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Healthy Diet and Living; Wednesday, Period One [ 06/24 ].

"Well," said Daisy, at the start of class, where she had a smile with her and a whole lot of fruit, "it's our last meeting and before we get started on anything I have to thank the five of you for being such a good," mostly, "class. This whole teaching bit was new to me, and I don't feel any more insane coming out of it than I did going in, so I'll take that as a good sign. So today, after we've shared your recipes, I've found my own to share, for chocolate cupcake. Yes. For breakfast. But they're low fat and if you're going to make some, you've got to have plenty of fruit here to go with it. I'll call it meeting you half-way, for having such a good workshop."

"So, then, let's to it. Share your recipe if you brought on in, and then help yourself to make some cupcakes or some smoothies or just have some fruit, and, again, thanks for being a good class you guys. It was definitely...interesting."

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Finitely.

Alex Karev

Maron Kusakabe

Angela Montenegro

Penelope Wilhern

Claudia Kishi

There's always talking bits. And there's fruit to munch on during the talking bits, too.

Alex grabbed an apple, pulled out the recipe he'd found and idly listened to the short lecture. Healthy food or not, it was always nice to get free food first thing in the morning.

Maron nibbled on some orange slices while she listened.

If you've brought one in, here's the time to share your recipe with the class. The whole idea was to bring in a healthy one, but...we'll just put it nicely and say that Daisy was willing to offer a shadow of a doubt about that happening with some.

Alex was proud of himself for both finding a pizza recipe that was healthy and still pizza. "White pizza (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/white-pizza-recipe/index.html)," he said. "There's cheese, garlic, basil and other stuff on a pizza crust. You miss the tomato sauce and other things but it's still pizza."

"You can also use a wheat flour in your dough," Daisy added with a small smile, "and make it better that way, too. Not a bad choice at all, Alex."

Maron grinned. "Watermelon Summer Salad (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Watermelon-Summer-Salad/Detail.aspx)," she said brightly, "which is both pretty healthy, and rather appropriate time-wise. It's a bit weird, because it's got red onion, watermelon, mint, and olives in it," which was rather interesting, she thought, for a salad, "but super tasty!"

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"That's a wonderful idea for a salad," said Daisy. "And I bet it's particularly nice on a hot day. For a picnic or something, innit?"

"Definitely," Maron said brightly. "And it's a nice change from a more usual salad, you know? So you don't get bored with the same healthy thing day-to-day."

Enthusiasm from Maron about healthy things. How could Daisy not chuckle proudly? "Exactly. And there's no shortage in variety when it comes to healthy eating if you really think about it."

She nodded. "It's just when you're starting out that it's a problem because you're doing such a big change that you trip over all the things you can't eat and wind up feeling like there's nothing to pick at all!"

"I brought in a recipe for a breakfast sandwich (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ellie-krieger/healthy-breakfast-sandwich-recipe/index.html) because I normally eat Ho Ho's in the morning," she explained, smiling. "I did in fact try this recipe and it is surprisingly good." She just wasn't sure she'd quit eating her Ho Ho's.

Daisy needed a moment here. She knew she should be prepared for that sort of thing in this class, but she was pretty sure her heart actually stopped for a moment at Ho Ho's in the morning.

"And much, much better for you," she finally managed to say once she had a look at the recipe. "There's actually quite a few things that you need to get a good start on your morning there. Well done, Penelope."

She smiled. "Thank you, Miss Daisy. I've appreciated this class very much and will certainly take what I've learned, including delicious recipes, with me and use them as I wish."

"I brought in a chocolate cake recipe," Claudia said proudly. "It has peanut butter (http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/molten-chocolate-cake-with-peanut-butter-filling) so that makes it healthy!"

No, not really.

Claudia, Claudia, Claudia... It was a great testament to Daisy's willpower that she was able to keep herself from sighing right out.

"Claudia," she said at great length, "you know that, if...let's say a pool...if it's a little murky, it takes a bit more than just a drop of chlorine to make it clean again, right?"

Bless, she hoped Claudia could grasp metaphor, even if she couldn't grasp health if it slapped her on the face with an early heart attack.

"And, you know, peanut butter's actually got a fair amount of hydrogenated oils, which aren't very good for you..."

Claudia stared at her blankly. "...uh huh?"

"Well," continued Daisy, "eating healthily is a lot like that. You can't just put one drop of a healthy thing in your body and expect the whole thing to be healthy..."

Make some cupcakes, do something with the fruit, or even try someone else's recipe. Either way, you need breakfast.

Alex didn't really feel up to cooking so he sliced another apple and added some (healthy) peanut butter to the slices. Peanut butter made everything better.

She's definitely around for being talked to.

I know it wasn't the most interactive class ever, but, man, you guys were a blast to read in this class. Thank you so much!

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