[doorbell ringing] (children) ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Won't you be my friend?

♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Let's say it again.♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Won't you be my friend?♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Now you are my friend.♪ ♪♪♪ ♪H-E-L-L-O♪ ♪That's a word we all should know.♪ ♪H-E-L-L-O♪ ♪You can say it.♪ ♪Just say hello.♪ ♪♪♪ Hey!

There's Mr. Chuck!

Well, hello, friend!

Hello, Mr. Chuck!

♪♪♪ Hello, friends.

How do you like my hat?

Let's take a closer look.

As you can see, I've got carrots, tomato, lettuce, oh and an eggplant.

Have you ever eaten eggplant?

It's good.

Let's see what else we have here.

There's some bread and oh, there's some cheese.

And there's an apple, an orange, a lemon and a lime.

Hey, that has a ring to it.

♪♪♪ ♪An apple, an orange, a lemon and a lime.♪ Let's look at these one at a time.

♪This apple is red.♪ ♪It's color is red.♪ ♪This orange is orange.♪ ♪It's color is orange.♪ ♪This lemon is yellow.♪ ♪It's color is yellow.♪ ♪This lime is green.♪ ♪It's color is green.♪ ♪You see what I mean?♪ ♪We've got an apple, an orange, a lemon and a lime.♪ ♪We've got an apple, an orange, a lemon and a lime.♪ ♪Let's look at these one more time.♪ ♪This apple is red.♪ ♪It's color is red.♪ ♪This orange is orange.♪ ♪It's color is orange.♪ ♪This lemon is yellow.♪ ♪It's color is yellow.♪ ♪This lime is green.♪ ♪It's color is green.♪ ♪You see what I mean?♪ ♪We've got an apple, an orange, a lemon and a lime.♪ ♪An apple, an orange, a lemon and a lime.♪ ♪I do this kind of stuff all the time.♪ ♪An apple, an orange, a lemon and a lime.♪ ♪♪♪ (children) Hmmm.

♪♪♪ Food.

F-O-O-D Food.

♪♪♪ (man) What vegetables do you guys like?

(man) What is your favorite vegetable?

Broccoli.

(man) s your favorite vegetable, Jordan?

Well...

I was about to say pizza but pizza's not a vegetable.

No pizza is not a vegetable, but it is a food that's lots of fun.

Oh, it smells so good when it first comes out of the oven.

I really like pizza.

Oh, and I like stories about pizza.

Once upon a time there was a king.

The king liked many things like reading, and playing checkers but the thing he liked best was eating.

And when he ate he only liked one thing.

Pepperoni pizza.

Thin crispy crust, sauce, cheese and pepperoni.

Lots and lots of pepperoni.

The king even liked it cold for breakfast.

One night after supper the royal chef That's me.

discovered there was a problem.

The person who made the sauce sent a note that said she had run out of tomatoes and couldn't make any more sauce.

And what was worse, the cheese maker sent a note saying that the milk had gone sour and they couldn't make any more cheese.

And what was even worse, the butcher who supplied the pepperoni sent a note saying there was no pepperoni left anywhere in the kingdom.

There was only the dough for the crust.

And a few odds and ends lying around on the kitchen shelf.

"Oh no," I thought.

I can't make pepperoni pizza with just crust.

This is terrible.

This is serious.

I could lose my job.

Or even my head!

Oh.

♪♪♪ I stared at the dough and thought and thought and thought about the problem.

I know.

I'll make something wonderful to eat that looks just like pepperoni pizza.

Maybe the king will take a bite and like it before he notices the difference.

So I went to work.

I worked all through the night to come up with something that tasted great but looked just like pepperoni pizza.

[rooster crowing] By morning I was done.

I sure hope this works.

♪♪♪ I held my breath as the king took his first bite.

And then a second, and a third.

The king smiled.

♪♪♪ This is the best pepperoni pizza I've ever had.

I don't think you've ever used this recipe before have you?

No sire, it's a new recipe.

It's very good.

I hope you'll make it like this again sometime.

Well yes, sire, I certainly will.

After the king finished his breakfast, I told him the truth.

That what he had eaten and liked so much was not pepperoni pizza after all.

He was surprised but he wasn't angry.

He was glad to learn that there are many other foods that taste just as good as pepperoni pizza.

He was also interested to know that eating a bunch of different kinds of foods is much healthier than eating only one thing all the time.

In fact he gave me this medal.

By now you probably want to know how I made pepperoni pizza without any sauce, cheese or pepperoni.

Well that's my little secret, but if you use your imagination I'll bet you can think of your own recipe.

What's your favorite food?

My favorite food is pepperoni pizza.

My favorite food is spaghetti.

I like spaghetti because the noodles are good and the sauce is good also.

My favorite food is shrimp.

My favorite food in the whole wide world is hamburgers and pizza.

My favorite food is Chucky Fried Chicken and I like to dip my chicken nuggets in the dip and in the gravy.

That's so yummy.

My favorite food is my mommy's tuna noodle casserole.

My favorite food is cantaloupe, hot dogs and drumsticks.

Drumstick.

My favorite food is pizza.

I like cheese the best and I like pepperoni and sausage.

Say, that gives me an idea.

Get your family together and have Make Your Own Pizza Night.

Yes.

Get some pizza dough, cheese, tomato sauce and lots of fun ingredients and let everyone put their favorite toppings on their own pizza.

