One of those most basic parts of teaching young children about nutrition is learning which foods fall into which food groups. What kind of foods are peanuts, celery, lentils, or butter? Learning the food groups is the first step in learning how to eat healthy. Preschool games and flashcards work well for younger kids, and can even be fun for older ones.
Have your kids draw pictures of different types of food on index cards, or cut out pictures from magazines or grocery store sales ads and glue them onto the cards. Hold them up and see which of your children can name the food group first. You could make the game harder by using flashcards of foods with more than one ingredient, like a turkey sandwich, for example. Can the kids figure out all the food groups present in a turkey sandwich? How many servings of bread are in that sandwich?
Most early child education only gives nutrition a passing glance, but if you start with some fun flash cards and games to learn the food groups, you're building a foundation of nutrition knowledge for kids to add to later. They can't plan a proper meal if they don't know what they're eating!
Here's a great tool for inserting images onto printable flashcards that works well for this project. http://quizlet.com/faqs/faq-how-do-i-add-images-to-my-flash-cards/
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