Planning Meals for the Family

1. Planning Meals for the
Family

2. • Planning family meals is a process done
before preparing and serving meals.
• It involves series of activities that require
thinking and decision making

3. • The importance of planning lies in the fact
that it enables the homemakers to know
exactly what to prepare, how to prepare, and
when to prepare the food for the family.
• He/she also knows what to buy, where to
buy, how to buy, and how much money he/
she needs for all the purchase.

4. Factors to Consider in
Planning Meals

5. Resources that are available to
the family
• The time to be spent in preparing and buying
the ingredients for the meal.
• The tools and equipment needed for the
efficient preparation of the meals.
• The money needed to buy all the necessary
ingredients, fuel, and others.
• The number of family members who are
available to help in the preparation.

6. The goals of the family in
relation to the meals
What does the family aim to achieve in
planning and preparing meals? Does it put
importance to the nutritional value?
One or a combination of these goals can
influence the kind and quality of meals to be
serve to the family.

7. Values of the family
• Value is the worth attached to an idea,
object, or action, here, one would ask: what
values do the family members attached to
the food served to them ?
• The value s the family holds toward food and
towards family meals has a direct influence
on the time, effort, and money spent in the
careful planning, preparing and serving
foods.

8. Rules in planning Meals

9. Rule #1: Plan meals that meet
the nutrient requirements of the
family
• This ensures a margin of safety to meet
emergeency needs in case of accident, disease,
illness, and other similar conditions.

10. Rule #2: Plan meals that the
family like to eat
• This assures the homemakers that the foods
he/she prepares will be eaten by the family.

11. Rule # 3: plan meals that are
aesthetically satisfying
• An aesthetically satisfying meal is one that is
appealing to the eyes.
– There must be variation in form, color,
texture, and flavor.

12. Rule #4: Plan meals that are safe and free
from harmful microorganisms that may
cause diseases.
• Food safety starts with buying ingredients that
are free from contamination
• He/she must buy foods from reliable sources to
reduce the risk of buying contaminated foods.

13. Rule #5: Plan meals that can be prepared
with the less amount of time, energy,
fuel, and other resources,.
Work simplification is finding the simplest,
quickest, and easiest way of doing things.
• The goal of simplification is to conserve time,
energy, and other resources.

14. Meal Pattern
• Is an outline of the courses comprising the
menu.
• Using meal planning is a one way of
ensuring that the food is adequate, both in
the mount and the kind of nutrients needed
by every family member.

15. Breakfast Lunch Supper
Fruit Soup Soup
Protein dish Meat/ Fish /
Poultry
Meat/ Fish /
Poultry
Cereal/ Bread Vegetable Dish Vegetable Dish
Beverage Rice/ Cereal Rice/ Cereal
Fruits/ Dessert Fruits/ Dessert
Beverages Beverages

16. In deciding which foods to choose to
complete each pattern, it is helpful to
have the ff.
• A list of dishes that the family like.
• A family food plan is a list of foods
classified into groups( meat, fish,
poultry, seafood, etc.)
• A record of current prices of foods in
different markets and grocery stores.

17. • List of foods in season
• A number of cookbooks
• Purchasing guide that help you on what, when
and where to purchase at the most reasonable
prices.
• Compilation of magazines and journals on foods
that gives new, innovative ideas on what to
prepare on different occasions.

18. Sample menu
BREAKFAST
Fruit Ripe Papaya
Protein Dish Fried Egg
Rice/ Bread/
Cereal
Slices of Bread
Beverages Hot Choclate

19. LUNCH
Soup Clear Soup
Meat/ Fish/ Poultry Chicken Affritada
Vegetable Dish Sautéed
Cauliflower
Rice Plain Rice
Dessert Mango Gelatin
Beverages Coffee

20. SUPPER
Soup Cream of
Vegetable Soup
Meat/ Fish/ Poultry Charbroiled
Chicken
Vegetable Dish Coleslaw
Rice Rice
Dessert Lacatan Banana
Beverages Coffee

21. Do
Things to Do pg. 93