🎉 Now available for pre-order — limited first run, ships the week of August 25. Reserve your kit today.

Why it beats the old sets: most food-model kits hand you a box of plastic and nothing else. Build-a-Plate includes a free scoring app and a full Leader Guide and Activity Book, with colorful, modern models your younger audiences actually want to build and share, and it still costs less than half the price of those dated sets.

Turn the healthy-plate lesson into something people can touch and build. Every Build-a-Plate kit includes 20 different items — realistic food models plus a teaching plate — with multiple pieces of many of the foods, so clients can build endless, fun plate variations.

With plenty of pieces to go around, everyone gets to have fun building their own creation on the healthy-plate model — and the free Build-a-Plate app we built gives them an “A” when they choose all the food groups along with enough fruits and vegetables. It turns a nutrition lesson into a hands-on game.

Bright, modern, and made to be arranged. These aren't the dull, dated food models of decades past — every piece is colorful and appealing, so building a healthy plate feels less like a lesson and more like a creation. Students and younger audiences love mixing their favorites into their own vibrant plate, snapping a photo, and seeing if they can earn an “A.” It's healthy eating people actually want to share.

Perfect for dietitians, diabetes educators, teachers, and community health leaders. Works one-on-one, in a classroom, or at a health fair.

What's included (per kit)

Fruits & Vegetables: Blueberries (5) · Carrots (3) · Broccoli (2) · Raspberries (2) · Lettuce (2) · Banana slices (2) · Cherry tomato (2) · Cucumber (2) · Strawberry (2) · Cauliflower (1) · Corn (1)

Proteins: Beef (3) · Egg (2) · Chicken breast (1) · Salmon (1)

Grains: Brown rice (1 serving) · Whole grain bow-tie pasta (1 serving)

Dairy: Milk bottle (1)

Also in every kit: 1 reusable teaching plate (choose your version below) · free Build-a-Plate app access · Leader Guide & Activity Book (PDF, emailed at checkout) · welcome & care insert card.

Multiple pieces of the produce and proteins mean no two plates have to look alike. Our chicken, salmon, brown rice, and bow-tie pasta models are designed and finished in our own studio. Durable teaching props — not food-safe for eating.

Choose your plate: MyPlate (general audiences), Diabetes plate (carb-aware counseling), Portion plate (weight management), or Rainbow plate (kids & schools).