fandomhigh | Healthy Diet and Living; Monday, Period Five [ 07/06 ].

It was a bit odd, Daisy felt, having this class not first thing in the morning and in the middle of the week, but, despite it being the afternoon, she was still a little tired. It might have a little bit to do with the fact that last night was the only time she had to turn the home ec classroom into a veritable offering of goodies.

And there really was a bunch of food, the fruits of a marathon cooking session last night. Hopefully, it was all normal looking food that they would help themselves to easily without thinking too much on the actual subject of the class, since that sort of ruined the bit Daisy had planned for once class began.

True, it was exactly how she'd done it last time, too, but they were all new kids this time.

She gave them a little time to munch and chat or whatever before she came in in her conservative clothes, the ones she really only wore for plainclothes jobs before she did this whole teaching bit. "Good afternoon!" she greeted them brightly. If you haven't already, help yourself to all the snacks; there's plenty. My name is Daisy Day and hopefully you're all here for my class; if not, stick around anyway and eat some of the food. Most of you seem to be unfamiliar faces, so hopefully that means we'll get to know each other better over these next few weeks. Either way, some of you may know that I'm not normally teacher; I'm normally a police officer at the station, but while I'm here, I'm strictly Daisy. Or Miss Day ~~if you're nasty~~."

"And now onto the point of all this: healthy eating and diet and living! A lot of people have the misconception that eating healthy means eating bland or gross or boring, but this course is to teach you that that is not the case at all. Everything you've been munching on? Healthy for you. And delicious. So, ha. Take that." She gave them all a grin, babbling because, okay, she might have been a little nervous. Still. Even after having done this last time. She knew she probably sounded like a total nerd. "Now, we'll cover different things each week, starting with breakfast, if you'll have a look at the syllabus. Today, we're just going to snack and get to know each other, and I'd also like to give you each one of these notebooks. These notebooks will be a food journal; keep track of everything you eat every day, and, every so often, we'll have a little look and see what we can do to make easy little healthier changes to your usual diet."

"So, anyway, introductions. If you don't mind, I'd like to know your name, a little about yourself, whatever you'd like to share, and then what some of your favourite foods are. It'll help if I know what you like, so I can work with that! So go on, go ahead. But don't talk with your mouth full."

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"Eva Rodriguez from Boston, so as far as hometown foods, I like my baked beans, my chowder," She piled the accent on that word because she couldn't resist it. "...cream pie, cranberry bread, and the roast beef sandwiches. God, the roast beef sandwiches are up there."

She wasn't even mentioning all the Dominican food she loved.

"Food that sticks to your ribs a bit, then, eh?" asked Daisy who, after a slight look-over, thought that not much of it actually did stick to Eva's ribs at all.

Not that Daisy herself had any room to talk, but her diet was consistent with her tiny size.

"Mmhmm. And now that you've mentioned it, BBQ ribs are high up there too. I also eat white rice on a daily basis, but that's just my dad doesn't know how to make anything else besides rice, beans, and hot dogs." Eva explained.

Oh, hot dogs.

"Well," Daisy smiled, "maybe we'll have something nice and easy in this class that you could pass along to him. Nice thing about cooking is that it's something that can be shared."

"That's how I learned. Before she died, my mother would take me in the kitchen, have me help. It made the recipes and just the action of moving around the kitchen much easier to soak up." Eva said, instantly thinking about her mother and grandmother.

Now, Eva was good in the kitchen when it came to family recipes, but her mother and grandmother were geniuses.

How could Daisy not smile a little for something like that?

"Well, now I'll just have to expect something good from you at the end of the session, Eva, when everyone brings in their own."

"Hopefully, I'll leave my habit of adding an outrageous amount of either salt or sugar by then. That's one family thing I'm a little scared might kill me if I can't stop myself." Eva admitted, partly joking and partly serious.

Well, sodium was a bitch. Daisy gave a faint smile. "I'll have to keep in mind to try and point you toward some really simple, healthier ways to flavour things, then, in the course of the workshop, Eva."

"Alright. Sounds good to me." She agreed; even though, she was a bit skeptical about it.

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