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Ilse`s Menu:
Breakfast: A banana,
strawberry or any shake. (300
calories Approx.)
Lunch: Soup (lentils, noodle,
etc.) Chicken/meat. With rice,
pasta, salad, etc. (650 or 750
calories Approx.)
Snack: Granola Bar (60 calories
Approx.)
Dinner: Eggs, tuna or
quesadillas (450 calories
Approx.)
Andrea’s Menu:
Breakfast: 1 egg with ham and
a piece of bread (450 calories
Approx.)
Lunch: A piece of meat some
vegetables and a spoon of rice
(600-700 calories Approx.)
Snack: an apple (80 calories
Approx.)
Dinner: A juice of papaya with
pineapple (350 calories
Approx.)
Natalia ́s Menu:
Breakfast: 1 cup of melon with
cottage cheese. (300 calories
Approx.)
Lunch: Cup of rice and
vegetables. A piece of meat
(600-700 calories Approx.)
Snack: Apple and a granola bar
(125 calories Approx.)
Dinner: cereal with half banana
(375 calories Approx.)

During this activity we learned
how to create a menu based
on the calories we need. Also
we noticed that it ́s not good
to have a menu with lot ́s of
calories or with a few, because
its important to know how to
balance it, including all the
types of foods in an equal
proportion. Try to have a
healthy menu that contains
the sufficient calories for us to
have energy to work. Each of
the menu ́s we created is
different but at the same time
all contain mostly the same
amount of calories that a girl
of our age should eat.

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