A Healthy Food Rainbow

by angela on November 23, 2011

rainbow This list poem considers the range of colours of healthy foods that constitute our ‘five a day’ and puts them all together to make a rainbow of foods, considering the benefits of each.  It includes a couple of metaphors, and one instance of hyperbole (exaggeration for effect).

 


I’d like to eat my 5 a day
But how can I achieve it
When I just poke the healthy food around
And then just leave it?

So from today I vow to eat
A healthy rainbow diet
I’ll make my plate explode with food
That starts a colour riot!

 
 red food

Red can be tomatoes,
Then orange, (that’s the fruit!)

 Or maybe, just for fun, I’ll eat
Some beans to make me toot! 

 orange food
 

 

Then moving swiftly on I’ll have
Bananas for my tea
They are the perfect fruit for giving
Energy to me

 yellow food
 green food

Then greens: there really is a lot
Of choice within this shade
The grocer has an awesome range
Of healthy greens displayed. 

Let’s start with apples (my favourite)
Then broccoli and peas
Then runner beans and sprouts
Which, truthfully, will rarely please! 

 
 

 Then blue berries are tasty
As they’re full of lots of juice
Cereals and puddings tend to be
Their favourite use.

 blue food
 indigo food

Indigo is tricky:
Grapes are all that spring to mind…
The tastiest alternative to
Choc’late I can find!

 
 

Finally, my food rainbow
Is finished with the best
The luxury of raspberries;
Better than the rest!

 

 raspberries
 

Now have a try yourself and
Make a rainbow that includes
Lots of lovely colours made
Of bright and healthy foods.

 

 

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