Sushi, salad, daikon, Croquett

Healthy diet with balanced foods

Mazegohan

1. Cut carrot(1 small), shitake mushrooms(2), age(1/2), and chicken (100 g).
2.  Stir fly #1 and boil with bonito soup stock (1 cap), sugar (1 tbsp), soy sauce (2 tbsp)
3. Cook rice (2 cups) with #2 add water to make it 2 cups.

Green pepper with pork

1. Mix ground pork (300 g), 1 egg, 1/2 cup bread crumbs, 1 spring onion, salt and pepper.
2. Cut green pepper into half and fill #1 into it.
3. Stir fly #2.
4. Add soup stock (250 cc), soy sauce (2 tbsp), mirin (2 tbsp), sugar (1 tbsp).
5. Boil #3.
6. Add potato/ corn starch.

Potato & egg salad

1. Boil potato and egg.
2. Mash them.
3. Add mayo, salt and pepper.

Easy healthy chinese

Stir fry beef and vegetables

1. Marinade beef with sugar, water and sake for 30 minutes. (to tender the meat).
2. Stir fry the beef.
3. Add soy sauce.
4. Remove the beef.
5. Stir fry spring onion and chopped ginger.
6. Stir fry boiled bamboo shoot.
7. Stir fry green peppers.
8. Add sesame oil.
9. Sprinkle salt & pepper.
10. Add the cooked beef.

Wanton and tofu soup

1. Mix ground pork, garlic, ginger, minced cabbage & leak, salt, pepper, sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil.
2. Wrap #1 with wanton.
3. Boil #2 and tofu with chicken broth.
4. Add salt, pepper and soy sauce.
5. Add spring onion.

Rice
Tomatoes

Easy recipe: one plate balanced food

Fried fish (cod)

1.  Sprinkle salt & pepper to the fish.
2. Add flour.
3. Add egg.
4. Add bread crumbs.
5. Deep fry.

Green beans

1. Stir fry chopped garlic.
2. Stir fry green beans.
3. Add salt & pepper.
4. Add chili powder.
5. Add soy sauce.

Tomatoes
Corn (1/2, boiled)
Rice

*This is enough portion for a person. You don't have to eat more than this. Eat moderately.

Bento #2

Ingredients: Shrimp, lettuce, ginger, egg, spring onion, daikon radish, carrot, tomato, spinach, dried bonito, rice, ume pickles, black seaweed

Bento #1

Ingredients: Ground pork, tofu, onion, egg, bacon, asparagus, potato, broccoli, cheese, parsley, tomato, rice, black seaweed, Ume pickles

Daily Food Group Servings

http://www.fitchicago.com/foodpyramids.html

[Daily food group servings]
Grains: 6 servings

• Breakfast:1 cup whole-grain cereal (1)
• Lunch: 1hamburger bun (2)
• Snack: 3 cups low-fat popcorn (1)
• Dinner: 1 cup cooked brown rice (2)

Vegetables: 5 servings

• Breakfast: 6 baby carrots (1)
• Lunch: corn (1), 1 cup chopped lettuce (1)
• Dinner: 3 spears of broccoli (1), 1 cup cooked greens (1)

Fruits: 3 servings

• Breakfast: 1 small apple (1)
• Lunch: 1 small box of raisins (1)
• Dinner: 1 large orange (1)

Milk: 3 servings

• Breakfast: 1 cup fat-free milk (1)
• Lunch: 2 onces low-fat American cheese (1)
• Snack: low-fat yogurt (1)

Meat & Beans: 5 ounces

• Lunch: 1 small lean hamburger (3 ounces)
• Dinner: 1 small half chicken breast ( 2 ounces)

Portion Distortion Poster

http://openlibrary.org/works/OL9859582W/Portion_Distortion_Poster

Purpose: to offer a quick look at healthy portions.
Use: shows the difference between recommended serving sizes and what more likely appears on our plates. It also shows the easiest way to measure portions. It’s ideal for the classroom, kitchen, weight room, or snack bar.
Appearance: has an impact with images and words.
Critics: the message is straight forward. The use of familiar images is effective. Kids can easily link the image of the poster to their everyday lives.

