FOOD DUDES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Food Dudes is a programme developed by Food and Activity Research Unit at Bangor University Wales.It was setup to encourage children to eat more fruit and veg,both at school and at home.
There are two main phases to the programme:
Phase 1 is an intensive intervension which lasts for 16 days.During this time
we were given fruit and veg, while the teacher is read a letter or specialy designed DVD's of the Food Dudes.These superheros on the DVD's that we were given saved the lifeforce from a gang of badies,whose objective is to take all the energy from the world,by depriving it of nutritious fruit and veg.Each day we were rewarded with small prizes for sucessfully eating a portion of fruit and veg.This phase is primarily school based although we kept a diary of fruit and veg which we ate at home.
Phase2 extends the home element of the Food Dudes programme by encouraging us to bring our own fruit and veg to school everyday in special Food Dudes lunch boxes.Classroom wall charts are used to record progress and further rewards upon reaching goals.This phase maintains fruit and veg intake by up to 50% of the classroom bring in fruit and veg everyday.We really enjoyed the "Food Dudes" We think it was a great sucess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Amy Caulfield and Jonathan Dooley