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# Preparing Meals for the Day ## Lesson 9 ### Learning Targets * Discuss ways of preparing nutritious family meals * Identify cooking utensils and materials for food preparation * Demonstrate basic handwork in food preparation as well as cooking methods and procedures * Practice desirable work an...

# Preparing Meals for the Day ## Lesson 9 ### Learning Targets * Discuss ways of preparing nutritious family meals * Identify cooking utensils and materials for food preparation * Demonstrate basic handwork in food preparation as well as cooking methods and procedures * Practice desirable work and safety habits in preparing and cooking food * Take proper care of kitchen tools, utensils, and materials ### Discover * Father comes from the workplace, tired from a day's work, rushes to the kitchen, and asks Mom, "What's cooking?" * Children arrive from school, run to the kitchen, and ask, "What's cooking?" * Have you been doing this too? * Share your exciting queries and comments with your classmates. ### Meal Preparation - Focus and Learn * In spite of the advantages of convenience cooking and ready-to-eat food and instant meals, the preference of many Filipino families is still home-cooked meals. * Many kids love to cook. Are you one of them? * Probably, up to now, you have been acting as your parents' assistant in setting the table, serving meals, or washing the dishes. * This time, be an assistant cook. You can learn more by observation and practice. Help prepare family meals. You will surely learn a lot from experience and have fun. * Well-chosen and well-prepared meals give the body the necessary nutrients and elements for good health and well-being. * Food preparation and cooking improves food appearance. Food is also cooked so that it can be easily chewed or eaten, then, digested by the body. ### Recipes * Many beginner cooks make use of a recipe. A recipe is a guide that contains the list of ingredients, amount or quantity needed, and the procedure or sequence of combining the ingredients involved producing a dish. * Always read a recipe and its directions carefully and thoroughly. Be familiar with common measurements used in cooking.