Book Summary Of How Did That Get In My Lunchbox

In How Did That Get in My Lunchbox by Christine Butterworth, it tells a story about how people make food before kids find the food in super markets and their own lunch boxes. The story begins with the picture of children getting ready to eat lunch. The text on the page then asks a question about where the food comes from before it was in the stores. The second page then shows a picture of an opened lunch box with a sandwich, juice box, oranges, tomatoes, carrots, and a cookie inside. The story goes on to explain where the ingredients come from and how the ingredients become a piece of bread or a cookie. It is an entertaining book to read as parents can assist in explaining the process of how people grow ingredients and then use the ingredients

I believe that the book also “acknowledges the role of other agents in creating a healthy food environment, including the food industry, food access, affordability and education, and commercial processes of food advertising culture” (Tanner, Maher, and Fraser, 2013, p. 190). This quotation claims that educational resources need to let children know of other agents that help create a healthy food environment rather than just knowing they need to eat healthy. In my opinion, I believe this book does teach the children to eat healthy while allowing the children to recognize the other agents in creating a healthy food environment. Instead of focusing on just healthy eating this book tells the children how everything people make the food they eat by knowing this they may also appreciate food more and learn the origin of their food and lead them to eating healthy. In general, the book will be a good family book to read together. I believe they will gain a better understanding if parents can also try to help their children have a healthy diet. Overall I find this book very interesting in the way the writers promote healthy eating by showing children how people make the food they

In my opinion, it is a comedic story about a burger-loving boy, Benny, who turns into a burger for the majority of the story. He does not like eating vegetables, fruits, or anything else than burgers. He only eats burgers. His mother warns him he might be a burger one day and it supernaturally becomes reality as Benny turns into a burger. After some scary experiences such as being chased by dogs and almost getting out on display at a burger shop Benny realizes he needs to eat vegetables and fruits to turn back, he decides to eat the vegetables he hates. This may be a way for children to realize that they need to eat healthy food to get certain nutrients. However, at the end of the story Benny turns into a carrot. He turns into a carrot because after he turned into a boy again he decided to never eat a burger again and decided to eat only vegetables. In my opinion, the book could be suggesting that while vegetables and fruits can be good for health, children also need other nutrients such as food in the grain, dairy, and protein category. In the “Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide”, it states that children age 2-3 should have 4 servings of vegetables/fruits, 3 servings of grain products, 2 servings of dairy and alternatives, and finally 1 serving of meat and alternatives (Health Canada, p. 2). Children age 4 - 8 should have 5 servings of fruits and vegetables, 4 servings of grain products, 2 servings