Problem
There is a imaginary family that need a meal plan that works with all of their activities and gives everyone a chance to cook something.
Solution
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Parent A cooks 1/2 meatball recipe Teen 2 cooks rice | Teen 1 cooks beef and spinach lasagna | Teen 2 cooks black bean tacos | Parent B cooks ginger glazed salmon and rice | Parent A heats up leftover lasagna |
Meatball recipe:
1 pound ground beef- 1 pound ground pork-½ cup Italian breadcrumbs- ⅓ cup milk- ¼ cup onion- ½ teaspoon garlic powder- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning- 1 egg- ¼ cup parsley- ¼ cup parmesan-salt and pepper
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- In a medium bowl, mix all ingredients until just combined.
- Shape mixture into 48 meatballs, approximately 1 ½ tablespoons each.
- Bake 18-20 minutes or until cooked through.
Justification
On Monday we cut the meatball recipe in half because we thought that 12 servings of meatballs was too many to eat. We added the rice because meatballs by itself is quite a boring dinner. We did not cut the lasagna recipe because if they eat half of the lasagna on Tuesday they can eat the other half on Friday when Teen 1 has dinner at work. The rest of the week none of the recipes are cut.
I think that our plan will work because it fits in with all of the families activities and it is fair (no one works more than someone else.)
References
https://www.spendwithpennies.com/easy-meatball-recipe/#wprm-recipe-container-140704
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017700-meatballs-with-any-meat
Collaboration reflection
We all collaborated in the planning of recipes. Everyone did their fair share with choosing the recipes. We talked a lot and we all contributed to the word document, where all of the information and notes were. We were all familiar to using edublog because we had previously done the “About Me” assignment. All the information we had was put into a word document that I used to complete this post. One person in our group was the one who typed everything that we discussed into a word document, one person helped double check our information, and I made the chart and chose the meatball recipe.