Foods We Eat


❉ Now on the blackboard write the names of all the

 food items that you have written on your plate.

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 ❉  Did all the children in the class eat the same food

items yesterday? Why?

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 ❉  You must have noticed that in the picture (Page 36)

there is one child in whose house no food was cooked.

What could be the reason?

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 ❉  Has it ever happened to you that on some day you

were very hungry but there was nothing to eat? If yes,

why ?

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 ❉  How do you know that you are hungry?

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 ❉  How do you feel when you are hungry?

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 ❉  Why was Dadi not able to climb the stairs quickly?

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 ❉ How does Dadi like to have her dal?

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 ❉  How many persons in the story can eat bhutta easily

and why?

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 ❉  Can all old people eat bhutta? Why?

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 ❉  For four months Chhutki will have only her mother’s

milk. That is her only food. Why?

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Ask your elders and fill in the table.

                  What can they eat                            What they can not eat

Child         _______________                             __________________

                  _______________                             __________________

Young       _______________                              __________________

                  _______________                              __________________

Old            _______________                              __________________

                  _______________                              __________________

So this was about things that we can or cannot eat. Do

we eat all the things that we can eat? Not always.

Let us talk about those things that we do eat.

Put 〇 on the things that you eat often.

rice                 wheat               barley              oats

maize              millet         kappa (tapioca)     ragi

Most of our food is made of these things. Depending

on what grows easily at which place, different things are

eaten at different places.

Find out where each of these things is eaten more.

We not only eat different things but we also use

the same things to prepare a variety of food

items. Find out and write what all can be

prepared from rice and wheat.


How many things did you write? Similarly, different pulses,
vegetables, fruits, meat, etc., are eaten in different places. People
have different likes and dislikes. Let us talk about it.

Likes and dislikes

Write the names of three food items you like to eat and
 three that you dislike. 

Like              _________________  _________________  _______________  ________________


Dislike          _________________  _________________  _______________  ________________

Are your likes and dislikes similar to that of

 ♦ your family members? Ans

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 ♦ your friends?

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What are the reasons that decide what we eat? Put a ‘ü’ on

them. Add to the list

 ♦ What is easily available.

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 ♦  What we can buy.

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 ♦ Customs and traditions.

Ans:

 ♦ ________________________

 ♦  ________________________

❉ Names of some things are given below. Put a ‘ü’ on
the things that can be eaten. If you are not sure
about anything you may ask your teacher.

Banana flowers         ⬜                          Hen’s eggs     ⬜                              Cauliflower⬜
Drumstick flowers    ⬜                      Leaves of Arvi  ⬜                                          Meat⬜
Mushroom                                                    Rat             ⬜                          Seeds of onion⬜
                                                                                                                          (Kalonji )
    Lotus stem             ⬜                            Fish             ⬜                                          Crab⬜
    Red ants                 ⬜                                  Frog      ⬜                                         Grass⬜
    Leftover chapati    ⬜                                   Amla    ⬜                               Coconut oil⬜
    Camel's milk          ⬜                                Chapati  ⬜                                     Chapati⬜
                                           made of Bajra                             made of gram

❉ Write the names of some food items that you have
 never eaten before but feel like eating 

____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ 

____________ ____________ ____________ ____________