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What to Consider When Planning Meals
- Age of family members.
- Family income
- The available food in the locality.
- The type of work family members does
- The nutrient needs of the family members
Food Good for Breakfast
- Fruit drinks such as Oats or Corn flakes, egg or fish stew, bread and tea.
- Pap/akamu/koko, custard and akara balls.
- Bread or koko or akamu with moinmoin
- Bread and tea, egg or fish stew with fresh fruit or fruit drink.
- Boiled or fried yam with egg and sardine stew, and tea, coffee or cocoa drink.
Food Good For Lunch
- Fried chicken, jellof rice and fruits
- Fish or meat and okro soup with amala or eba and pineapple slices.
- Tuwo masara or tuwo shinkafa with kubewa soup, meat or fish and banana.
- Boiled rice, meat and vegetables stew with fresh fruit
- Pounded yam, egusi soup, meat and fruits.
Food Good For Dinner
- Boiled yam, egg dish and pepper sauce.
- Yan pottage with fish stew and fruits
- Moinmoin with agidi
- Tuwo shinkafa with kuka soup
Menu Planning
Menu is a list of the dishes to be served at a meal.
Qualities of a Good Menu
- It should provide variety.
- It should provide balanced diet.
- It should be suitable for the age and health needs of the person who will eat it.
- It should be suitable for the time of the day.
Examples of a Menu plan
- Breakfast- Bread, Tea, Boiledegg
- Lunch- Fish and Okro soup, Amala, pineapple slices
- Supper- Stewed fish, yam pottage, Hot chocolate
Quiz
- List the food good for breakfast.
- List the food good for lunch
- List the food good for supper
- What should be considered in meal planning?
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