Breakfast Activity: Fresh Cantaloupe
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“Tracy’s Playhouse Child Development Center” has the following children enrolled:
1 - 2 years: 12
3 - 5 years: 30
6 -12 years: 15
The cook at this center plans to serve fresh cantaloupe at breakfast today. She
buys 40 oz. cantaloupe. Using your meal pattern and your Food Buying Guide
page for whole fresh cantaloupe, do the calculation to help her know how much she
must purchase and serve to meet meal pattern requirements.
Ages
# of Children
Serving Size
Total ¼ cups of each age group
1 – 2 yrs.
12
¼ cup
12
3 – 5 yrs.
30
½ cup
60
6 – 12 yrs.
15
½ cup
30
Total number of ¼ cup servings required for all 3 age groups 102
102 (Total 1/4 c. servings all age groups) ÷ 6.74 (1/4 c. servings in a lb.) = 15.13 lbs.
Round up to 16
lbs.
We now have the lbs. of cantaloupe we need, but how do we determine the # of
cantaloupe to buy? Since the cantaloupe is purchased by ounces, in this case,
40 oz., we want to convert the lbs. to ounces: 16 lbs. X 16 ounces per lb. = 256
oz.in 16 lb.
Since each cantaloupe weighs approximately 40 ounces, we would divide our
total ounces purchased, 256 ounces by 40 ounces per cantaloupe = 6.4
cantaloupe.
Round up to 7 cantaloupe