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Chapter 5

1.- I need three eggs and a kilogram of whipped cream for this dessert.
   - But mother, all that cream isn't good for us! And you know that I am trying to lose weight. Why don't you help me?
   - I'm sorry, dear. You're right. I'll serve an ice cream cake.

2. - What shall we offer our guests for the second course? Baked turkey? Fried pork? Fresh game?
   - Carlo, everyone is on a diet this month. Better choose other food. Maybe some lean, boiled fish and a side of raw vegetables.
   - But then it is all tasteless!

3. - This meat seems too fatty for me. I don't feel like cutting away all the fat. There will be nothing left.
   - Dad, no meat is lean enough for you! If the dish is spicy and flavourfull, I promise you, if you taste it, you'll like it.
   - No, my tastes (gusti) don't work like that...

4. We like to spend time with all our friends at Christmas. We consider each one important, and no one boring. There are several friends that are coming to visit us and there are a few who are staying at our house. I like to have lots of people around me during the holidays.

5. For snack time we had some cheese and a bit of fresh fruit. Mrs. Giannini wanted to bake a cake, but it seemed to us that there was already too much food. Everyone is always complaining about eating too much. I told her, "We can have a good time with little food."



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