FOOD FOR THOUGHT  IV

Each of the answers to the clues below will contain some kind of food or food-related item.

1. Someone or something cherished
2. One in charge
3. The best of the best
4. Briefly
5. View with skepticism
6. We are doomed.
7. Honest, moral, hard-working people

Answers:

1. Apple of your eye
2. Big cheese
3. Cream of the crop
4. In a nutshell
5. Take with a grain of salt
6. We're toast.
7. Salt of the earth