YEAR 8 FOOD NUTRITIONAL VALUE EXERCISE (UNIT A)
1) Open this excel spreadsheet: Example
2) Use one of the following websites to find the nutritional and calorie values and complete intake
- Calorie counter (simplest-but portion sizes in Ozs)
- Calorie king(best but you have to total the calories yourself)
- Weight loss calorie counter (good but you have to change values for the size of portions)
- stholistic nutrients calculator
- Whats cooking America website (good. Simple but does not give you protein values)
- nutritiondata.com
3) Use the 2nd spreadsheet (spreadsheet 2) to complete YOUR nutritional and calorie intake for YESTERDAY
4) Design a menu which has the IDEAL BALANCED nutritional intake for a single day. Your menu must have at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables and have totals which are as close as possible to :
- Carbohydrates= 300g
- Fat = 65g
- Protein = 50g
- Calories= 2000 cal
LEVEL LADDER
- Lvl 3 = you have done a basic menu containing at least 10 foods with nutritional values
- Lvl 4 You have done a menu with at least 12 foods including 5 fruit and veg
- Lvl 5 you have designed a menu that has at least 12 foods is easy to understand, well presented with 5 fruit and veg. Also the meals are interesting and the nutritional values are all within 10% of the values stated above
- Lvl 6 - as for level 5 but the total nutritional values are with 5% of the values stated above
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