It's time for a special dinner. Let's take a look at some
of the foods and beverages you might find on the table.
(Click here to download a PDF worksheet to record your answers.)
1. HELP!
These are the people who will
be eating the dinner. What size turkey should the cook buy in order to
have enough meat for 7 adults and 2 children plus have some leftovers
for the next day?
Click on the people to go to the Butterball website where you
can calculate what size your turkey should be. (Look on the right side of the page near the bottom.)
While you're here, you might as well calculate how much stuffing
the cook will need.
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2. Click on the jug to find out how many apples it takes to make one gallon of Apple Cider? |
| 3. Are you surprised to see a flower on the holiday menu? Don't worry. This flower will turn into a vegetable. Click on the flower and write what it will become. |
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4.
You might be interested to know that sweet potatoes
have been around for a very long time. First click on the sweet
potatoes and then click on SweetPotato Trivia to fill in the
blank in the following sentence. Some scientists believe that ____________________ might have eaten sweet potatoes. |
| 5. How much fat content
is found in a sweet
potato? ___________ Put on your headphones. Then click on the hamster to find out. |
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6. As
we all know, the Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in
1621. Click on the dish of mashed potatoes to answer these questions. When did potatoes come to North America? Was it possible for the Pilgrims to have eaten mashed potatoes at the First Thanksgiving? |
| 7. The cook needs HELP again. The gravy is white and not the nice brown color we can see in the picture. Click on the gravy bowl and then scroll down the page to the Gravy Problems section to find out what to do to fix the gravy. |
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| 8. In addition to a nice hot dish of buttered corn, there are many other ways that corn is served at holiday meals such as succotash, corn bread, corn pudding and maybe even popcorn. In fact, there are many uses for corn and not all of them are edible. Click on the corn bread to find out some other uses for corn. List 2 of them here. |
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| 9. Should we
have apple pie or pumpkin pie for dessert? Click on one of the pie pictures to find out which of these two pies is the favorite choice of most Americans? Go to http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2005/11/23/thanksgiving-calorie-list/ to find out which pie is the healthiest. Scroll down the page to the pie section. Look for the one with the lowest calorie and fat count. Which one would you choose? |
Updated November 2009.
BIRCHWOOD'S