Meal Preparations

One-dish meal is a food preparation which contains all the food nutrients needed by the body.
Serving one-dish meal saves time and effort.
One-dish viand is made up of protein-rich foods and vegetables with soup.
Preparing one-dish viand will help you serve a nutritious and adequate meal for your family.
Leftovers can be cooked again into other appetizing dishes.
Recycling leftovers will save money and food.

Meal Patterns

Meal patterns are guides in planning meals.
Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is very important meal.
Lunch and supper are meals served at noon and evening, respectively.
Dinner is a meal served either at noon or evening.
It may be plain or fancy.

Food Budget

The amount of money you can spend for food should be considered when planning your meals. You have to apportion the amount carefully to meet your food needs.

Foods are becoming expensive nowadays. In order to supplement your family income, try these pointers.
1. Learn to get food substitutes for those foods whose prices have gone up beyond your reach.
2. Raise your backyard food sources such as vegetables, chickens, and hogs if your space and environment so warrant.
3. Practice economy in buying.
4. Buy only what you need.

Your Guide in Planning Adequate Meals

Your body needs the three basic food groups for growth, strength, and good health.
Energy-giving foods are carbohydrates, fats, and oil.
Carbohydrates come from foods rich in starch and sugar. Fats and oil store energy which your body can use later. They also help you use certain vitamins later.
Meals should provide an adequate amount of food nutrients needed by the body daily.

Eating the right food

Eating the right kinds of food will help you maintain a healthy body.
Your body is healthy when it is free from diseases and you feel strong and active in performing both physical and mental activities.
Good food helps in the proper functioning of body processes such as the beating of the heart, blood circulation, food digestion, absorption, and elimination.

What is cooking?

Cooking is fun...especially to those who want to eat...lol...cooking is very important to one's lives..without cooking people will not survive..

To cook means to prepare for consumption by the action of heat; as by roasting or boiling...

Cookbook is a book containing recipes and instructions for cooking..