• Schools Nutritional Action Group

• Our aim is to promote healthy eating and nutrition for all pupils in St Mary's.

What is S.N.A.G?

Miss J. Morgan

Health Co-Ordinator

Niamh Brady

(Chairperson)

Laura Hillen

(Vice Chairperson)

Orlaith Bagnall

Rachel Kearney

Shannan Davision Steering Group

Eimear Goodman

Niamh Kilcoyne

A Balanced Diet?A healthy diet is one that is balanced. This means eating the right amount of food for how active you are, and eating a range of food from main food groups. Including;

• Carbohydrates

• Protein

• Fruit and vegetables

• Milk and dairy foods

• Fat

Did you Know?....

1. If you were to eat a packet of crisps a day- That's 5 litres of cooking oil in a year!

2. A bag of Jelly babies contains 60 cubes of sugar!

3. A Petit Fiolus yogurt has 6 teaspoons of sugar in it!!!!

Shocking Facts

• In one can of coke there is 7 teaspoons of sugar

• In a Mars bar there is 11 tea spoons of sugar

• Sugar rots our teeth

Did you know?If you don’t eat any food all day your body

stores all the fat and eats the muscle. This makes you weak and actually causes

weight gain rather than loss

The Canteen• The canteen can only serve

meat four times a week.• Chips twice a week.• Cannot serve ribena or any

other high sugar content drink.

• Spaghetti hoops are no longer allowed because of how much sugar they contain.

How Can you get involved?

• You can answer the survey on VLE.

• Give suggestions on what you think should change.