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=Favorite Food Challenge!=

Everyone has favorite foods. Often times the foods we enjoy eating the most are not the healthiest for us. Your task in this first activity is to research the nutritional information for your favorite foods and find a way to make them healthier.



Procedure:

1. Use the USDA's food pyramid menu planner to plan a one day menu of your favorite foods. []

2. Choose your favorite food from the following categories and enter this into your menu: breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, and dessert. Make sure to choose a realistic quantity of each food that you choose.

3. After entering your foods take a screen shot of your menu planner page which will show the foods that you chose as well as a graph documenting how well you met or exceeded your nutritional needs.


 * (to take a screen shot hold down the command, shift, and number 3 buttons at the same time. This will take a screen shot and save it to your desktop. Upload this screen shot to your blog)

4. On the Menu Planner screen choose the "reports" tab at the top of the page. Choose "food details" and find the food that is highest in total calories. Find a recipe for this food using the following recipe site:

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5. Analyze your recipe from above using this site: [|http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php]

6. Use information from [|http://simpledailyrecipes.com/how-to-make-recipes-healthier/] to figure out ways that you can reduce the calorie content of your original recipe and rewrite it to be healthier.

7. Add your original and revised recipes to your group wiki.

Your Recipe Must Include:

1. Ingredients with correct measurements 2. Correct directions for preparation 3. Nutrition information for both the original recipe and the revised recipe 4. A photo of the prepared dish 5. A paragraph explaining what you did to make your favorite dish healthier.