what is meal planning? list the factors affecting meal planning?
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It is not very easy to provide acceptable mi to each member of the family according their likings. Even after being familiar all the principles of meal planning, a house- is often unable to select foods according to members of the family as the number of factors affect meal planning which are as follows:
Economic factor
The amount and the kind of food for a family depend on its income. With the decrease in income percentage, expenditure food increases and hence more careful efforts are required to plan meals. Society can be divided into three categories on the basis of income - lower, middle, and high income groups.
With the increase in income, choice in selecting foods can be wider for seasonal or non-seasonal foods and such foods can be procured locally or from far off places. But people belonging to lower income group can't afford costly foods such as milk, meat, fruits, etc. Therefore, it is desirable to adopt such measures that provide nutritious food at a low cost. Some such measures are as follows
(i) Use more of less expensive foods like cereals. In place of expensive cereals like rice and wheat, use low cost cereals like rage, mower, bare, etc.
(ii) Use jiggery in place of sugar.
(iii) Use seasonal and locally produced fruits and vegetables.
(iv) Use methods like sprouting, fermentation, and combination of foods to enhance nutritive value. For example, khichdi made by combination of cereal and pulses is very nutritious food.
(v) Use methods like pressure cooking to retain nutritive value of foods
(vi) Use cheap nuts like groundnuts.
(vii) Utilise leftovers properly.
Economic factor
The amount and the kind of food for a family depend on its income. With the decrease in income percentage, expenditure food increases and hence more careful efforts are required to plan meals. Society can be divided into three categories on the basis of income - lower, middle, and high income groups.
With the increase in income, choice in selecting foods can be wider for seasonal or non-seasonal foods and such foods can be procured locally or from far off places. But people belonging to lower income group can't afford costly foods such as milk, meat, fruits, etc. Therefore, it is desirable to adopt such measures that provide nutritious food at a low cost. Some such measures are as follows
(i) Use more of less expensive foods like cereals. In place of expensive cereals like rice and wheat, use low cost cereals like rage, mower, bare, etc.
(ii) Use jiggery in place of sugar.
(iii) Use seasonal and locally produced fruits and vegetables.
(iv) Use methods like sprouting, fermentation, and combination of foods to enhance nutritive value. For example, khichdi made by combination of cereal and pulses is very nutritious food.
(v) Use methods like pressure cooking to retain nutritive value of foods
(vi) Use cheap nuts like groundnuts.
(vii) Utilise leftovers properly.
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