1.   Brenda spent all day preparing the meal.

2.   By the time Eline came home at dinner time, Nina had prepared a meal of bread and cheese.

3.   Chris, for example, wants to be a chef and works for the dining services preparing meals.

4.   Cleaning the house and preparing meals were assigned a value.

5.   Emily thinks nothing of preparing a meal for twenty people.

6.   Michael plans to prepare complete meals before your very eyes.

7.   Recipes provided on the packages of certain staples sometimes tempt a semiliterate person to prepare a meal her children have not tasted.

8.   She prepared the meals and pumped the water and drew t e baths and swept the rugs and made the beds.

9.   The arrival of convenience foods took much of the hard work out of preparing meals.