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Elmo's Breakfast Bingo
Using a funny–sometimes wacky–multiple-choice guessing game, Elmo teaches kids about the importance of starting the day with a good breakfast. Packed with facts and fun, this book makes breakfast easy to swallow! Practical tips for parents are also included!
- GenresChildrens
32 pages, Hardcover
First published July 26, 2005
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April 23, 2019
This is such a bogus book. I loved Sesame Street growing up, my sister loved Sesame Street and especially Elmo, so I've had my fair share of fun with the show and characters.
For starters, the reading comprehension level of this book misses the target audience. The format of the book is fun, but would probably be more enjoyable as a short animated video instead. Also, I can't imagine any parent wanting to read this to their child over and over again. I checked it out from the library for fun and I don't even want to read it again, much less out LOUD.
Now the main problem with the book: the nutritional value is absolute garbage. For personal health and medical necessities, my family eats gluten-free. We pay lots of attention to nutrition and eat tons of fruits, veggies, and we do not buy very much processed food to begin with. I'm sorry, but cereal is not inherently better than eating a cookie for breakfast. Both are just alternate end products of a flour mix. You can put milk in cereal, or you can dunk a cookie in a glass of milk and you get about the SAME ingredients into your body. I don't want to hear anyone tell me, "well oatmeal or cereal made from oats is better health wise". Oatmeal raisin cookies exist folks. Dunk it in some milk, you're still getting the SAME thing. Then eat a sandwich for lunch, and spaghetti for dinner, and all you've had all day is heaps and heaps of flour that is processed differently. I love eggs for breakfast, that's not a problem, but in general, this is not a great nutritional resource, nor will it be very much fun for any of the kids I've known.
Try again Sesame Street.
For starters, the reading comprehension level of this book misses the target audience. The format of the book is fun, but would probably be more enjoyable as a short animated video instead. Also, I can't imagine any parent wanting to read this to their child over and over again. I checked it out from the library for fun and I don't even want to read it again, much less out LOUD.
Now the main problem with the book: the nutritional value is absolute garbage. For personal health and medical necessities, my family eats gluten-free. We pay lots of attention to nutrition and eat tons of fruits, veggies, and we do not buy very much processed food to begin with. I'm sorry, but cereal is not inherently better than eating a cookie for breakfast. Both are just alternate end products of a flour mix. You can put milk in cereal, or you can dunk a cookie in a glass of milk and you get about the SAME ingredients into your body. I don't want to hear anyone tell me, "well oatmeal or cereal made from oats is better health wise". Oatmeal raisin cookies exist folks. Dunk it in some milk, you're still getting the SAME thing. Then eat a sandwich for lunch, and spaghetti for dinner, and all you've had all day is heaps and heaps of flour that is processed differently. I love eggs for breakfast, that's not a problem, but in general, this is not a great nutritional resource, nor will it be very much fun for any of the kids I've known.
Try again Sesame Street.
April 24, 2019
I like and hate that this book has Elmo in it. I like that it has Elmo in it, because I like Elmo. He is a cute, furry red monster who is always so positive. I hate that it is Elmo, because the nutritional advice is sorely lacking and Elmo is supposed to be a role model.
It isn't entirely Elmo's fault though. Most 'nutritional advice' handed out throughout the years to people in the United States has not only been lacking nutrition, it has been down right dangerous. Government healthy eating implementation has not been any better. Public schools serve kids junk on a daily basis. They get pizza, processed flour, sugared fruit packaged things called uncrustables, packaged sugary cereal, toast, processed shell tacos with mystery meat, hamburgers, fish sticks that are more flour than fish, hot dogs, spaghetti, chicken fingers, chicken fried steak, and sandwiches. Once a year they are served a thanksgiving meal that consists of sliced heated up turkey that was probably sent to the cafeteria in a box. So, what do kids learn to eat: junk--that is hardly food or nutritious. It is anti-nutrition. It leads to obesity and disease.
