Materials Needed for Training

Activity 1: Dietary Knowledge Timeline

• Picture of six food guidance systems (FGS) -- from 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1990s, 2005, and 2011
• Paper and Pencils
• Copies of handouts: "A Brief History of USDA Food Guides" and "Comparisons Between Traditional and Modern Recipes" (one per family)
• Optional: 2-3 cookbooks for each family from the past 40 years and 2-3 current cookbooks with similar recipes
  

Activity 2: Back to the Future: Food Time Capsule

• Pens/pencils
• Extra sheets of paper
• 3 large envelopes
• Laminated pictures of historically diverse, food-related items to put in "time capsules"
  

Activity 3: Balancing the Sugar

• Measuring teaspoons
• 1 or 2 5-lb bags of sugar
  (depending on number of participants, allow for 1/2 bag per family)
• Bowls or Ziploc baggies
• Food labels for each food item to be discussed
• Fast food and regular food composition tables
• Calculator (one per group)
• Copies of the handout:
  "How Much Sugar is in the Foods We Eat?" (one per family)
  

Activity 4 (optional): Portion Distortion

• One bell for each team
• Markers
• Flipcharts and flipchart paper
• 5 Portion Distortion handouts
• Handout: "Strategies to Control Portion Distortion while Eating Out"
• Prizes for winner

ACTIVITY 5 (optional): Baking -- Now and Then

All materials for this activity depend on recipes used.

• Hand mixer (rotary beaters, non electric)
• Flour sifter
• Dough mixer
• Baking pans
• Kitchen facility with oven and sink, microwave and convection oven
• 1 recipe and 1 prepared mix for the same item
  

Activity 6: Sharing Visions

• Pens/ Pencils
• Copies of the handout: "Sharing Visions -- How We Learn Together about Food and Nutrition" (one per family).

Take Out Activity: The Family Meeting