Cookbook: Your Recipes Made Healthy

A WebQuery for 6th Grade

Designed by

Geneva Taylor, taylorg@cwu.edu

 

Introduction | Task | Process | Resources | Evaluation | Conclusion

Introduction

Get your grandmothers cookbook and get those family recipes out of the kitchens pantries and lets cook. This time were cooking in a whole new way! We are taking those delicious recipes and replacing those fatty ingredients with healthier and tasty substitutes. Your grandfather has diabetes or maybe your sister is on a gluten free diet? How will you cook for them? Is all hope gone? NO, there are marvelous substitutes for these ingredients and youre going to find them and change those old recipes and make them new and healthy. So give your grandfather those chocolate chip cookies as long as the recipe came out of our class cookbook. Cook Book. Yes! We are making a cookbook full of your old and new recipes.

The big essential question:

•     Can unhealthy behavior be changed?

Task

When the cookbook is completed we will have a potluck and share recipes. Were not using our own recipes. Were drawing straws and you will randomly make one of your classmates recipes for the potluck. You will be graded on the taste of your food, so lets get in the kitchen and get started.

Find recipes online, in a cookbook, or use a family recipe its up to you

• Produce the same cuisine with new and healthier ingredients 
• personally add your own flavor to your page in the recipe book
• write your new recipes with clear and easy to understand instructions
• Process the old recipes and gather information about the new recipes and place them in the book  

There are many different sources online with information about different ways to make your food healthier. Also, there are books that help people with different dietary needs, because of different illnesses. I will bring to class different sources on how to cook healthier, such as: cookbooks, magazines, and informational books on cooking.

The Process

Here are some questions you might ask yourself during the process of this activity. It is not necessary to answer all of these questions, but being familiar with some of the right answers will let you know you are moving in the right direction.

• Does the rubric determine my grade?
• Which recipe do I want in the classroom cookbook?
•  What different ingredients will I use to make my dish healthier?
• Whose dish will I recreate and bring to the potluck?
• Is this dish good?
• Who can I go to for help?
• Potluck: Are people enjoying my dish?
• Will I use this cookbook after this activity is over?

Resources

Here are some web sites that will assist you in looking for different ways to make your recipes healthier. There are also other web sites that explain different substitute that can be used in your new, recreated, dish.

•        http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/collections.php This web site gives different recipes that have been made healthy. 
•        http://christmas.betterrecipes.com/ Holiday dishes are always packed full of calories, but with this web site you bring the calories down without losing flavors.
•        http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/default.htm This site gives information about making smarter ingredient choices and also has interesting facts about food.  
•        http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/healthy-recipes/NU00585 A list of foods and how to substitute them for a healthier lifestyle.
•        http://www.meatlessmonday.com/site/PageServer?pagename=tips_substitutions On the Meatless Monday site you can find a large amount of information about healthy living without meat.

Evaluation

CATEGORY	4   Excellent	3   Very Good	2   Average	1   Needs Work
Creativity	Put a lot of thought into making the dish healthy and tastefully and changing the ingredients to shown creativity.	Put some thought into making the dish healthy and tastefully by using some ingredients change.	Tried to make the dish healthy and tastefully, but only 1 or 2 ingredients were changed.	Little thought was put into making the dish healthy or tastefully.
Attractiveness	Contrasting colors and at least 3 original graphics were used to give your page of the cook book visual appeal.	Contrasting colors and at least 2 original graphic were used to give your page of the cook book visual appeal.	Contrasting colors and "borrowed" graphics were used to give your page of the cook book visual appeal.	Little or no color or fewer than 3 graphics were included.
Accuracy of Content	All information of the recipes were made for the dish are correct.	All but one of the information of the recipe made for the dish are correct.	All but two of the information of the recipe made for the dish are correct.	Several information of the recipe made for the dish are not accurate.
Potluck	Made the dish successfully and was very tasty to the class.	Made the dish good and tasted pretty good.	Made the dish o.k. and tasted o.k.,	Made the dish poorly and tasted terrible.

Conclusion

By now you have quite a bit of surface knowledge about cooking and how to make dishes healthier. You are aware of many different substitutes you can use for meals. I hope that you feel more knowledgeable about cooking and finding out important information about healthier ways to cook. Now get to cooking your next cuisine. I hope you use some of the recipes from the cookbook we have created.

 

 

 

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