Abstract: A method of playing a board game that assists a child to eat a healthy, balanced meal includes the steps of: (a) providing a set of food holders that hold a plurality of food items in separate locations; (b) identifying the individual food holders with different visual indicia; (c) providing a spinner device that includes a substrate with a surface that includes a plurality of playing spots that include visual indicia that corresponds to the food holders; (d) spinning a spinner that is above the substrate surface, the spinner having a first end that randomly points to one of the playing spots; (e) directing the player to consume food in one or more food holders in accordance with instructions that are present as part of the playing spot that is pointed to by the first end of the spinner; and (f) repeating the spinning and directing steps.