This week class was called Good Eats! We talked about Choose My Plate, food labels, and cholesterol. Again, this class was incredibly difficult to squeeze into 50 minutes. I really wanted to have fun with this class so I brought snacks! I took apple slices, yogurt, peanut butter, and ants on a log (celery with peanut butter and raisins). Thanks to Heather and Jacquie for the great ideas! These healthy snacks weren’t as big of a hit as I’d hoped. I asked them what they usually liked to snack on and I got answers like fried chicken and Little Debbie Snacks. In fact, I was asked if I could bring fried chicken next week! I used a powerpoint to guide our lecture. After we talked about Choose My Plate, I taught them the basic concepts of label reading. Beth Kitchin is the Nutrition instructor for UAB School of Nursing, and she let me borrow lots of props for class this week. She gave me snack boxes, microwave dinner boxes, juices, soups, and a coke bottle with just sugar in it (great visual to show you just how much sugar you are getting in the 16 oz bottle). I made sure everyone had an example of a food label to hold and read as we talked about them. I brought 5 extra boxes of raisins. I told them that whoever could answer my questions at the end of class correctly would win a box of raisins. This really sparked their attention! One of my students who had been answering all my questions with the word “peaches” and plucking invisible things out of the air told me exactly how many mg of sodium was in the can of soup she was holding, and the daily value percentage. Like Dr. Mc Guinness said, “Perception is an fascinating phenomenon!” After label reading, we talked about what cholesterol was, and the difference between good and bad cholesterol. This week I got hugs. It was great! I really love my class!
I won’t be having class next week. The Jasper House nurse will be having a group with them. I’m going to give her some evaluation questions to see what they are learning and what they think of the class so far. I want to go ahead and evaluate, so that if there is anything I can improve on or make easier for them I can do it now. I’ve got 4 classes left, and I want them to be awesome!
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