Creating a Balanced Lunch and Dinner

Be your own top chef as you learn how to create a balanced lunch and dinner with a variety of foods from each food group. Learn what the 5 out of 5 model is and how this model helps to plan and create balanced lunch and dinner meals that are delicious and nutritious.

If teaching the Let’s Eat Healthy video curriculum series, use this video before Lesson 5 video for 4th Grade or Lessons 2 & 7 video for 5th Grade after this Let’s Get Active video.

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Dairy Council of California

CalFresh Healthy Living Program - Santa Clara County Public Health Department

CalFresh Healthy Living Program - University of CA Cooperative Extension Santa Clara County

This video was developed by Dairy Council of California in partnership with the CalFresh Healthy Living Program - Santa Clara County Public Health Department and the CalFresh Healthy Living Program - University of CA Cooperative Extension Santa Clara County as a teaching tool to help students learn about nutrition and establish healthy eating habits for lifelong health.