Love your lunch activity pack

Win a Graze snackbox with
100 healthy snacks for your workplace!
To raise awareness about the importance of having a lunch break, we’re launching our Love your Lunch campaign
to celebrate Nutrition and Hydration Week (16-22 March). From now until 31 March, simply take a photo of you
loving lunch with your colleagues and send it to us using the hashtag #loveyourlunch
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Email – [email protected]
Did you know…
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Two out of five people skip lunch on a regular basis, with almost half of UK workers feeling their productivity
levels plummet in the afternoon
Taking a break, even if it’s only 15 to 20 minutes, is a proven way to sustain concentration and energy levels
throughout the day
A recent study found that your brain gets more of break by taking a walk in a green environment, like a park,
than if you took a stroll in an urban environment filled with concrete
Simply breathing in and out uses more than a pint of water a day. Without water, you would only expect to live
for around one week
How to love your lunch
To make it more fun, here are some helpful suggestions on how to enjoy lunch together:
• We’ve put together a short quiz of fun facts that you may not have known about nutrition and hydration. You’ll find
the quiz sheet in the activity pack you received. The answers are on the bottom of this page, but try not to peek!
• Give each person a “I’ve loved my lunch...” pledge sheet and think about one thing you can change after your
lunch. Encourage each other to put up your pledge sheets and try to stick to it! For example, “Drink at least
eight glasses of water a day”, or “Eat at least two portions of fruit and vegetables at lunchtime”
• Where can your lunch take you? It’s tempting to eat those soggy sandwiches at your desk but moving away
from your desk allows you the vital break from thinking about work. Do you have a local park or outdoor space
you can really enjoy your lunch in?
Last but not least, we hope you have fun loving your lunch. We can’t wait to see your photos!
1) Milkshake 2) Mixed greens 3) Scrambled eggs 4) Tuna fish 5) Leftovers 6) Lemonade 7) Side salad 8) Potatoes 9) H2O (Water)
1)Blueberries 2) False 3) 3 hours 4) Broccoli 5) Both! It’s also believed that nuns were forbidden to eat it at one time because it was thought to be
so romantically potent, and French doctors supposedly used it to treat broken hearts 6) A, B, D, C, or B, A D, C. Barley and quinoa take first place,
with around 3 grams of dietary fibre per serving (1/2 cup). 7)All of them 8)Courgette 9)Little sips regularly 10)All of them
Love your lunch quiz
Are you the perfect meal or a soggy sandwich? Test your knowledge against your colleagues with our nutrition
and hydration themed lunch time quiz. You will need your thinking caps on for round 1 and then ‘say what you see’
in round 2.
Round 1 – Trivia
Q1. What fruit contains more antioxidants than any
other fruits or vegetables?
A) Watermelon
B) Blueberries
C) Raspberry
D) Peach
Q2. True or false: Brown sugar is more nutritious than
white sugar?
Q3. How many hours does it take for food to be broken
down in the human stomach?
A) 30 minutes
B) 1 hour
C) 2 hours
D) 3 hours
Q4. What vegetable contains twice the amount of
vitamin C as an orange?
A) Carrot
B) Broccoli
C) Sprouts
D) Celery
Q5. Chocolate was believed to be so powerful that
at one time:
A) Doctors used it to treat broken hearts
B) Nuns were forbidden to eat it
C) Both
Q6. Grains high in fibre can help lower cholesterol and
protect against some cancers. Rank the grains below in
order of the highest fibre content to the lowest.
A) Barley
B) Quinoa
C) Brown rice
D) Oats
Q7. Which of these are signs of dehydration?
A) Feeling dizzy
B) Tiredness
C) Loss of strength
D) All of them
Q8. Which vegetable is zucchini better known as?
A) Courgette
B) Cucumber
C) Avocado
D) Green bean
Q9. How should you drink your daily water intake?
A) All at once
B) Little sips regularly
C) Big mouthfuls
D) One litre, twice a day
Q10. Vitamin C is important to help protect cells and
keep them healthy but which of these foods will provide
you with a source of vitamin C?
A) Potatoes
B) Orange juice
C) Brussel sprouts
D) All of them
Round 2 – Dingbats
Can you figure out the food or drink items being described in these pictures?
How did you do? (Answers are printed on the bottom of your information leaflet)
0-3 Soggy sandwich – Your knowledge is as lacking as the nutritional content of a Turkey Twizzler, perhaps it may be
worth checking out more information about nutrition and hydration at www.nhs.uk/livewell.
4-7 Lunch time picnic – Well done, you have the essential ingredients to make a good nutritious lunch.
8 -10 – The perfect meal – You have a great knowledge of nutrition and hydration, a Michelin Star is on its way to you!
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