25 BP!! for this activity, you will be designing a cookbook! Don’t worry, you will not have to create an entire cookbook but rather an excerpt (section) from a potential cookbook that you would create.
You will need to consider all the information that you learned about healthy eating and nutrition from this unit, and use it to create a cookbook focused on a healthy diet.
You can create a hard copy of your cookbook excerpt using paper, cardboard, magazine clippings, etc., or you can create a digital version using a slide presentation type program or a word processing program like Microsoft Word or Power Point.
No matter what medium you choose to use for your cookbook design, you must include the following:
A clever title that clearly expresses what the cookbook is about
An appealing cover with some type of image or images. Images can be hand drawn, created using graphic design tools, or found online
A back cover that includes a brief, summarizing description of your cookbook
An introduction page where you inform readers about what types of recipes and information they will find in your cookbook as well as your personal beliefs about nutrition and healthy eating—think of this page as a more detailed version of your back-cover summary, kind of like a letter to your readers
A ‘health guidelines’ page where you outline what a well-rounded, healthy diet includes. This is where you will include information about how many servings of vegetables, fruits, grains, meats, micro and macronutrients, and calories in vs. calories out, that you believe are ideal for overall good nutrition
One sample recipe. This can be your own personal recipe, a recipe that you create for this project, or a recipe found online. If you use a recipe found online, be sure to properly acknowledge the recipe author and source.
The recipe must include at LEAST one image. It can be a photo of the cooked recipe or several photos to accompany the recipes instructions. You can take actual photos of yourself cooking the recipe, draw a picture of the recipe creation, or find images online that match your recipe.
You might want to research healthy eating cookbooks online or at your local bookstore to get an idea of what you would like your cookbook to look like and offer to readers.