Healthy eating: MyPlate
Works in the UK and the US. This version uses US words and measures (stove, cups, °F); the UK version uses hob, grams and gas marks. · UK version of this page
The five MyPlate food groups and how to build a balanced meal.
MyPlate
MyPlate shows the five food groups that build a healthy meal:
- Fruits and Vegetables – make half your plate fruits and vegetables.
- Grains – make at least half your grains whole grains.
- Protein Foods – vary your protein: beans, peas, lentils, eggs, fish, poultry, lean meat, nuts and seeds.
- Dairy – choose low-fat or fat-free milk, yogurt and cheese, or fortified soy alternatives.
Choose water over sugary drinks, and eat foods with added sugars, saturated fat and salt less often.
Lesson and quiz
Step by step: a quick safety check, questions graded by Classfern, timers for each cooking step, then an honest look at how it went – a teacher or parent judges the cooking, and learners rate their own work. Photos of the finished dish stay at home.
Use the code your teacher gave you – never your name. Progress is kept on this device.
Put it into practice
- Rainbow fruit cupsA no-cook treat of fruit in rainbow layers with yogurt – perfect for first knife skills.
- Overnight oatsA no-cook breakfast you make the night before: weigh, measure, grate and mix.
- Fresh tomato salsaA bright, no-cook dip that teaches dicing, the bridge hold and the claw grip.
- HummusA smooth chickpea dip – and a real example of an allergen (sesame in tahini).