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1. Weigh children.

2. Look over health records.

3. Talk on subject.

A. General discussion.

1. Typical breakfasts which the children now have.

2. Call for examples from the children.

B. Plan Model Breakfast.

1. Milk.

2. Fruit (baked apple, stewed prunes, oranges, stewed pears).

3. Cereal (cooked cereal in winter and prepared cereal in summer is preferable).

a) Examples of cooked cereals: Oatmeal, Pettijohn, Quaker Oats, Cream of Wheat, Malt Breakfast Food, H-O.

b) Examples of prepared cereal: Grape Nuts, Corn Flakes, Shredded Wheat, Force, Puffed Wheat.

c) If Eagle Brand is used on cereal, sugar should be eliminated.

4. Toast.

5. Egg (optional).

4. Make a Breakfast Poster. (See opposite page.)

A. Teacher or children to bring in material cut out from magazine advertising.

B. Suggested names for poster.

1. "This is What I Had for Breakfast; What Did You Have?"

5. Give out tags.

6. Put stars on chart.