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Thought I'd post a video of the food challenge we had a couple weeks (or was it months?) ago.




This is our attempt (successful by a few people) to eat 6 Saltine crackers in 60 seconds. We also attempted to eat a spoonful of cinnamon, eat a piece of white bread in under 45 seconds and we played Fluffy Bunny. It was a fun, messy, and hilarious day that I'm getting hungry just thinking about!

As a segue into books, here are a few YA books that deal with food:

Cooking Up a Storm by Sam Stern
Dear, Julia by Amy Bronwen Zemser

Shy sixteen-year-old Elaine has long dreamed of being the next Child, to the dismay of her feminist mother, but when her first friend, the outrageous Lucida Sans, convinces Elaine to enter a cooking contest, anything could happen.
Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs by Rozanne Gold and her All Star Team

Step-by-step instructions and cooking tips are compiled in this cookbook for teens that features more than eighty recipes for healthy, tasty meals, treats, and desserts.

Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have by Allen Zadoff

Fifteen-year-old Andrew Zansky, the second fattest student at his high school, joins the varsity football team to get the attention of a new girl on whom he has a crush.

Chew on this : the unhappy truth about fast food by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson

My saucy stuffed ravioli : the life of Angelica Cookson Potts by Cherry Whytock

While preparing for and going on vacation to Italy with her friends and family, food-loving English teenager Angelica deals with her unrequited love for Sydney, her fear of being seen in public in a bikini, and her worries that her mother might be havingan affair. Includes recipes.

Fat Boy Swim by Catherine Forde

Teased and abused for being grossly overweight, Jimmy, a fourteen-year-old Scottish teenager who dreams mysterious dreams and secretly aspires to become a chef, decides to turn his self-loathing life around by learning how to swim.


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