any initial questions people may have. After the presentation, discuss the key points. What was surprising? Why?

And here are a few materials that may come in handy for this month’s display!