Canada Food Guide Cool Homework Tool

• Freebies 4 Canada: "Saturday, May 2, 2009
  Recipe Analyzer -- Free handy online tool
  Cool Tool! Use it for Home Ec or Health projects.

'Welcome to the Recipe Analyzer . Use this tool to:

• Find out the nutrients in recipes,
• Check the number of Food Guide Servings in your recipe,
• Get ingredient substitution tips to make your recipes healthier (low cal, fat, sugar or salt
• Compare your new recipe to your original recipe to see the difference.
• Print your recipe analysis and put it in your own recipe binder
• Store your recipe in your personal 'recipe box' on the Dietitians of Canada website.
  How cool is that!'"

Writing a Procedure

A procedure is a set of directions, written to help a reader complete a task. If the procedure is written correctly, the reader's results will usually be the same as the author's results.

A procedure has the following parts:

Purpose
(What the author is trying to teach you to do-often the title)

Materials list
(What you must have to follow the directions)

Sequential list of steps
(How to do it-sometimes numbered)

Diagrams
(Pictures that help explain the materials, steps, and results.)

Linking words
(Words telling the order -first,next,now,finally)

Subject specific words
(Words for the topic-cooking=stir, roast, brown)

Results
(What you get in the end, what to do with it and any cautions-
directions=Our home is the red brick house on the corner.
Knock loudly on the front door, the back door is for the people
who live downstairs.)

Try writing one of the following types of procedures:

Recipe Driving Directions Magic Trick

Craft Instructions Science Experiment

or

label the parts in one of the above types of procedures