After growing up being fed all this junk, it should not come as a surprise that most adults prefer this kind of junk over real food. It is what they know, because it is what they LEARNED. They trusted the schools and the schools had and continue to have it all wrong. This junk is not only served in school, it is found in most restaurants both fast and sit down. Sadly, it is also found in many hospitals as well, which is the most puzzling and counterproductive thing a sick person can be served: nutritionally defunct non-food.
Now that the old food pyramid has been altered, one would hope that critters like Elmo would re-evaluate his nutritional advice. How about boiled eggs? Fried eggs? Scrambled REAL eggs? How about a whole banana, an orange, or strawberries? How about a yellow apple, green apple, pink apple in addition to the standard red apple? How about red, black or green grapes? How about nuts and nut-butters like walnuts, pecans, cashews, hazel nuts, brazil nuts, peanuts, or pistachios? How about sunflower seeds, brown rice, quinoa and wild rice?
How about cucumbers, cukes, real carrots, fresh green beans, brussels sprouts, red potatoes, white potatoes, baking potatoes, yams, sweet potatoes, melons, red plums, black plums, peaches, apricots, watermelons, tangerines, grapefruit, plantain bananas, red pears, bosc pears, bartlett pears, d-anjou pears, red cabbage, green cabbage, napa cabbage, spaghetti squash, yellow squash, zucchini squash, chayote squash, mexican squash, pumpkins, romaine lettuce, spinach, radishes, green leaf lettuce, red leaf lettuce, and celery? These items also help build strong bones and bodies.
How about fresh breadless chicken, fresh breadless meat and fresh or frozen breadless fish? How about fresh beans or canned beans for breakfast? Garbanzos, black beans, pinto beans, navy beans anyone? How about pulses like orange lentils, green lentils or black lentils? Again, these can be canned or if prepared in advance fresh. How about yogurt, cheese cubes, or cottage cheese? How about whole fruit shakes and drinks? Homemade ice cream with fresh fruits anyone? Healthier cookies with more fruit and nuts and less sugar? Fresh popped popcorn with real whole cream butter? Fruit bars with less sugar and more fruit? All these products are out there, you just have be willing to make them and be willing to look for them in grocery and market stores.
If Elmo really wants to teach children to be healthy eaters, then Elmo needs to take his job really serious and not just go through the status quo. It isn't working!! Children become adults who tend to eat what they learned to eat. And, yes, I do realize that kids can be picky eaters, but given the choice of not eating or eating the nutritional food you provide, children will chose to eat. Then as they get older, when given the opportunity to eat junk---they will eat it, but they will quickly realize that it isn't the best food in the world and their food choice will revert to the healthy stuff.
The occasional junk food isn't necessarily a bad thing, unfortunately for many people it is a way of life. Children need to not be indoctrinated into that way of life. Ants on a log: Celery with nut butter or cream cheese and raisins or other dried fruits are fun snack that are good for kids, yogurt with fresh fruit is good, too. Cottage cheese and peaches are tasty. Canned beans with fresh grated cheese and tortilla chips are a nice snack, too. Fresh cut green beans with butter and buttery frozen corn cups are wonderful snacks. As are baby carrots and nut butters or sour cream or yogurt. Dry sugar free cereal with nuts, seeds and dried fruit is another easy snack. There really are no excuses.
So please, Elmo, do your homework, teach kids to eat the freshest foods possible. I hope one day people realize that no matter how you make it some foods are the same thing over and over: spaghetti: meat, pasta/flour, tomato, hamburger: meat, bread/flour, tomato, nutritionally defunct iceberg lettuce and pickles (vinegar cucumber) and ketchup (saucy sugary tomato), pizza: meat, crust/flour, sauce (tomato), a sprinkling of veggies or none at all, chicken fingers/chicken fried steak is just some kind of meat breaded with flour and eaten with gravy which is just saucy flour. Humans weren't made to survive on processed meat, flour and vegetables with the smallest amount of vitamins and minerals!!
