Build A Better Sandwich: What’s the Best Cafeteria Sandwich?

For Patrick Henry Elementary, Martinsville, VA

This year, the cafeteria at Patrick Henry Elementary switched from serving white bread to wheat bread. Students want to know, “Why?” Was it a healthy choice? Is it cheaper than white bread? A lot of students like white bread.

Dr. Talley and Mrs. Sedor know students are concerned about this issue and want to give you a chance to share your ideas. It’s not a simple choice, though.

Cafeteria managers have to make lunches based on guidelines from the federal government. The guidelines let school cafeteria managers know what kinds of healthy foods to serve. So cafeteria managers have to come up with healthy lunches that are reasonably priced. They can’t just serve any food.

In this task, you are going to investigate and design school lunches. You’re going to be the cafeteria manager for the day! Your task is to design a sandwich that the cafeteria can consider making for school lunches. You can choose different ingredients, but your sandwich has to meet the nutrition and cost guidelines.

You have to show how your sandwich meets the nutrition and cost guidelines in a presentation or document you will give to your teacher. The best presentations with sandwiches that meet the guidelines will be shared with Dr. Talley and Ms. Sedor. Maybe the cafeteria will make your sandwich!

This challenge involves reviewing some of the guidelines the cafeteria has to meet. You’ll look at the nutritional values and cost of ingredients and combine them to make the best sandwich. You also have to design a presentation or document to convince your teacher, Dr. Talley, and Mrs. Sedor that your sandwich is the best choice. At the end of this task, all of the fifth graders will vote for their favorite sandwich!

Let’s get started:

1. Review Your Lunch Tray for guidelines for nutrition and cost. Your lunch tray shows you the cost and nutritional values for most of your lunch. You need to design a sandwich to complete the lunch.

2. Then, look at the Nutrition Guidelines for Sandwich Ingredients. You’ll find nutritional information and costs for different sandwich ingredients, like breads and wraps, meat and cheese, and vegetables. You can mix-and-match and change ingredients as much as you need to until you create a sandwich that is healthy, affordable, and tasty! Choose any of the ingredients you want for your sandwich, but they have to meet the guidelines listed in Your Lunch Tray. Your sandwich can’t have too many calories and your total lunch can’t cost more than $1.75.

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3. With the handout provided, you need to describe your sandwich by listing all the ingredients. You need to show the math for the following items:

a. The cost of all the items in your sandwich and the total cost of your sandwich.

b. The total cost of your lunch, and it can’t be more than $1.75.c. The calories for all the items in your sandwich and the total calories of your

sandwich.d. The total calories for your lunch, and they can’t be more than 650 calories.e. The total amount of saturated fat grams for your lunch, and you have to

prove that the total amount is no more than 1/10 of the total amount of calories for your entire lunch. (An explanation of saturated fat is provided in Your Lunch Tray.)

4. After you’ve designed your sandwich, you need to create a presentation to convince your teacher and the other students in your class that your sandwich is the best. You’ll need to show Dr. Talley and Ms. Sedor how it meets the nutritional and cost guidelines. You can review the commercials and advertisements for ideas of how companies promote their products.

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Your Lunch Tray

Also available as a PowerPoint presentation

According to the USDA (the United States Department of Agriculture), the requirements for a school lunch are:

Your lunch should have no more than 650 calories. The total amount of Saturated Fat* (Sat. Fat) can be no more than 1/10 of the total

calories. The total cost for your lunch can be no more than $1.75.

*Saturated Fat is a kind of fat in foods that is not healthy. All food labels tell you how much saturated fat is included in each serving in grams (g).

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Possible graphs to include

Total Calories

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Total Cost

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Nutrition Guidelines for Sandwich Ingredients See PowerPoint file (can be converted to another format, if preferred)

Commercials and advertisements promoting bread

If students don’t have Internet access to view the commercials on their own, consider picking the first 2 and showing them to the whole class.

Current Bread Commercials: Promoting healthy bread, etc.o Sara Lee 100% Whole Wheat Commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=YfryJ1BUXX4 o Wonder Plus Bread: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4rimmbWGKUo Wonder Smart White Bread Commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=Pqn8OGLMYyk&feature=endscreen&NR=1 Bread commercials with a gimmick:

o Vintage Sunbeam Commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6EIAKpns3s

o Genius Bread Einstein commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPlYlMBj2b8&feature=relmfu

Infographic based on sandwicheso Happy National Sandwich Day! [INFOGRAPHIC]

http://foodbeast.com/content/2011/11/03/happy-national-sandwich-day-infographic/

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Bread/Sandwich advertisements:

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The following is an infographic and might be helpful for explaining how information can be conveyed through an image. It’s an option students have in terms of creating a product.

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