5 Main Areas:
1.Food Safety & Food labs
2.Food Choices
3.Nutrition & Health
4.Local & Global Foods
Keeping you and the food safe!
Food Safety
 Common Kitchen Accidents
 Bacteria & Food Born Illness
 Fire Safety
 Anaphylactic Shock
 Hazard Analysis Critical Control (HACCP)
Food Labs
 We will cook and/or taste test a variety of food
throughout the semester, approximately once a week
Foods will include:
Cookies
Smoothies
salad
Pancakes
Tacos & burritos
soup
Vegetarian
Baked goods for
Chicken
sushi (no
MAAD night (April)
fish)!
Food Labs
In groups
of about 4
students
Building
teamwork
Trying
new foods
Reflecting
& learning
to improve
skills
Why do we eat what we eat?
Nutrition & Health
What are calories, proteins and carbohydrates
anyway?
Nutrition, Health & Wellness
 Canada’s Food Guide
 6 main nutrients
 Details about some key vitamins &
minerals
 What happens if you don’t get enough
Achieving Wellness
•Body Image
•Changing Perceptions in
Beauty
•Eating Disorders
•Maintaining a Healthy Body
weight
 Availability
of Food
 Food & Environmental Responsibility
 Food Security

(why some people don’t have enough food)
 Some
thing we do in addition to learning
about it is a simulation
 The “$12 meal challenge”
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Students prepare a healthy meal for 5-6 people
that includes and appetizer, main dish, dessert
and beverage (no prepackaged food)
The hard part? You can only spend $12 total!!
This would be similar to the budget of a low
income family or single-parent family
FIELD TRIPS
TRIPS WILL INCLUDE
 Trip

to Freshco
in January for the $12 meal challenge
 In
the fall The Royal Winter Fair
 In the spring The good food festival
& a tour of Humber College’s
culinary program
FINAL EVALUATION
How do we earn that 30%
15% HEALTHY MEAL AT HOME
You
will get to create a meal
for your family to show off all
the cook things you’ve been
learning
15% IN CLASS WRITTEN FINAL EXAM
This
will be based on all the
units studied throughout the
course