The problem is that the family wants to have everyone cook at least once a week and that the meals are spread evenly among their strengths and weaknesses. The meal plan should be able to fluidly spread among their weekly activities. The family wants to know who, when, what, dinner will be cooked.
Solution
Days
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Who will cook
Teen 2
Teen 1
Parent A
Parent B
Parent A
What recipe will they cook
Air Fryer Chicken Fajitas
Black Bean Tacos
Beef and Spinach Lasagna
Chickpea Cauliflower Curry
Ginger-glazed salmon
What portion of the recipe
Full recipe
Full Recipe
Quarter recipe
Half Recipe
Full recipe
What time dinner will be ready
Start at 4:30 pm Be ready by 5:30 pm
Start at 5:45pm Be ready by 6:00pm
Start at 4:55 pm Be ready by 6:15 pm
Start at 5:45 pm Be ready by 6:15 pm
Start at 5:55 pm Be ready by 6:15 pm
Air Fryer Chicken Fajitas Ingredients 1 red pepper, cut into 1/2-inch (1 cm) thick slices 1 orange pepper, cut into 1/2-inch (1 cm) thick slices 1 red onion, cut into 1/2-inch (1 cm) thick slices 3 tbsp vegetable oil 2 tbsp chili powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp pepper 1 lb. chicken breasts, cut into strips 12 corn tortillas (6-inch/15 cm), warmed 1 cup guacamole 1/2 cup cilantro leaves 1 cilantro leaves
Air Fryer Chicken Fajitas Recipe Step 1: Preheat air fryer to 375°F (190°C). In large bowl, combine red and orange bell peppers, red onion, vegetable oil, chili powder, salt and pepper until well coated; add chicken, stirring to coat well Step 2: In batches, arrange chicken mixture in air fry tray; cook for 15 to 18 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and vegetables are tender. Step 3: Serve chicken mixture with warmed tortillas, guacamole, cilantro and lime wedges.
Justification
Our meal plan works well because every meal was carefully worked out so that it would work well with everyone in the family’s schedule and so that the recipe would be fully used by the family (so if a recipe was eight servings we did a half recipe). We included it to make sure that after-school/work activities would be included for the other people. For Friday however, we had to make some sacrifices. We made enough servings to feed the family but Teen 1 works on Fridays so we had to make the family eat at 6:30pm. Teen 1 would heat what’s left of the food on Friday and eat then. We could not make the entire family sacrifice eating at 9 30 pm so that they all eat together.
We communicated by: talking to each other when we were having conflicting issues,
We used a shared Word document to work on a table together. I was used to sharing digital tools with other people because of past years being able to use them.
We distributed the work evenly by giving one family member per person. We also split up the remaining questions evenly among the four of us.
I took the role in the family of Parent B. I also did the “Problem” section for my group.
