Foods and Fitness - Foods/Nutrition I
Families and Food Management

Unit II - Planning Meals with Appeal

Pre-Assessment Using an overhead and the PREASSESSMENT TRANSPARENCY ask the students to examine the following menus for one day and pinpoint the problems they see, if any.

BREAKFAST
Milk
Cornflakes with sliced bananas
Toast
LUNCH
Chili
Crackers
Apple
Water
DINNER
A hamburger
French fries
Shake

PREASSESSMENT KEY

Some possible responses might be:

  • Breakfast is all the same color and barely meets the requirements of MyPyramid.
  • Lunch lacks the milk group.
  • Dinner is high in fat and has no vegetables or fruit.
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