Meal Planning for a Family

Problem

There is a family who wants to plan out their dinners. They want to have a plan for; who’s cooking, when it will be done, how much of it there will be, and what will be made, for the whole week.

Solution

The cooking times are in yellow, and they are in the same column as the person cooking. (Ex. On Monday Parent A and Teen 2 are cooking from 5:15-5:45)

The Schedule #1

The Schedule #2

MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
Who’s cookingParent A, Teen 2Teen 1Teen 2Parent B Parent A
What’s cooking Meatballs and RiceBeef and Spinach LasagnaBlack Bean TortillasGinger glazed salmon and RiceLeftover Lasagna

Justification

General Justification

Our plan will work because we have looked in detail at making sure that each day will work with everyone’s schedule, everyone had a chance to cook, and everyone who needed help cooking had help.

Monday

Portion : Makes 6 Meatballs Per person (1/2 the recipe) and 3/4 cup rice per person (full recipe)

Parent A gets home at 4:30, and doesn’t have anything after that, they can also cook anything. Teen 2 doesn’t have anything afterschool today and needs help cooking, so they can help Parent A with the rice and maybe the meatballs. It will be ready right after Parent B has come home and gotten settled in.

Tuesday

Portion : Makes 12 servings, they can eat up to 6 servings so that they will still have 1/2 the lasagna for Friday. (full recipe)

Parent A doesn’t get home until 5:30 again and Parent B doesn’t get home until 6 pm today, so we can get Teen 1 who is competent with cooking to cook lasagna. They can start at 3:45 and be done before Parent A gets home. Parent A is going to drive Teen 2 to soccer because they get home first, and they can both eat with lots of time before soccer practice so Teen 2 doesn’t get winded. There will also be leftovers because if each person has 1 serving there will be 8 servings left.

Wednesday

Portion : Makes 4 servings (full recipe)

Parent A gets home at 4:30 today and Parent B gets home at 5:30, and both teens get home at 3:30. No one has anything after this, and Teen 2 can learn from this experience. It only takes 15 minutes and is quite simple, they can also ask for help if needed.

Thursday

Portion : 4, 6 oz. salmon fillets, and 3 cups rice

Parent A is getting home at 6 pm today, Parent B is getting home at 5:30 and Teen 2 (who needs help cooking) is home at 3:30, but Teen 1 (who can cook) is not home until 5:15, and they are going to need to clean up after their school day. So, Parent B can make dinner with the help of Teen 2 to speed up the process.

Friday

Portion : 6 servings of lasagna will be left

Teen 1 is not home until 9:30, so they’re not going to be able to cook. Parent B gets home at 5:30, Parent A at 4:30 and also, Teen 2 cannot/is not comfortable using the oven, and so they can’t heat it up. That leaves it to Parent A who can put it in the oven as soon as Parent B gets home for a quick dinner.

References

Family Calendar

https://cpb-ca-c1.wpmucdn.com/mycentennial.sd43.bc.ca/dist/3/1974/files/2021/09/The-Family-Calendar.pdf

Meatball Recipe

Easy Meatball Recipe – Spend With Pennies

The Family Recipes

Meal Planning Problem Solving Assignment (ADL & Math 9) | Ms. Lam’s Edublog (sd43.bc.ca)

Collaboration Reflection

My group communicated quite well I would say. We had a specific way to plan meals for each day and were pretty much always working on something. We shared the information by putting it on our word document

To plan the meals we used a Word document that we shared with each other. We had already done this before. We also used google to search for a recipe.

As for tasks, we just volunteered ourselves for different tasks and tried give everyone an even workload. We all helped to chose who would cook on what day. Gwen and I chose the recipes and people and Yiseo calculated the times and portions. On the document I put the time it would take and wrote justifications for each day (above).

About Me

My Bio

Hi, I’m Micah, and I go to the same school as all of you, Centennial. Some things that I like doing are, playing soccer and ultimate frisbee, reading, watching movies, and playing video games. Some of my favorite movies are the Lord of the Rings, and the Marvel series. One of my favorite classes is Science. I like it because you can see the things you learn in day-to-day life. I also just find it interesting. I also like PE. I like it because it is a chance to try out different sports and have fun, its also a nice break from the other classes. I usually play centre midfield in soccer because 1. I’m pretty good at it and 2. I enjoy it, you see lots of the ball and there’s lots of action. I think that my friends would call me quiet and thoughtful (I’ve never thought about how my friends think of me, the irony). I’m kind of like a jack-of-all-trades. I can learn in pretty much any way, and am pretty good at most courses, as well as being pretty athletic. I recently (not really like a year ago) switched from console gaming to “laptop” (PC) gaming. I play Minecraft and Valorant. I’m only Iron 3 in Valorant but its still fun. I also work realllllly slowly on some things, (like this one). It took me about 3/4 of an hour to write this. Pain.

My Favorite Website

https://www.twitch.tv

Either this or youtube are my favorite websites because you can find watch videos that help you with school, or watch Streamers, Sports and eSports.

A Video

I want to do well in math, and this guy’s channel is really useful and cool.

Another video, but I won’t take away from the greatness of Eddie and won’t embed this video:

ww.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0

Favorite Image

Museums post their best duck pictures in greatest Twitter battle ever - CNET

Okay, this is an inside joke about an obsession for ducks… Its too long to explain past that.

Favorite Quote

The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort, you were made for greatness

– Pope Benedict XVI

References

https://www.youtube.com/

https://www.cnet.com/news/museums-post-their-best-duck-pictures-in-greatest-twitter-battle-ever/

https://misterwootube.com <— Eddie Woo Youtube Channel