FOOD

Here are some ideas for earning the Food badge.  Some activities are designed to be done in a patrol or unit, others are designed to be done at home.

Suggestions have been split into ideas for Guides aged under 10 and Guides aged over 10, but feel free to mix and match - as long as it is a challenge for the individual girl!

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Under 10

Make lists of your favourite foods - using headings such as breakfasts, desserts, snacks, drinks, main meals, vegetarian food.

Find out about someone who has a food allergy and what they can and cannot eat.  There will be some information here.

Grow some vegetables at home.

Help to cook something for dinner for your family.

Try a food from a different country that you have never tried before.

Use a supermarket catalogue to cut out pictures of foods that you should eat often, eat sometimes and eat rarely and make a poster.

Bake something in an oven and bring it to Brownies to share.

Make up a new type of chocolate and design its wrapping.

Help to cook something outdoors (on a barbeque, fire, portable stove, solar oven etc).  There are some ideas here.

Over 10

Find out about someone who has a food allergy and what they can and cannot eat.  There will be some information here.

Cook dinner for your family and clean up afterwards.

Try a food from a different country that you have never tried before.

Make 3 different healthy snacks and take one to school for 3 days.

Grow some vegetables at home.

Make a recipe book containing recipes of your favourite foods - use headings such as breakfasts, desserts, snacks, drinks, main meals, vegetarian food.

Cook a meal outdoors (on a barbeque, fire, portable stove, solar oven etc).  There are some ideas here.

Bake something in an oven and bring it to Guides to share.

Make up a new type of chocolate and design its wrapping.

With your patrol, have a progressive dinner where you visit a different restaurant/fast food place for each course (entree, main 1, main 2, dessert).  You may only spend $10 at each place.