MyPlate
Fruits, Vegetables and Grains
Label Reading
Kitchen Smarts
Planning Family Meals
100

This fruit is crunchy and good in fruit salads.

What are apples?

100

There are many types of this dish. The most common is made by mixing dark leafy greens and other vegetables in a bowl.

What is a salad?

100

We should be careful about consuming too much of these on a label


What are sugars and sodium?

100

We should always do this and put on gloves before handling our food

What is hand washing?

100

Name 2 ways to save money on fruits and vegetables.

What are comparing prices for fresh, frozen, and canned fruits and vegetables? What is buying in season?

200

This is a vegetable, and it is widely used in salads, the color is green.

What is a cucumber?

200

Green leafy vegetables. They taste good in pasta.

What is spinach?

200

The nutrition label facts are based on this.

What is one serving?

200

We should always point this tool away from us and to the side of us at all times

What is a knife?

200

Name one way to preserve fruits and vegetables to cook with later on.

What is freezing foods?

300

quinoa, oatmeal, steel-cut oats, barley, whole wheat bread or pasta has less carbs than white pasta

What are grains?

300

multigrain bread, wheat flour or wheat pasta

What is a whole grain?

300

these are foods that should be limited that we should watch out for

What are saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, and sodium?

300

We should use this part of the stove to cook our hot foods on the stove placement

What is a back burner?
300

Ways to cook our foods without over salting it. 

What are seasonings?

400

beans, nuts, seeds, ground turkey, chicken have nutrients that our body needs to survive

What is protein?

400

A red vegetable that we used to cook with.

What are bell peppers?

400

These can help you to read labels follow a healthy diet and choose nutritious foods.

What are nutrition facts?

400

We should do this while cooking instead of piling up dishes and leaving them until the very end.

What is cleaning up as you go?

400

This determines how much money is being spent on food

What is a budget?

500

foods that contain milk, cheese, and yogurt

What is dairy?

500

Sweet juicy and yellow inside. We used them to make salsas.

What are pineapples?

500

the part of the label that is next to the nutrition facts.

What are ingredients?

500

Name one meal you could make using a framework instead of an exact recipe.

What is pasta, stir fry, casserole or soup.

500

We usually use this method to feed larger families and make meals stretch for longer periods of time.

What are double portions?