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
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| Who’s cooking | Parent A, Teen 2 | Teen 1 | Teen 2 | Parent B | Parent A |
| What’s cooking | Meatballs and Rice | Beef and Spinach Lasagna | Black Bean Tortillas | Ginger glazed salmon and Rice | Leftover 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
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).