Give Me Five

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Give Me Five
By Claytina Shepherd
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Knead Dough?
Bread Cereal Group
Go Foods, are foods that provide energy to help
us go, work and play.
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Rainbow Picks
Fruit and Vegetable Group
Glo Foods, are high in vitamins and
minerals, they help us feel good so we feel like
glowing with good health.
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Milky Way
Milk Group
The Milk Group is one of our Grow Foods, which
helps build strong bones and teeth.
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Protein Power
Meat Group
Grow Foods, also include the meat and meat
alternate group. They provide high amounts of
protein that build strong muscles. These foods
help us grow.
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Simply Sweet
Fats, Oils Sweets
This group supplies calories, but few vitamins or
minerals, it is recommended that these foods be
use sparingly.
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Water
Please also remember the importance of water as
a key component to the Food Guide Pyramid. Drink
a minimum of 8-10 one cup servings every day.
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Serve It Up
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In a sunny meadow in an apple tree live the
Critter Kids, as you can see. They wake in the
morning ready to play and sleep in their
hammocks at the end of the day. And what do they
do when they're not asleep? Well, one sure
thing, they love to eat! Food fills their
tummies and gives them zing to climb and slide
and jump and swing.
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The Kids find food in their five treehouses each
full of goodies to fill their mouth-ses. Can you
find the Bread House? The roof is blue. Do you
see the Fruit House and the Vegetable, too?
At the Tree Top see the Milk and the Meat --
Let's count them once more, use the toes on your
feet. Or count on your fingers, they add up to
five Five Food Groups we'll call 'em. now lets
look inside.
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Inside the Bread House are foods made from wheat.
Also corn, rye, and barley rice and buckwheat.
Tina Tiger loves noodles Brandy Bunny loves
toast Carlos Cat loves tortillas and cereal from
oats. At the Fruit House,
apple juices are flowing and right
through the floor pineapples are growing. In
bowls on the table are raisins
and grapes, with oranges and pears
sliced up on a plate.
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The Vegetable House is full of good stuff,
with french fried
potatoes and tomato ketchup. Try carrots and
cabbage and broccoli trees, squash and
asparagus -- and don't forget the peas! About
veggies and fruits, the Kids sing this song
"Eat 5 a Day to feel good all day long. It's
fun to munch veggies and fruits at our meals.
They crunch, mush and squirt and even have
peels."                 
Carlos the Cat has the 5 a Day knack "A banana
for breakfast, apple for snack. A carrot at
lunch, then it's taters for dinner, a dessert of
strawberries for a day that's a winner."
Up in the Milk House are yogurt and cheese, plus
milk in all flavors and all of it's free. These
foods grow a kid with hard bones and strong
teeth. To try all the cheeses would take a whole
week.
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The Meat House next door serves hamburgers
galore. Also eggs, navy beans, peanut butter and
more. Ham, chicken and tuna and drumsticks of
turkey, there's even a cupboard chock full of
beef jerky.                
The foods in the Meat House are full of protein,
a thing you can't see, but it's really quite
keen. It helps us grow muscles, eyelashes and
skin, the hair on our heads and on Daddy's chin.
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And now for an ending we hope you'll think
neat-o, the Critter Kids baked up a pizza
supremo. A food from each house you'll find in
the meal. Count them all up, then give out a
squeal.