here is a chart of the seven groups the foods that are most important for you to eat they are called body building or foundation that house committee at river school she is using the charts and some food  to plan a helpful then or and later when sally gets home she will help her mother plan the real dinner mrs brown is a good planner she's a foundation food her family must eat to be healthy and happy she knows the right foods for good bones and teeth strong muscles bright eyes and rosy cheeks sally's father is a good planner to me as an architect he plans buildings and he has told sally and her brother jan that building a strong healthy body is like building a strong beautiful building a foundation is very important if the foundation is weak the whole building will be weak concrete must have just the right amount of sand gravel and cement so it will be strong then workers must build a strong frame on the foundation before finishers can make the building complete and beautiful so a great many people work together to make the architect plans come t does not work alone either when she plans meals many people work to provide the foundation food her family needs farmers must raise the vegetables fruits and grains farmers and ranchers must raise animals so there will be meat and all of these foods must be taken to market by train by boat and by truck before mrs brown can buy the foundation food farmer family and now most important of all each one in the family must do his part he must eat the food prepared for him and he must eat it the right way that way and jim eats lovely and day to their food fairly and they eat all of their food sally m g m are good members of the clean white club yes mr brown is a member too he's president of the clean pipe comes at the browns house mrs brown learned how to plan meals from reading and from television and the radio there is a great deal to learn that the seven groups of foods are the important ones for you to learn and to remember these are the foundation food that don't together to build strong bodies remember to eat some food each group every day in the first group their leafy green and yellow vegetables group to have tomatoes rock passage and separates roots like oranges and lemons group three has potatoes and other vegetables and fruits not in group one or two like beets corn peaches and banana milk cheese and ice cream are in group four they help to build the good bones and teeth group five foods are builders of bone and muscle meat poultry fish eggs dried peas and beans group sex has bread flour and cereal and group seven has butter and fortified margarine these are especially good for your eyes remember these foundation foods help your mother plan so you can eat some food from each group every day when you eat it is important to your body if you think food all twenty four hours of a day about twelve hours of daytime and about travel hours of nighttime your food does the best work when you eat at regular times when you eat breakfast lunch and dinner at regular times your food gives strength during the day and helps you get a good rest at night that i and jim eat their breakfast at about seven o'clock it's a good breakfast a good foundation food today they're having milk cereal poached eggs and sliced oranges they're starting the day right they will be ready for a morning of work lunch and i kept a teria jim is out for track the coach has told him that the right foods are very important for athlete he gets home at three o'clock dinner isn't until six and sally is hungry but no need to worry sally always gets milk and fruit after school a perfect snack jumpstart so much later and you can be sure that he's hungry yes he certainly would like a candy bar but he knows that sweets are pleasure foods for special times and besides it's too close to  time even for a snack now g m u don't have much longer to wait and dinner is worth waiting for meat and vegetables salad bread and butter milk and fruit cobbler all good foundation foods and now there are many hours of night time before it's breakfast time again sally bedtime is seven thirty p m spend time is nine thirty before a school day high school people don't need quite so much sleep but both sound i am jim have many hours to sleep before breakfast and remember your body isn't just like an automobile when a car is put away for the night nothing is left moving when the engine is turned off it stops using gasoline but you are alive when you sleep your body is still using food to keep you warm to keep you breathing your engine keeps on running even when you are asleep eggs dry p s and beings bread flour and cereals butter and fortified margarine remember these foundations remember to eat some food from each group every day not them help you to be healthy and happy