Dietary Assessments

Based on the Nutritional assessment of your diet
on slide 2
and what you have learnt in this module

please answer the following and email your answer to us:

Question: List 10 changes you are prepared to make to improve your diet. To help you with your answer please refer to this article on food variety. EMAIL your list of changes to us. Keep your list as dot points - please do not submit essays!

 

Tips to increase food variety:

Rather than having a meal comprised of a few different ingredients in large portions (steak, potato and peas) have meals with many ingredients in smaller portions (e.g. stir fry, casseroles, soups). Adapt traditional recipes by adding extra vegetables and legumes. Also, don't stick to one kind of breakfast cereal or bread, vary sandwich fillings daily and find ways to sneak in little extras e.g. add handfuls of herbs to salads, nuts in stir-fry.

Try adding the following foods to your diet to increase food variety:

multigrain breads
natural mueslis
pesto, chutney, jams, nut spreads
Stir fries, casseroles, soups and salads are an easy way to increase
'vegetable' variety by adding lots of different ingredients, especially onions, garlic, parsley, herbs and spices.