NCERT Solutions for Class 3 The World Around Us Chapter 8 Food We Eat (PDF) – 2027

I drew three dishes and wrote their names.

1. Dal and rice in a bowl
2. Roti on a plate
3. Kheer in a small bowl

Your drawing will be different. That is fine.

I like dal and rice. It is warm and tasty. My grandmother makes it for lunch. I like kheer because it is sweet. We make it on festivals.

We eat and drink to keep our body strong and healthy.

1. Food gives us energy to run, play and work.
2. Food helps us grow and stay well.
3. Our body needs a lot of water. We cannot live without water.

We eat and drink so that our body gets energy, grows and stays healthy.

Sample answer: My grandmother said, “Food gives you strength to play and study.” My father said, “Water keeps the body going. In summer we need more.”

Healthy food makes our body strong and full of energy. We do not fall sick often.

1. Shirin ate only rice and potatoes. She often fell sick.
2. Then she ate many kinds of food cooked at home.
3. She felt energetic, ran faster and won a medal.

Tick (✔) the foods you eat most days. There is no right or wrong tick here.

Many of them, eaten together:

1. Vegetables, salads and fruits
2. Rice and roti (made from grains)
3. Dal
4. Milk, lassi and paneer

A balanced diet is a mix of many kinds of food, not just one or two.

Add the fruits and vegetables sold near your home in each season.

Yes. I have heard about dhokla from Gujarat and appam from Kerala. I have not tasted them yet.

Ask family and friends who have travelled, or who live in another part of the country. Write each food and who told you.

Ask the elders at home what they call each drink. Write the names in your home language.

Sample answer (in Hindi):

I drink water many times a day — when I wake up, at school, after I play and with my meals.

The book says we should drink water frequently.

Our food comes from plants and from animals.

1. From plants: we eat roots, stems, leaves, fruits and seeds — like carrot, potato, spinach, mango and dal.
2. From animals: some people eat milk, curd, ghee, cheese, paneer, honey, eggs and meat.

Many foods grow in fields. Some are:

1. Grains: rice, wheat, ragi, jowar and bajra
2. Pulses: dal
3. Vegetables: potatoes, onion, carrot, radish, spinach
4. Sugarcane

Ask a farmer or an elder which crops grow near your home.

Ask the elders at home how each crop reaches our plate.

Tick (✔) the foods you eat. Leave the others blank.

Sample answer: (one child’s ticks)

The fact to keep: we eat roots, stems, leaves, fruits and seeds of plants.

Salt and water.

1. Salt goes into almost everything we cook.
2. Water is used to cook rice, dal and many other dishes.

Yes, I would share my food.

Sample answer: Yes. My friend would be hungry without lunch. I would give my friend one of my rotis and some sabzi. We would eat together.

No single food gives the body everything it needs.

1. Shirin ate only rice and potatoes. She often fell sick.
2. Then she ate vegetables, fruits, grains, dal and nuts too.
3. She became energetic and healthy.

Each season gives us different food, and our body needs different things in hot and cold weather.

1. Mangoes and melons come in summer. Apples come in winter.
2. In summer we sweat, so we drink more water, buttermilk and nimbu pani.
3. In winter we enjoy warm food, soups and hot drinks.

Healthy food has many kinds of food, cooked at home. It keeps us energetic and well.

1. Variety: vegetables, fruits, grains, dal and nuts.
2. Home-cooked: food cooked at home is always good to eat.
3. Not healthy: eating only one or two things every day, like Shirin’s rice and potatoes.

Food takes a lot of work to reach our plate.

1. Farmers grow it in the fields.
2. Elders at home cook it for us.
3. When we throw food away, all that work is lost.

Some ways to waste less food:

1. Take only as much as you can eat. Ask for more later.
2. Finish the food on your plate.
3. Cover leftover food and eat it at the next meal.
4. Share extra food with friends and neighbours.

Look in your kitchen and ask the elders. Write two lists.

Sample answer: Sweet lassi

You need: 1 cup curd, 2 spoons sugar, half a cup of water.

Steps:

1. Put the curd in a big bowl.
2. Add the sugar and water.
3. Stir or churn it until it is smooth.
4. Pour it into a glass.

Kheer.

1. Milk — an animal based ingredient.
2. Rice — a plant based ingredient. It is a grain.
3. Sugar — a plant based ingredient. It is made from sugarcane.

Other examples: paneer with a vegetable, or curd with rice.

I drew three round thalis. In each one I drew roti, dal, rice and some fruit.

Draw three big circles in your notebook. Leave space above each plate for its name.

Write Morning, Afternoon and Night above the three plates. Draw and name the food you eat at each time.

Sample answer (what we did): Each of us brought one fruit. We washed our hands and the fruits. Our teacher cut them into small pieces. We mixed them in a bowl and shared the chaat.

I would first give our guest water. It is summer, so I would make nimbu pani. Then we would serve the dal, rice and roti cooked at home. A guest should feel welcome.