Foods and home making

If you must have candy, eat it at the close of a meal — as the dessert of your meal. Candy eaten between meals is very irri- tating to the organs of digestion. Milk and cocoa, the beverages recommended to you for break- fast (see page 67), may be used for luncheon. To sum up <5ur discussion regarding luncheons, soups , vege- tables, meat substitutes, whole-wheat breads, fruit, and milk or FOOD RECORD COCOa make a" e“eUent school lunch. You should remember to select for your luncheon at least one hot dish. How can you have a luncheon contest ? When you play a game of basket ball, it is fun to win the game. The average person who plays a game likes to win. How would you like to play a health game and gain points in playing this game? By experimenting with animals and in other ways, wise per- sons have found that milk, fruits, and vegetables should be used in one’s diet every day. Of course, there are other foods that we should eat, such as meat, cereals, and bread. But many per- sons eat enough of these foods. The foods that are more likely to be neglected are these three foods just mentioned. Since milk, fruits, and vegetables are necessary to our best work and good spirits, the health game consists of eating these foods every day for luncheon. Each serving of milk, vegetable, or fruit counts one point. The pupils having the most points at the end of a month or a semester win the game. Milk Fruits Vegetables Figure 80. A Checking Slip Lunch at School — The Box Lunch 225 In almost all games some one wins and many lose. In the health game everybody getting any points at all gets some credit. The points are counted in this way : One of the pupils whom the teacher appoints stands just beyond the cash register or the table in the school lunch room where you pay for your food. If you have milk, a vegetable, or fruit on your tray, you show your tray to the pupil whom the teacher appointed. This pupil has slips of paper as shown in Figure 80. She also has a punch. She will give you a slip punched to indicate the food you have on your tray. Place your name on this slip and keep it. The following day or the first day following on which you have a home-economics lesson, give the slip to your teacher. Your home-economics teacher will have posted in the classroom a record card on which your name is placed. (See Figure 81.) If your slip is punched three times, i.e., if you had on your tray milk, fruit, and vegetable, your teacher will place a gold star after your name. The gold star counts three points. If your slip is punched twice, a blue star will be placed after your name. The blue star counts two points. If your slip is punched but once, a red star will be placed after your name. The red counts one point. Doubtless, it will be easy to select foods which will give you three points. The checking in the lunch room may be done each school day Class MILK, VEGETABLE, FRUIT CHART Red star, 1 point; blue star, 2 points: gold star, 3 points 1 2 JJ _4 Figure 81. A Card for Recording Credits for Milk, Fruits, and Vege- tables This card should be long enough to take the names of all the members of a class or section. 226 Luncheon or Supper or it may be done once a week. The points may be counted at the end of a week, a month, or a semester.1