Pizza, pancakes, noodles, pretzels and dumplings: this food word search hides the dishes of breakfast, lunch and dinner in a new grid every time. It is a tasty puzzle for a lunch break, and a handy activity for a lesson about food and healthy eating.

Three levels

Easy: 8 words in a 10 × 10 grid, only across and down.
Medium: 10 words in a 12 × 12 grid, diagonals included.
Hard: 12 words in a 14 × 14 grid, in every direction, backwards too.

Print it

Press Print for a clean page with the grid, the word list and a line for a name, and Answer key for the solution on its own page. Teachers use it for vocabulary about food, parents as a quiet game before dinner.

How to play

Pick a word from the list, find its first letter and drag to the last one; on a phone you can tap the first and last letters. Found words are crossed off, and the timer runs until the whole list is done.

Hungry for more? Try the Thanksgiving Word Search, the classic Word Search with 21 themes, or all word search games.