Texas Beef Council
offers two programs for Girl Scouts
Eat Smart – It’s all About You
Patch 
This program was developed by the Texas Beef
Council in cooperation with Girl Scouts – Lone Star Council
for Junior Girl Scouts and girls 11-14. By completing the activities
for this patch, girls receive help to face today’s nutritional
challenges and gain ideas on ways to adopt healthy, active lifestyles.
Activities, based on the highly regarded “It’s All
About You” campaign sponsored by the Dietary Guidelines
Alliance include:
Be Adventurous–Take a snack-attack challenge
Be Realistic – Mirror, Mirror: Get the Body Image You
Want
Be Flexible – Become a Youth Fitness Coach
Be Sensible – Is super-size the size you really want?
In these sections are many tips, Pyramid Power News (food guide
pyramid facts), Sound Bytes on the Web (hot links to nutrition
and fitness on your computer screen), What Counts as One serving
guide, Looking for some ZIP (Zinc, Iron and Protein), recipes,
and Fight Bac-teria Tips.
Girls earn the patch by completing all the starred activities;
Juniors complete 5 activities, Girls 11-14 complete 7 activities.
Other activities the girls may select from include: visiting
the fresh meat section with activities, planning a meal for
your family, inventing a new hamburger, interviewing your school
cafeteria manager or developing a two-day eating and activity
plan with tips for troop members. The patch booklets (girl guide),
troop leader’s guide, and patch request form can be downloaded
from www.txbeef.org under Special Programs. If you do not have
computer access to download the booklets and patch form, complete
the order form below for the free booklets and patches, which
are available while supplies last. |
The materials and patches are free of charge
with a small fee to cover shipping costs. Requirements:
*1. Complete the Be Adventurous Activity in the Patch Booklet.
*2. Complete the Be Realistic Activity in the Patch Booklet.
*3. Complete the Be Flexible Activity in the Patch booklet.
*4. Complete the Be Sensible Activity in the Patch Booklet.
5. Visit the fresh meat section of your local Grocery Store.
Identify 3 or more lean cuts of beef available. Remember to
look for “round” or “lion” in the
name. Find a recipe that uses one of the cuts. Figure out
how much you would need to buy to make a 3-ounce serving for
each member of your family.
6. Plan a meal for your family using a lean cut of beef. Explain
to your family the nutrients that beef provides and what those
nutrients do for your body. Remember ZIP-zinc, iron, and protein.
Visit www.txbeef.org for great recipe ideas.
7. Invent a “new” hamburger using different toppings
such as BBQ sauce, guacamole, sour cream or pineapples. Whatever
tempts your taste buds! Try using lean ground beef for a delicious
burger filled with ZIP! If you’re not up to cooking,
write down all of your new hamburgers and have your troop
or family vote for their favorite.
8. Interview your school cafeteria manager. Find out how school
menus are planned and what role the Food Guide Pyramid plays
in menu preparation. Make a chart that shows how the daily
menu relates to the Food Guide Pyramid. Ask your school cafeteria
manager to display your chart.
9. Develop a 2-day eating and activity plan with tips for
troop members to change or expand their eating habits to include
the recommendations of the Food Guide Pyramid.
10. Read the Fight Bac information in the booklet to learn
how to keep your food safe from bacteria. Make up a song that
includes the four Food Safety Steps: Chill, Clean, Cook, and
Separate. |
Fit for a Princess
Just about every young girl likes to pretend and perform.
Fit for a Princess is about playmaking. It’s about girls having
fun and using their imaginations. It’s about every girl getting
the chance to be a princess…and to perform for others. Fit
for a Princess is a FREE nutrition and physical activity patch program
for Junior Girl Scouts. (Small fee to cover shipping costs.) Its
goal is to encourage Junior Girl Scout age girls to eat smart and
be physically active.
The central activity of the Fit for a Princess patch program is
readers’ theater, a short skit with educational messages.
Once the girls practice, they’re encouraged to perform for
an audience, i.e. parents, Brownies, senior citizens, or other community
groups. In readers’ theater, girls read their lines, no memory
work is required. There are no stage settings required, and few,
if any, props. In the process of practice and performing, girls
develop self-confidence, use their imaginations, and build self-esteem.
They learn by doing.
The program consists of a full color activity booklet, durable paper
tiara, cloth patch, a letter to families explaining the program,
one leader guide for each troop, puzzles, recipes, and a choice
of cooking and fitness activities to earn the patch.
Materials for the program are free of charge to
Junior leaders while supplies last. To order YOUR troop’s
copies, please contact Myrna Monconduit at 713-292-0281 or mmonconduit@sjgs.org. |