Nutrition - Food Groups Pyramid Recipes

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After studying the food pyramid, we do a pyramid kabob using one food from each group on a stick. We use cheese cubes, a piece of fruit, piece of a vegetable, small cube of ham, and a bread cube for the grains. We top it off with a mini marshmallow for the fats.
-Lisa

I've done pizzas on English muffins. You can also visit a farm or farmer's market to get veggies. We borrowed bread makers and made a salad and made a vegetable soup in a Visions pot (transparent so the kids can see how the heat makes the vegetables move). I just put my "fifth burner" on a counter where they could see it, but not easily touch it. I've been lucky to have parents who guard the cooking area. Add a rock and you can call it "Stone Soup."
-Nancy Wise

Ants on a log: celery sticks, filled with cream cheese or peanut butter, raisins dotted on top to look like ants. Or make tacos and that's every food group but the sweets.
-Joan Maywalt

Ingredients:

• ½ cup peanut butter
• ½ cup honey
• ½ cup carob powder
• ½ cup wheat germ, toasted
• 1 cup chopped peanuts
• ½ cup sunflower seeds

Procedure:

Combine all the ingredients and roll into 1 inch balls. Chill until firm.

Be sure you have no students with peanut allergies.

Ingredients:

• applesauce or pureed peaches, bananas, apricots, or a combination of these

Procedure:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Pour sauced fruit into a greased shallow pan. Spread to 1/8" thickness. Place in oven and lower the temperature to 180 degrees Fahrenheit. Cook for about 3 hours. Peel leather from the pan and cut with scissors.

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