This week I looked at vegan and vegetarian diets including the benefits and stuff that they need to watch in order to be healthy. Because they are missing out on a lot of nutrients from meat and dairy they need to be very aware they are getting all their nutrients. I also worked on my unit 3 project and am hoping to be able to hand it in early next week.

I would like to do another recipe modification this week and am thinking of doing a vegetarian or vegan recipe.

Raisin Scones

This weekend I did a recipe modification for raisin scones.
Original Recipe:
2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/4 cup raisins
1 egg
3/4 cup milk

I changed it by making half the flour whole wheat, cutting the butter in half and substiting in vanilla yogurt. By doing this I increased the fiber ( whole wheat flour), decreasing the calories and saturated fat (less butter) and increasing the calcium content (yogurt). They came out pretty good but were deffintally better fresh from the oven then they were cold.

My Recipe
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup sugar
4 tsps baking powder
1/4 cup unsalted butter
~ 3 tbsp vanilla yogurt
1/4 cup raisins
1 egg
3/4 cup milk

This week I continued to look at different types of superfoods and picking the ones that I am going to include in the Unit 3 project. I also looked at the different things that make these foods super foods (antioxidents, fiber, etc.) and the benefits of these. I also looked into vegan/ vegetarian diets and the concerns with these types of diets ( enough protein/ iron)

This weekend I am hoping to do another recipe modification.

Loving this sun! (vitamin D!!!!)

Superfoods

At the beginning of this week I finished off my unit 2 project. It strays a little bit from the rubric that I made because of the information relevance but it is still based on the Canadian Food Guide, which is what the PLOs wanted when I made up the course. I also used MyPyramid (basically the american food guide) to help me with it.

I've now started Unit 3 which looks at some different components of nutrition (antioxidents, etc) as well as different ways of eating (vegetarian/ vegan diets). It also looks at what are called "superfoods", and there are a lot of different opinions on which foods are true superfoods. It seems that almost every food was considered a super food at one point! I think I will end up just looking at the ones that come up the most and be very aware of what websites and resources I am using to get the info.

Ahead of Schedule!

This week I worked on completing my Unit 2 project. I am pretty much finished it now but am waiting to hand it in because I want to print it off at home with a coloured printer. This unit revolved around looking at Canadas food guide and eating to meet its recommended requirements. I feel that this is a good foundationto base a healthy diet on but it would be incredibly hard to meet every single requirement every single day.

Handing this in on Monday will put me almost a week ahead of schedule in my course. :)