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    The document discusses menu planning and meal service, explaining that menu planning involves designing balanced diets that meet nutritional needs and considering factors like budget, seasonality, and variety. It also outlines the importance of menu planning for health, savings, and meeting individual family member needs, and notes that meal service involves the orderly presentation of food and setting a properly laid table to create a welcoming atmosphere and promote enjoyment of meals.

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    The document discusses menu planning and meal service, explaining that menu planning involves designing balanced diets that meet nutritional needs and considering factors like budget, seasonality, and variety. It also outlines the importance of menu planning for health, savings, and meeting individual family member needs, and notes that meal service involves the orderly presentation of food and setting a properly laid table to create a welcoming atmosphere and promote enjoyment of meals.

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    CBIS ONLINE TEACHING

    SUBJECT: CATERING CRAFT PRACTICE


    CLASS: YR. 12
    TOPIC
    INTRODUCTION OF MEAL PLANNING

    CBIS ONLINE TEACHING CCP YR. 12 MEAL PLANNING


    CONTENT
    Menu/meal planning is the process of designing adequate diets in which all the essential nutrients are
    presents in the right proportion for special groups of people. A well- planned meal should meet the
    nutritional needs of a given individual and thus promote health. An ill-planned meal, on the other hand,
    can retard good health.
    What the meal planner produces is referred to as a menu. Thus, there are breakfast, lunch, and
    supper/dinner menu.
    A mixed diet is the meal that contains more than one of the food nutrients.
    Adequate diet (balanced diet) is a meal that contains all the six classes of foods in their right/correct
    proportion.
    Factors to consider when planning
    meal
     The meal must contain all the necessary food nutrients. Each of the five basic food
    nutrients must be represented.
     The nutritional needs of the difference groups of the people in the family must be
    provided for in the plan. E. g. toddlers, aged, etc.
     Avoid monotony by varying the foods, for instance, meat can be alternated with
    fish.
     Make use of foods in season. They are normally cheaper and could be of good
    quality.
     Consider the money budgeted for food for the family. This will determine the type
    of foods which it can afford.
    CONTENT CONTD
     Plan meals several days ahead of time so as to save money and time.
     Buy good quality foods, simple locally available foods are far more nutritious than
    the sophisticated, imported, and expensive ones, which may have expired.
     Cook food by the most suitable method aim at maximum retention of nutrient and
    good flavor.
     Time your cooking so that meal can be served and eaten hot.
     Serve meals as attractively as possible.
     Where possible, keep a vegetable garden in your compound.
    IMPORTANCE OF MENU PLANNING

     It promotes good health


     To ensure that all the essential nutrients are included in the individual diet
     To save money
     To save time
     To take care of the individual’s need in the family. Etc.
    MEAL SERVICE
     Serving meals involves the orderly and attractive
    presentation of cooked food to the people who are
    going to eat it. There are some accepted
    procedures for serving food, sitting and eating at
    table.
     There procedures often vary from one culture to
    another and from are one family to another,
    descending on family values and standards,
    proper serving of meals normally includes setting
    or laying the table.
    IMPORTANCE OF A WELL LAID
    TABLE
     Conveys a welcoming atmosphere to the persons who are going to eat.
     Stimulates appetite
     Promote the enjoyment of meals
     Aids digestion of food.
     It is therefore important that laying the table should be part of the routine in every
    home. When the family eat together on a properly laid table, family relationships
    can be improved and younger members of the family can be learned good eating
    habits from the older ones. Every family members should play a part in the
    preparations and serving of meals.
    EXAMPLES OF FAMILY MEAL

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