Elmo, we may not have known better in the past, but now we do. Teach children to eat better so they can grow up healthier. Most kids will only remember bits and parts of this book, so it isn't all bad--Rosita eats pretty well--Cookie could have eaten a "healthier cookie" (a small cookie with less sugar, more grains and nuts and fruit maybe), but the choice was made to demonize his cookie instead--which doesn't work in the long run.
The last pages of the book were a note to parents about the importance of their children's food and health is. I agree with that conclusion 100%. If children eat better little brains will be healthier, which can only make learning, growing up, and behaving easier. If children and adults eat healthy foods then they it is more likely that they will be able to remember to eat their breakfast. (An adult choosing to only have coffee is not a healthy breakfast. It sends the wrong message of: Do as I say, not as I do=hypocrite.)
It is a parents most important job to make sure their children eats foods that contain the non-synthetic vitamins and minerals they need. It is a parents most important job to show their kids to eat healthy by eating healthy themselves. Most people who are members of Goodreads should know how to become healthier eaters: visit the library or a bookstore or websites on the Internet. Here's to happy, fun, and healthy eating!
It isn't entirely Elmo's fault though. Most 'nutritional advice' handed out throughout the years to people in the United States has not only been lacking nutrition, it has been down right dangerous. Government healthy eating implementation has not been any better. Public schools serve kids junk on a daily basis. They get pizza, processed flour, sugared fruit packaged things called uncrustables, packaged sugary cereal, toast, processed shell tacos with mystery meat, hamburgers, fish sticks that are more flour than fish, hot dogs, spaghetti, chicken fingers, chicken fried steak, and sandwiches. Once a year they are served a thanksgiving meal that consists of sliced heated up turkey that was probably sent to the cafeteria in a box. So, what do kids learn to eat: junk--that is hardly food or nutritious. It is anti-nutrition. It leads to obesity and disease.
After growing up being fed all this junk, it should not come as a surprise that most adults prefer this kind of junk over real food. It is what they know, because it is what they LEARNED. They trusted the schools and the schools had and continue to have it all wrong. This junk is not only served in school, it is found in most restaurants both fast and sit down. Sadly, it is also found in many hospitals as well, which is the most puzzling and counterproductive thing a sick person can be served: nutritionally defunct non-food.
Now that the old food pyramid has been altered, one would hope that critters like Elmo would re-evaluate his nutritional advice. How about boiled eggs? Fried eggs? Scrambled REAL eggs? How about a whole banana, an orange, or strawberries? How about a yellow apple, green apple, pink apple in addition to the standard red apple? How about red, black or green grapes? How about nuts and nut-butters like walnuts, pecans, cashews, hazel nuts, brazil nuts, peanuts, or pistachios? How about sunflower seeds, brown rice, quinoa and wild rice?
How about cucumbers, cukes, real carrots, fresh green beans, brussels sprouts, red potatoes, white potatoes, baking potatoes, yams, sweet potatoes, melons, red plums, black plums, peaches, apricots, watermelons, tangerines, grapefruit, plantain bananas, red pears, bosc pears, bartlett pears, d-anjou pears, red cabbage, green cabbage, napa cabbage, spaghetti squash, yellow squash, zucchini squash, chayote squash, mexican squash, pumpkins, romaine lettuce, spinach, radishes, green leaf lettuce, red leaf lettuce, and celery? These items also help build strong bones and bodies.
How about fresh breadless chicken, fresh breadless meat and fresh or frozen breadless fish? How about fresh beans or canned beans for breakfast? Garbanzos, black beans, pinto beans, navy beans anyone? How about pulses like orange lentils, green lentils or black lentils? Again, these can be canned or if prepared in advance fresh. How about yogurt, cheese cubes, or cottage cheese? How about whole fruit shakes and drinks? Homemade ice cream with fresh fruits anyone? Healthier cookies with more fruit and nuts and less sugar? Fresh popped popcorn with real whole cream butter? Fruit bars with less sugar and more fruit? All these products are out there, you just have be willing to make them and be willing to look for them in grocery and market stores.
