Instructions:
Read the following scenario, reflect using your learning so far in the course, and answer the questions paying specific attention to how many points each question is worth. Your answers can be written in paragraph form or in a series of sentences, and you can use the charts provided for the final question. Once your answers are complete, you can upload them as a file in the assessment folder where they will be graded by your professor. Remember the aim of this assignment is to illustrate your knowledge of material from module 1-5.
Case Study:
Kiana is a trained chef. She has recently been hired as the lead culinary director of a community food centre in Scarborough, where she will oversee the foodservice operation for a daycare centre, a daily hot meal service, as well as an afterschool meal program for the community. She has been tasked with creating a weekly menu of lunch and dinner items that are nutritionally rich and can help address the health of the community through food.
Currently, the menu consists of canned soup with grilled cheese for lunch served with a chocolate chip cookie and chocolate milk, and mashed potatoes with a pork chop and broccoli for dinner served with a fruit cup and apple juice.
Here is a breakdown:
Lunch Side | Lunch Main | Lunch Snack | Dinner Side | Dinner Main | Dinner Snack |
Canned Cream of Mushroom Soup Purchased, opened, heated and served. |
Grilled Cheese -Sliced White Bread -Kraft Singles Cheese -Margarine -Served with Ketchup |
– Boxed Oreo Cookies or Chocolate Chip -Carton of Chocolate Milk |
Mashed Potatoes: – Boxed Mashed potato mix – Milk – Butter |
Pork Chop: – Porkchop – Garlic – Shake n Bake – Butter |
Packaged Fruit Cup Or Chocolate/Vanilla Pudding – apple juice |
Questions:
- List 5 Nutritional problems with the lunch program with a brief explanation of the ingredient or component as well as the nature of the nutritional problem. (10 points)
Canned Cream of Mushroom Soup Purchased, opened, heated and served. |
Grilled Cheese -Sliced White Bread -Kraft Singles Cheese -Margarine -Served with Ketchup |
– Boxed Oreo Cookies or Chocolate Chip -Carton of Chocolate Milk |
Problems: |
- List 5 Nutritional problems with the dinner program with a brief explanation of the ingredient or component as well as the nature of the nutritional problem. You may refer to some of the same problems as your previous answer, as long as you connect it to a new ingredient or component in the dinner menu. (10 points)
Mashed Potatoes: – Boxed Mashed potato mix – Milk – Butter |
Pork Chop: – Porkchop – Garlic – Shake n Bake – Butter |
Packaged Fruit Cup Or Chocolate/Vanilla Pudding – apple juice |
Problems: |
- Create a replacement menu using some or all of the information you have listed above. Explain your Choices. (30 points)
LUNCH PROGRAM | Lunch Side | Lunch Main | Lunch Snack |
Menu Item | |||
Nutritional Rationale |
DINNER PROGRAM | Dinner Side | Dinner Main | Dinner Snack |
Menu Item | |||
Nutritional Rationale |