That would be family fun with food.

Of course you can't make pizza every night but you can make pretend pizza.

♪♪♪ Just take a paper plate and color it like a pizza.

I've colored this part of the plate like the crust and here I've got red and yellow, like the sauce and cheese.

Now friends, I'm going to add different ingredients.

I've cut them out of construction paper.

The round shapes are pepperoni and these little squares Of course you don't have to use exactly what I'm using.

You can make the ingredients you like best.

Now I'm going to glue these onto the plate.

I think I'll use one...two... three pieces of pepperoni.

♪♪♪ And how about one, two, three, four black olives?

♪♪♪ And then I'll fill in the blank spaces with green peppers.

♪♪♪ Now let's see how many pieces of green pepper I used.

One, two, three, four, five.

Five pieces of green pepper and four black olives and three slices of pepperoni.

That looks good enough to eat but of course it's only paper and we can't eat it.

But we can pretend.

♪♪♪ (girl) This is my pizza.

It's a pizza for a cat.

A mouse head and pepperoni.

[cat meowing] (woman) In this picture there are two oranges and three apples but which is more?

Well, there are more apples because...

In this picture which is more?

The bananas or the apples?

Let's count the bananas.

Five bananas.

Now let's count the apples.

Three apples.

There are more bananas because... Well, we're going to make some fun snacks that are easy to make and healthy to eat and they taste good, too.

They're snacks that you can make with a little help from a grownup.

First we have something called bugs on a log.

Oh, I know you might be saying when did bugs become a healthy snack?

Well don't panic.

There aren't really any bugs in it.

Just raisins.

Now to make bugs on a log, you need celery.

You'll need some peanut butter or if you like you could use some cream cheese.

Then of course you'll have to have some raisins.

They're very important.

Raisins and a dull knife which we have here.

First you can help your mom or dad wash the celery.

Then let them use a sharp knife to cut off the top and pull off any stringy stuff.

Then you'll be ready to make bugs on a log.

Right here in the curve part of the celery you're going to spread the peanut butter.

♪♪♪ Then you put on the bugs, also known as raisins.

One...two...three...four And there you have it.

Bugs on a log.

And next we'll have banana crunch.

I like bananas, don't you?

They're a very healthy snack all by themselves.

But if you want to add a little crunch here's how.

For this you'll need bananas, wheat germ, rounded end toothpicks and a dull knife we've got right here.

First you peel the banana and cut it into bite size pieces.

This is something you can easily do but you must be careful.

♪♪♪ Then you spear each banana chunk with a toothpick.

♪♪♪ And finally you roll the bananas in the wheat germ.

♪♪♪ That looks good, doesn't it.

I think I'll try one.

[drum roll] Mmm.

That is good and crunchy.

♪♪♪ ♪I like to brush my teeth.♪ ♪I like to brush my teeth.♪ ♪And when I brush my teeth it feels so good.♪ ♪By brushing north and south♪ ♪I make a brighter mouth.♪ ♪I squeeze toothpaste out just as I should♪ ♪And then brush my teeth.♪ ♪I like to brush my teeth.♪ ♪And when I brush my teeth I like to smile.♪ ♪When the eating stops my jaw just drops♪ ♪and I clean those chops in the proper style.♪ ♪Just like this.♪ ♪♪♪ ♪Side to side, now up and down.♪ ♪Make that brush go round and round.♪ ♪♪♪ ♪I think I'll brush my teeth.♪ ♪I like to brush my teeth♪ ♪And when I brush my teeth there's no denial.♪ ♪I keep my molars clean like you've never seen.♪ ♪I even floss between once in a while.♪ ♪And when I brush my teeth I like to smile.♪ Mealtime can be a time of sharing for parents and young children.

But you know, sometimes we can have difficulty making mealtime a positive experience.

We find it becomes easy to make non-nutritious foods the only fun food there is.

Today on Parent's Corner we have Brenda Speight, a registered dietician to talk about ways we can make healthy foods more appealing to our children.

Would you like to make mealtime a happier time for you and your children?

Let's talk about it now.

Let's begin by remembering three key points, balance, variety and moderation.

When we speak about balance we want to remember the food guide pyramid.

The food guide pyramid helps us to plan all the important foods that our children need at each of their different meals.

Let's also remember variety.

You know, they say variety is the spice of life.

The first point in variety is color.

Children love color very much and their food will be much more appealing to them if we have variety in color.

A red apple, green beans and golden yellow corn.

Let's also talk about texture.

A child likes to feel different kinds of things in their mouth, lumpy, crunchy and smooth.

The third area in variety is flavor.

What more than if your food tastes good to you with sweet, maybe a little sour and also a bitter flavor.

All of those components in variety will make your child's meal much, much more appealing.

Our last area of course is moderation.

Now do you think we're talking about putting your children on a diet?

No.

No child should really be dieting now.

They're growing so they need all of the food that they possibly can have in the right amounts.

Imagine a two or a three year old eating from an adult sized plate.

Very large with large portions.

It could be very overwhelming.

What about a child sized plate.

That seems better with smaller portions, maybe teaspoon sizes.

That way your child will eat all of the food up at each mealtime.

Always remember when you are planning meals for your children those three key components.

Balance, variety and moderation.

Well, that's about all the time we have for today, so friends until next time, have fun with food.

So long.

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