PART 1:

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences: 

How has your knowledge changed regarding your knowledge and understanding regarding nutrition, and the relationship that it has with our health?

Describe what it was like to track your meals in a food log. What are some benefits to keeping a food log? What were some challenges that you faced?

What are some things that you learned about your personal diet/nutritional habits? What was the most interesting, shocking, or interesting thing that you found out about your nutrition via the food analysis?

Are there any changes that you are going to implement as a result of these assignments? Why or why not?

Optional- Is there anything else that you would like to share with me regarding these assignments?

PART 2:

Recipe Makeover

Task 1- Choose a Recipe

Choose a recipe, either a personal favorite or one that looks interesting, that you would like to modify. Choose one or more of the following modifications that you would like to make to the recipe:

Reduce calories

Replace saturated fat with monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fat

Reduce fat

Increase fiber

Replace simple carbohydrate with complex carbohydrate

Replace animal protein with plant protein

Increase protein

Task 2- Modify and Share
Provide the following:

A link to the recipe or copy/paste the recipe.

• Tell us what kind of modification you are making.
• Explain how you would modify the recipe. 
• Provide us with a comparison of the nutrition information from the original recipe versus the modified recipe. 
• You only have to share the component that you are changing. For instance, if you are trying to decrease the total fat you would provide the total fat from the original recipe and the estimated total fat for the modified one.