Tabouli

How to make sushi

Easy Recipe: Spinach stir fry rice noodle

How to make rice ball

stylish bento

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16069217

Dietary Guidelines Poster

Dietary Guidelines Poster
Creator: USDA
Purpose: to find a balance between food and physical activity
Use: helps to make informed food choices and encourages being physically active. This is done by promoting nutrient-rich foods and limiting salt, sugar, solid fats, and refined grains.
Appearance: colorful and clean, and tabloid size.
Critics: easy to understand with images. Grouping by colors is efficient and easy to follow.

http://www.schoolhealth.com

ConAgra

http://www.conagrafoods.com

This company manipulates the parents as well. Their site tells the moms to say yes to the children's requests including allowing them to eat this crappy kid cuisine. This message simply gives more power to the children not to the mothers. This way, children will be allowed to eat whatever they want. Advertisement is very strong to manipulate people's minds, especially young children. They even deliver false messages and make them sound true. Consumers in general don't buy with logical thinking, but they are deceived by these advertisements. I thought, I could use this strategy in a good way as a graphic designer.

Japanese bento

A short commercial from Tokyo gas company: The mother creates heartfelt balanced lunches for her son.

Kids Cuisine

http://www.conagrafoods.com

This is an image of" Kid Cuisine Bug Safari Nuggets", microwavable food for children, created by ConAgra.

This product is very popular among children and it provides a variety of foods. However, this ready-made food is generally high in sodium and cheap bad oil such as concentrated lard is used. The company uses very effective marketing strategy. First of all, the package design is attractive to the children. The playful penguin character looks like it’s having so much fun swinging on the jungle vine. The design includes mazes and other games for children on the box.

This box becomes a toy rather than real food. The children can decorate the chicken nugget with a sealed plastic pouch of ketchup. How fun the mealtimes can be! However, these food tastes like plastic, not real food.

Creative Lunch

http://www.sanrio.co.jp

http://www.sanrio.co.jp

Children bring their homemade lunch to school. Some mothers make a big effort to create artistic lunches to please their children.

Child Nutrition Awareness

I always enjoy playing with children. I was a full-time nanny from 2003 to 2005. I also worked for almost two years as an assistant teacher for an international school in Japan. I have two nieces and two nephews whom I adore. Someday I would like to have my own children. Kids are always fun to be with. They will bring joy and open a new world for you. However they can create nightmares for parents and caretakers also, especially when you have to discipline them.
One of the most difficult tasks is feeding children. Feeding becomes like a game, it seems like the more pressure you put on children to eat vegetables or having good eating manners, the less they have an interest in eating right. One of my hobbies is cooking and eating. Mealtime is pleasant for me but why do so many caretakers, including me, struggle to feed children properly?
Generally, through my experience, kids are not interested in eating healthy. They prefer to play than sitting and eating. They are distracted easily by other members at the table (siblings or friends), by TV or by toys. Off course they get hungry naturally and they love eating, but they prefer sweets or junk food to nutritious food. Even though there are so many books/videos talking about nutrition, balanced diet, eating healthy, or the evils of junk food, kids still go for unhealthy bad food. WHY? Reading books about nutrition can keep one healthy for a while but it is very easy to go back to bad routines once the reading is over. When children are socialized to eat what they want to eat most of the time, there are so many temptations and cravings and it is very difficult to control one’s impulses to eat unbalanced and unhealthy food. To eat healthy, one needs to have a strong mind to win over those bad temptations and powerful corporate advertisements for bad food such as McDonalds.

Educational materials for children’s nutrition awareness

I am making a set of educational materials, to be placed in various locations and
domains in children’s everyday lives, to promote children’s nutrition awareness. This will physically remind children that they should eat a balanced and proportionally reasonable
meal any time they eat a meal. It is hoped that such educational materials placed in various
places throughout children’s everyday lives will help them to develop an intuitive sense of what
a balanced meal. It is also hoped that exposure to my materials will help children to develop
an automatic instinctual reaction that something is wrong when they see a plate of food that is
disproportionate in the food groups or unbalanced in general.
Here is the set of materials I created: Food grouping game, food alphabet, stickers, buttons, Daily food serving poster, booklet, picture book, t-shirt.