Here are some of the times that food entered into the plot of "The Brady Bunch."

#1  "The Honeymoon"
Mike puts too much sugar in his coffee.  The wedding cake falls on Mike's face.

#8  "The Grass is Always Greener"
Mike flops at giving the girls cooking lessons

#12 "A Camping We Will Go"
The girls bring "sissy food" like fried chicken to the family camping trip.

#20  "Brace Yourself"
Marcia refuses her favorite meal, spaghetti, after she gets braces.

#21.  "The Big Sprain"
Jan offers Alice one of her famous peanut butter and pickle sandwiches.

#27  "The Babysitters"
Mike and Carol attempt to go out to dinner.

#29  "The Un-Underground Movie"
The family feasts on a Thanksgiving dinner for Greg's school project film.

#31  "Confessions, Confessions"
The family is eating dinner while the vase that Peter broke starts leaking
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#35.  "Fistful of Reasons"
Peter uses a steak to help his black eye.

#44  "The Liberation of Marcia Brady"
Peter sells cookies door to door as a Sunflower girl.

#46  "The Winner"
Bobby enters an ice cream eating contest.

#51  "The Brady Braves"
Bobby and Cindy sneak hot dogs and baked beans in a flashlight for their friend.

#54  "The Personality Kid"
Peter requests pork chops and apple sauce for dinner.

#62  "Little Big Man"
Bobby and Greg get stuck in Sam's meat locker

#65 "The Big Bet"
Bobby pigs out on three slices of pizza and popcorn while at the drive-in theater with Greg and his date Rachel.  

#66  "Jan's Aunt Jenny"
Jenny prepares a traditional Japanese dinner for the family.

#69  "Sergeant Emma"
Emma serves the family meals Army-style.

#70  "The Fender Benders"
Bobby and Cindy are fighting over who spilled ice cream in the back seat of the car while Carol gets in a car accident.

#74  "The Tiki Caves"
The Hawaii trilogy ends with a luau.

#78  "Career Fever"
Bobby requests that Alice mash up his food like the astronauts.

#79  "Law and Disorder"  
Cindy offers Bobby cheese, since "rats eat cheese."

#80  "Jan the Only Child"
Carol and Alice each make preserves.

#82  "You Can't Win 'Em All"
While Cindy is preparing for her television appearance, she refuses her favorite dinner swiss steak and spaghetti and requests a small salad.

#83  "Goodbye Alice Hello"
Marcia and Greg refuse some "great peaches" from Alice.  Alice gets a job at a greasy spoon where she changes Marcia and Jan's orders to fruit cups.  

#89.  "Greg Gets Grounded"
After Greg mistakenly takes Bobby's and Peter's frogs to the drive-in, Carol exclaims a new food was invented--"Pepperoni Frog Pizza."

#96 "Mail Order Hero"
Concerned over telling all his friends that Joe Namath has dinner with the Bradys whenever he is in town, Bobby turns down his favorite dessert, brownies.

#99    "Never Too Young"
The girls and Bobby are eating pancakes while awaiting a call from Millicent to learn if she has mumps.  

#100  "Peter and the Wolf"
At the drive-in, Peter spills popcorn on his date.  Mike and Carol and Greg, Peter and their dates end up at the same pizza parlor.  

#102  "The Cincinnati Kids"
Bobby and Cindy pig out on a variety of junk food at the amusement park.

#103  "Quarterback Sneak"
Marcia offers Jerry Rogers a glass of lemonade.

#104  "Marcia Gets Creamed"
Marcia, Peter, and Jan work at an ice cream parlor.  Marcia sprays whipped cream on Jeff.  The episode ends with Peter getting a job at a pizza parlor.

#108  "The Driver's Seat"
Mike uses an egg on a pylon to determine who is a better driver--Marcia or Greg.

#109  "Miss Popularity"
Alice makes special fortune cookies for Jan's election campaign.  At the end of the episode, Alice offers a hi-cal or low-cal dessert.

#111  "Two Petes in a Pod"
We learn that Peter is allergic to cherry pie.

#112  "Welcome Aboard"
The episode ends in a pie fight.

#114.  "The Hustler"
Bobby wins 256 packs of gum from Mr. Matthews.

Miscellaneous:

In an early episode Cindy wonders why Carol always makes her peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  Carol answers "because you love them."  Cindy says, "Oh yeah I keep forgetting."

Greg pigs out on a triple-decker sandwich in one episode.  

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