Student Instructions

Name __________________________________

Healthy Scrambling

Unscramble all of the foods below. They are all foods that might be part of a healthy diet.

1.	briwaserters	_______________	28.	crobicol	_______________
2.	turgoy	_______________	29.	chinaps	_______________
3.	culttee	_______________	30.	saym	_______________
4.	ciknech	_______________	31.	sargone	_______________
5.	shif	_______________	32.	pepsal	_______________
6.	rotcars	_______________	33.	calgri	_______________
7.	kilm	_______________	34.	elovi loi	_______________
8.	rebda	_______________	35.	motetosa	_______________
9.	frugiprate	_______________	36.	yertuk	_______________
10.	madslon	_______________	37.	eslirubereb	_______________
11.	alcree	_______________	38.	tebes	_______________
12.	stapa	_______________	39.	seburssl upsorst	_______________
13.	sgeg	_______________	40.	nupres	_______________
14.	nionos	_______________	41.	narsisi	_______________
15.	shormomus	_______________	42.	malaeto	_______________
16.	sepalojan	_______________	43.	sepatoot	_______________
17.	zorgaban nabes	_______________	44.	werficaulol	_______________
18.	acheeps	_______________	45.	snikmupp	_______________
19.	volesi	_______________	46.	wornb cire	_______________
20.	ochaterski	_______________	47.	galptneg	_______________
21.	elan korp	_______________	48.	ronc	_______________
22.	der repepp	_______________	49.	niprut segren	_______________
23.	crumbcue	_______________	50.	yabler	_______________
24.	ignerg	_______________
25.	grusasapa	_______________
26.	abasnan	_______________			“Health food
27.	futo	_______________
					makes me sick.”

—Calvin Trillin

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Student Instructions

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Chocolate Mashed Potatoes

What food stories are told in your family? Do you talk about a time when everything went wrong with a special dinner or a special dish? Do you all reminisce about your late great-grandmother’s wonderful homemade ravioli? Did something funny happen to your brother at a restaurant?

Do you laugh at how you all hated to eat at your mom’s best friend’s house when you were younger—all because she drowned everything in really awful gray gravy?

One Seattle man always tells his grandchildren about the time his mom was away from home and his dad cooked dinner. He was getting ready to mash the potatoes when he discovered they were out of milk. They had chocolate milk, though, so he made the potatoes with that. They turned out brown, and his son still talks about those chocolate mashed potatoes.

Write about a food story shared in your family. Talk to relatives if you need some help thinking of one. If you can’t think of anything at all, share any kind of memory you have of an occasion

that involved food—maybe a special birthday meal, the time you got food poisoning, the pumpkins you grew in your backyard, etc.

“All I really

need is love, but a little

chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt!”

—Lucy Van Pelt in Peanuts

by Charles M. Schulz

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Student Instructions

Name __________________________________

Syllable Challenge

How many one-syllable foods can you list? How many two-syllable foods? Three-syllable foods? Four-syllable foods?

Give yourself one point for every one-syllable food, two points for every two-syllable food, three points for every three-syllable food, and four points for every four-syllable food. Each food must be only one word (no two-word foods like hot dog). See if you can score at least 100 points.

The lists below will help you get started.

One-Syllable Foods		two-syllable Foods		Three-Syllable Foods		Four-Syllable Foods
1.	soup	1.	waffle	1.	banana	1.	huckleberry
2.	milk	2.	spinach	2.	potato	2.	cauliflower

“Our language is funny—a fat chance and a slim chance are the same thing.”

—J. Gustav White

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Student Instructions

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Help Hungry Henry’s

Read through the menu below.

ENTREES		SIDES
Meat Loaf .................................	$6.00	Mashed Potatoes	......................$4.00
Fried Chicken............................	$5.00	Fries ..........................................	$3.00
Hamburger ...............................	$4.00	Green Beans.............................	$2.00
Hot Dog ....................................	$3.00	Coleslaw ...................................	$1.00

There isn’t anything fancy about this menu. It’s completely straightforward and clear.

It’s also rather boring. Maybe that’s why Hungry Henry’s Food Shack hasn’t been doing well since it opened up, even though people who have eaten there say it’s the best food they have ever tasted. The employees at Hungry Henry’s think the problem is the lackluster menu.

Help Hungry Henry’s Food Shack drum up business by adding some pizzazz to their menu. Rename each item. Then use vivid descriptions to make each one sound like the most delicious

dish ever created. Remember to use complete sentences. The more specific details you add, the better. The first one is done for you in the example below.

Example

Mom’s Meat Loaf

This extraordinary meat loaf made of premium quality meats is seasoned and thick, and covered in mouth-watering gravy—just like

“Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!”

—Tommy Smothers

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