Eating Healthy
Eating Healthy
Eating Healthy
Meg: Hey, Todd. Are you healthy? Do you eat lots of fruits and vegetables?
Todd: I guess I am healthy. I do eat lots of fruits and vegetables, but I also eat
junk food, sadly. But I try to eat lots of fruits especially to stay healthy.
Todd: Well, I like all fruits. I love all fruits except pineapple. I hate pineapple. I
don't know why. I just don't like pineapple. I don't like the taste. I don't like
to chew it. It just feels funny. But I love apples, I love bananas, I love oranges.
I usually have an apple every morning for breakfast. It's very easy to eat. And I
just love apples because you can take them to school. You can eat them
quickly. They're very easy to eat.
I also like oranges, and I love orange juice. So sometimes, I make fresh orange
juice in my kitchen. So oranges are great. But my favorite fruits are bananas
and strawberries. I love bananas and strawberries. And I love to eat bananas
and strawberries together, so my favorite snack is to cut up some banana and
then cut up some strawberry and mix them together, and then eat them.
Todd: I do. I try to have a salad every day, and I have a special salad I make
and I call it my chunky, crunchy salad. And it's carrots, cucumbers and
tomatoes, and I cut the carrots and cucumbers into small little squares. And
then I cut up the tomatoes and I mix together. And the carrots, tomatoes and
cucumbers mixed together, the colors are really pretty. And when you eat the
salad, it's very crunchy and it's very chunky because it's all little squares. So I
call it my crunchy, chunky salad.
Meg: That sounds delicious. Do you ever share it with someone else?
Todd: No, I don't but I want to because I really, I like it so much and I can't
cook. So when I go to somebody's house and I need to bring food, I think, "Oh, I
should bring chunky, crunchy salad."
Meg: Hmm, that's a good idea. Another idea is to cook some vegetables. Do
you cook vegetables?
Todd: Not too much. I do cook asparagus. Asparagus is probably my favorite
vegetable, and it's very easy to cook because asparagus, you just have to cut
up into small pieces. And then you can put the asparagus in a bowl with some
water in the microwave, and you can cook asparagus in about 30 seconds. So I
eat asparagus a lot.
Also, I eat broccoli. I love broccoli. Sometimes I have broccoli and lettuce
together for my salad. And then sometimes, I cook eggplant. I like to cook
eggplant because I like the taste and it's easy to cook.
Todd: Really?
Meg: I don't.
Meg: Yes.
feel funny
It just feels funny.
When something feels funny, it feels awkward or strange. Notice that it does not
mean it makes you laugh. Notice the following:
chunky
When something is chunky it is broken into chunks, or pieces that are still fairly
big. Notice the following:
crunchy
When something is crunchy, it makes a lot of noise when you eat it. Notice the
following:
We use the phrase prefer not to when discussing things we do not like doing,
but we still do sometimes. Notice the following:
as long as
Here, the phrase as long as means that if you do something, you will not have
a problem. If you do not do it, you will have a problem. Notice the following:
veggies
Eat your veggies.
Veggies just means vegetables. We often use the phrases only when talking
about eating vegetables. Notice the following:
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