At the base of the food pyramid are grains and fiber. You should eat six to eleven servings of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta everyday. Next up the pyramid are vegetables and fruit; five to nine daily servings from this group are recommended. | foods. At the base of the food pyramid are grains and fiber. You should eat six to eleven servings of bread cereal rice and pasta everyday. Next up the pyramid are vegetables and fruit five to nine daily servings from this group are recommended. The next pyramid level is the dairy group. Two to three servings a day of milk yogurt or cheese help maintain good nutrition. Moving up the pyramid the next level is the meat poultry fish beans eggs and nuts group of which everyone should eat only two to three servings a day. At the very top of the pyramid are fats oils and sweets these foods should be eaten only infrequently. You don t have to shop in health food stores to follow the guidelines. One easy way to plan menus that follow the food pyramid is to shop only in the outer aisles of the grocery store. In most supermarkets fresh fruit and vegetables dairy fresh meat and frozen foods are in the outer aisles of the store. Grains like pasta rice bread and cereal are located on the next aisles the first inner rows. Finally the farthest inside the store is where you ll find chips and snacks cookies and pastries soda pop and drink mixes. These are the kinds of foods that nutritionists say everyone should eat rarely if at all. If you stay in the outer aisles of the grocery store you won t be tempted to buy foods you shouldn t eat and you will find a wide variety of healthy foods to choose from. Another benefit of shopping this way is that grocery shopping takes less time. 1. A good title for this article would be a. How to Shop in a Health Food Store. b. How to Shop Efficiently. c. How to Shop for Healthy Food. d. How to Cook Healthy Food. 2. According to the passage the best way to shop in a grocery store is to a. make a list and stick to it. b. stay in the outer aisles. c. stay in the inner aisles. d. check the newspaper ads for bargains. 3. According to the food pyramid people should a. eat more grains than meat. b. never eat fats and sweets. c. eat mostly vegetarian .
