Nutrition & Food Prep

High School Family & Consumer Science Course

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Week 1: April 6-10

Learning Goal:

I can practice my kitchen safety and sanitation skills and earn an industry standard ServeSafe certificate that is valid for 3 years.

Estimated Time for The Week: 2 hours

Learn & Practice:

  • Create an account with ServSafe. Write down your User ID and Password for future use.
  • Under “ServSafe Food Handler Online Course and Assessment BUNDLE”, select “ADD TO PROFILE”.
  • Once you have added the course to your profile, click on “ServSafe Food Handler” at the top left of your screen.
  • Then click on “Take Online Course” at the top left. You will see the course under “My Online Courses”.
  • Choose “Launch” to start the course.
    • This is a 2 hour interactive training that you are not able to skip through.
    • You can stop the tutorial at any time and then log back in to continue.
    • At the end of the training, there is a 45 question test. You will not be able to start and stop until the test is finished.
    • Once you have completed the test with a passing score, send a screenshot of your score to your Culinary teacher so that we can celebrate your success.

Notes

  • I encourage all current and future culinary students to take advantage of this amazing opportunity!!
  • This training is highly regarded in the culinary industry. Many restaurants require you to take this training and pay for it yourself.
  • The cost is usually $15.00, but it is available for a limited time for FREE. This offer expires on April 30th.
  • If you have trouble logging in, go back after an hour or so and try again. The system may be running slow due to the number of people taking advantage of this opportunity.

Week 2: April 13-17

Learning Goal:

Exploring different diets: Vegetarianism and Veganism

  • Student: Will gain an understanding of how to transition over to these lifestyles. This is something you can do with family members or use Social Media and “challenge” your friends to do it with you.

Estimated Time for The Week: 60 minutes. More if you actually cook.

Learn & Practice:

  • Watch: Funny Hunter's Video A Hunter's Guide to His Vegetarian Daughter and Vegan Son
  • Website: Vegan Recipes Offers great resources and plans of actions to explore this new way of eating. It includes numerous links and recipes.
  • Create: Here is an example of a 31-day Vegan meal plan try to plan out your own with the help of your family.
  • Share: Share some pictures of the Vegan/Vegetarian recipes you created
  • Reflect: After trying this for a few days, what are your thoughts? Was it hard? Did you feel any different? Are you likely to continue?

Week 3: April 20-24

Nutrition and Wellness

Learning Goal: Students will be able to create a personal account on MyFitnessPal.com. They will use their account to enter daily food intake and physical activity.

Estimated time: 3 days ( 10 minutes each day)

Learn & Practice:

  • Watch: Tracking your food | The Beginner Series
  • Website: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/ or you can download the app on your Smartphone.
  • Practice: After watching the video and downloading the app start adding to your food diary and familiar with the tools in your app to better help you evaluate your diet.
  • Reflect and Analyze: What are factors that influence food choices?:
    • Time
    • Cost/availability
    • Culture
    • Location
    • Peers
    • Media
    • Family
    • Body image
  • Create: Develop a personal eating plan and physical activity schedule for weight management (e.g., caloric intake versus caloric expenditure).
  • Share: Upload pictures of your success. Ask friends to join you on the Myfitness app Social networking to encourage each other.

Week 4: April 27 - May 1

Nutrition and Wellness, Week #4

Learning Goal: Students will understand the important benefits of family meal time. They will use the information to plan and prepare a meal for their own family.

Estimated time: 1 day

Learn & Practice:

  • Read: The Importance of Family Mealtime
  • Watch: “My Plate, My Wins-what’s your healthy eating style?”
  • Website: https://www.choosemyplate.gov/
  • Practice: After watching the video and going to the website to learn about creating a healthy menu, consider different lunch or dinner ideas for your family. What foods do you enjoy? Think about foods your family enjoys.
  • Reflect and Analyze: Planning healthy meals ahead of time can help you stick to a healthy eating style. If you’re new to meal planning, start small and work up to more. Here are some great tips:
    • Map out your Meal -What would your family enjoy? Ask them!
    • Find Balance - Protein, vegetables, fruits, grains, and dairy


  • Create: Decide what you will prepare and find a recipe. Check with other family members or you can go to www.allrecipes.com
  1. Make a grocery list of items you need
  2. Determine how long it will take to prepare your meal. When should you start preparation?
  3. Read your recipe and get started!


Share: Take a picture of you and your family at your dinner. Share with your teacher and friends.

Week 5: May 4-8

Nutrition and Wellness, Week 5

Learning Goal: Students will analyze types of home kitchens and determine the type of kitchen in their own home.

Estimated time: 30 minutes

Learn & Practice:


  • Practice: After reading the PPT, take a picture of your own kitchen at home on your phone. Edit the photo to identify the 3 Work Centers.


  • Reflect and Analyze: Locate the ‘work triangle’ in your kitchen. Lastly identify the type of kitchen you have.


  • Share: Upload pictures of your success and share with your teacher. Show your parent what you learned. Do they know the types of kitchens?

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