If Elmo really wants to teach children to be healthy eaters, then Elmo needs to take his job really serious and not just go through the status quo. It isn't working!! Children become adults who tend to eat what they learned to eat. And, yes, I do realize that kids can be picky eaters, but given the choice of not eating or eating the nutritional food you provide, children will chose to eat. Then as they get older, when given the opportunity to eat junk---they will eat it, but they will quickly realize that it isn't the best food in the world and their food choice will revert to the healthy stuff.
The occasional junk food isn't necessarily a bad thing, unfortunately for many people it is a way of life. Children need to not be indoctrinated into that way of life. Ants on a log: Celery with nut butter or cream cheese and raisins or other dried fruits are fun snack that are good for kids, yogurt with fresh fruit is good, too. Cottage cheese and peaches are tasty. Canned beans with fresh grated cheese and tortilla chips are a nice snack, too. Fresh cut green beans with butter and buttery frozen corn cups are wonderful snacks. As are baby carrots and nut butters or sour cream or yogurt. Dry sugar free cereal with nuts, seeds and dried fruit is another easy snack. There really are no excuses.
So please, Elmo, do your homework, teach kids to eat the freshest foods possible. I hope one day people realize that no matter how you make it some foods are the same thing over and over: spaghetti: meat, pasta/flour, tomato, hamburger: meat, bread/flour, tomato, nutritionally defunct iceberg lettuce and pickles (vinegar cucumber) and ketchup (saucy sugary tomato), pizza: meat, crust/flour, sauce (tomato), a sprinkling of veggies or none at all, chicken fingers/chicken fried steak is just some kind of meat breaded with flour and eaten with gravy which is just saucy flour. Humans weren't made to survive on processed meat, flour and vegetables with the smallest amount of vitamins and minerals!!
Elmo, we may not have known better in the past, but now we do. Teach children to eat better so they can grow up healthier. Most kids will only remember bits and parts of this book, so it isn't all bad--Rosita eats pretty well--Cookie could have eaten a "healthier cookie" (a small cookie with less sugar, more grains and nuts and fruit maybe), but the choice was made to demonize his cookie instead--which doesn't work in the long run.
The last pages of the book were a note to parents about the importance of their children's food and health is. I agree with that conclusion 100%. If children eat better little brains will be healthier, which can only make learning, growing up, and behaving easier. If children and adults eat healthy foods then they it is more likely that they will be able to remember to eat their breakfast. (An adult choosing to only have coffee is not a healthy breakfast. It sends the wrong message of: Do as I say, not as I do=hypocrite.)
It is a parents most important job to make sure their children eats foods that contain the non-synthetic vitamins and minerals they need. It is a parents most important job to show their kids to eat healthy by eating healthy themselves. Most people who are members of Goodreads should know how to become healthier eaters: visit the library or a bookstore or websites on the Internet. Here's to happy, fun, and healthy eating!
September 30, 2016
My 1 year old LOVES Elmo but this book is way above her comprehension so I keep it hidden cause I'm not about to read this over and over...
My 4 year old out grew Elmo a long time ago but still read it with me and answered all the questions.
Not necessarily a BAD book but Elmo is a character for a more basic reader who likes simple and repetitive. For older kids, the story was good but needed older characters.
My 4 year old out grew Elmo a long time ago but still read it with me and answered all the questions.
Not necessarily a BAD book but Elmo is a character for a more basic reader who likes simple and repetitive. For older kids, the story was good but needed older characters.
December 28, 2012
Abigail Tabby undoubtedly didn't have to read this book every night at bedtime for 3+ weeks in a row. Fun the first time, not the 50th!
December 31, 2014
Didactic.
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