Reading a recipe and shopping list
Wie viel brauchen wir für vier Personen?
Connect quantities to ingredients, adjust a simple recipe and buy only what is missing.
Read the number of portions before using an ingredient list. Für zwei Personen gives the recipe size, not the number of ingredients. To prepare twice as many equal portions, double each stated amount. Keep units attached: zweihundert Gramm is not two hundred packets. Some ingredients are counted, such as zwei Tomaten; others use a quantity phrase, such as ein Liter Milch. How much is already at home changes the shopping list: Wir brauchen insgesamt vier Eier, aber zwei haben wir schon. A recipe may offer a substitution, but do not invent one that the text does not mention. These tasks practise reading and planning, not professional cooking or dietary advice.
Das Rezept ist für zwei Personen.
The recipe is for two people.
Für vier Personen brauchen wir die doppelte Menge.
For four people we need twice the amount.
Wir brauchen insgesamt vier Eier.
We need four eggs in total.
Zwei Eier haben wir schon zu Hause.
We already have two eggs at home.
Auf der Liste stehen fünfhundert Gramm Kartoffeln.
The list says five hundred grams of potatoes.
Kannst du die fehlenden Zutaten kaufen?
Can you buy the missing ingredients?
Read the number of portions before using an ingredient list. Für zwei Personen gives the recipe size, not the number of ingredients. To prepare twice as many equal portions, double each stated amount. Keep units attached: zweihundert Gramm is not two hundred packets. Some ingredients are counted, such as zwei Tomaten; others use a quantity phrase, such as ein Liter Milch. How much is already at home changes the shopping list: Wir brauchen insgesamt vier Eier, aber zwei haben wir schon. A recipe may offer a substitution, but do not invent one that the text does not mention. These tasks practise reading and planning, not professional cooking or dietary advice.
Connect quantities to ingredients, adjust a simple recipe and buy only what is missing.
Do not buy the full total again when part is already at home. Doubling portions means doubling quantities, not changing grams into packets.
Portions → quantity per ingredient → amount already available → amount still needed. Gramm, Liter and Stück are different units.
Write a simple ingredient list for two people, then adapt it for four. Mark two ingredients already at home and make the remaining shopping list.