Meal Assessment
The purpose of this project is to get students to look deeper into the implications of their personal food choices by evaluating a dinner that they consume (it could be a lunch or a breakfast, but dinners tend to have more components which is why I have chosen to suggest that you analyze a dinner). What we are asking you to do is to -‐ in as much (real) detail as you can manage – analyze the components of the meal and to ask questions about where the food items came from, where they may have been processed, and how they may have gotten to wherever it was that it was purchased. You can make this as complicated or as simple as you want, but the grading will be done on the following, and you must use up at least 2 pages (double spaced, times new roman font, 12 point size font; or 1000 words if you use charts and bullet points):
• Analyze at least 5 ingredients •
Discuss any certifications or descriptions that may have been involved
(organic, gluten free, etc)
• Succinct but detailed (and hopefully correct) definitions of any terms
you choose to use (ie “natural”, “healthy”, “local”, etc)
• Choose one of the items and look more indepth (easiest to do with the
protein or main item of the meal – for example if you are having chicken, look at the different classifications of chicken; or if you are having fish, discuss the differences (both good and bad) between farm raised and wild, etc.)
