Breakfast Activity: Fresh Cantaloupe
“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 for each age grp
1 - 2 yrs.
___________
___________
__________________________
3 – 5 yrs.
___________
___________
__________________________
6 – 12 yrs.
___________
___________
__________________________
Total number of ¼ cup servings required for all 3 age groups ____________
_____ (Total 1/4 c. servings all age groups) ÷ _____ (1/4 c. servings in a lb.) = _______ lbs.
Round up to ______ 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: _____lbs. X 16 ounces per lb. = _____ oz.
Since each cantaloupe weighs approximately 40 ounces, we would divide our total
ounces purchased, _____ounces by 40 ounces per cantaloupe = _____cantaloupe.
Round up to 7 cantaloupe