Cycle Menu
Preparing 10 days cycle menu for regular diet based on 2000 calorie.
The cycle menu provides three meals and appropriate snacks every day for a
nutritionally, balanced, and varietal diet.
Factors affecting menu planning:
1. Clientele: the food items are selected in a manner to prevent any conflicts with
different religions (e.g. pork and alcohol). We take cultural preferences and
traditional meals into consideration.
2. Avaliability of food: the food items are chosen according to their season
availability (e.g. cabbage, orange).
3. Avaliability of equipment and arrangement of physical facilities: the cycle
menu was planned to be produced with the available workspace and equipment
(eg. the amount of freezer and refrigerator space suitable to item used).
4. Personnel skills: the skills of cookers in Hamza Hospital affect on the food item
that we are chosen (e.g. they can make pastries and Malfoof)
5. Money budget of food: the cycle menu does not contain expensive items (e.g.
strawberry, kiwi, and sweet potato).
6. Appealing menu items:
 Color: we avoid serving foods of the same color at one meal to be good
appealing.
 Texture: the texture of food items are varied at one meal.
Example: Breakfast day 1: {bread (soft), hummus (smooth), and cucumber
(crispy)}.
 Temprature: the food items at one meal have various temperatures (e.g.
Mujadarah (hot), yogurt (cold)).
 Shape and form: the food items are served in different forms such as whole
pieces, squeezed, or sliced.
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*Note: sometimes we have considered falafel as vegetable and other time as
protein according to food tracker composition.

Cycle-Menu

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    Cycle Menu Preparing 10days cycle menu for regular diet based on 2000 calorie. The cycle menu provides three meals and appropriate snacks every day for a nutritionally, balanced, and varietal diet. Factors affecting menu planning: 1. Clientele: the food items are selected in a manner to prevent any conflicts with different religions (e.g. pork and alcohol). We take cultural preferences and traditional meals into consideration. 2. Avaliability of food: the food items are chosen according to their season availability (e.g. cabbage, orange). 3. Avaliability of equipment and arrangement of physical facilities: the cycle menu was planned to be produced with the available workspace and equipment (eg. the amount of freezer and refrigerator space suitable to item used). 4. Personnel skills: the skills of cookers in Hamza Hospital affect on the food item that we are chosen (e.g. they can make pastries and Malfoof) 5. Money budget of food: the cycle menu does not contain expensive items (e.g. strawberry, kiwi, and sweet potato). 6. Appealing menu items:  Color: we avoid serving foods of the same color at one meal to be good appealing.
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     Texture: thetexture of food items are varied at one meal. Example: Breakfast day 1: {bread (soft), hummus (smooth), and cucumber (crispy)}.  Temprature: the food items at one meal have various temperatures (e.g. Mujadarah (hot), yogurt (cold)).  Shape and form: the food items are served in different forms such as whole pieces, squeezed, or sliced. Sunday Meals MondayTuesdayWednesday
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    *Note: sometimes wehave considered falafel as vegetable and other time as protein according to food tracker composition.