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=Restaurant Challenge!=

Walk into most restaurants on any given day at "meal time" and you're likely to see people enjoying some food. The trouble is, when you eat at a restaurant, you have little control over the manner in which the food is prepared. You can ask for something grilled, or to have dressing on the side, but there are still a lot of grey areas when it comes to the healthiness of the food. Your challenge is to review the nutritional information for the menus of 1 dining restaurant and 1 fast food chain and select a meal that you can make healthier. From there, see if you can create home versions of one meal from each. These recipes should be added to your group's blog.



Proceedure: 1. Select 1 dining restaurant and 1 sit-down restaurant. 2. Obtain their nutrition information by visiting their web site or requesting a hard copy in person. Some nutritional information is available on the link in the resources area below. 3. Choose two meals, one from each establishment, that you think you can create a better, more healthy version of. 4. Develop a plan for creating your healthier meals, and test them out by preparing them at home. Make good notes of changes made, ingredients used and method of preperation. For nutrition information use the link in the resources area. 5. Add your new recipes to your class Wiki.

Your Recipe Must Include: 1. Ingredients with correct measurements 2. Correct directions for preperation 3. Nutrition information for both the healthy meal and the restaurant meal 4. A photo of the prepared dish 5. A paragraph explaining what you did to made it healthier.

Resources: Restaurant Information: [] Nutrition Information: []