Design a poster advertising one staple food.

There are many different reasons why we eat the food we do. Complete the spider diagram below on possible reasons why we eat different foods.

Explain the reasons for food choice in more depth by completing the following table;

Reason / Why
Cost / Food costs are rising. Some people can not afford expensive foods. Supermarkets own brands tend to be cheaper so many people may eat and buy them.

What is quality control?

How can flow charts help quality control?

How does quality control help costing?

What are quality control steps?

Why is the use of ICT in quality control important?

What factors can be monitored using IT to ensure a quality product?

What quality control steps could you include when making – a curry, pizza and cheesecake? Use the table below to answer,

Curry / Pizza / Cheesecake

Flow charts are used to help us ensure products are to a high quality. They give people step by step plans of how to make a product to the expected standard so that products are to an expected standard. In flow charts we use the following symbols for different aspects of the chart.

The following is an example of a flow chart for a sandwich;

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Ingredient / Cost in pennies
(use receipt) / Weight in pack
(check packaging) / Weight used in grams
(see recipe) / Cost per gram
(Weight divided by cost) / Total amount used
(cost per g times amount used)
Total cost of dish

What are multi cultural foods?

Why are multicultural foods becoming more popular?

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Other cultures have many differences to traditional English foods. The following factors need thinking about when discussing multicultural foods:

Seasoning - In traditional English cooking we tend to use salt, pepper, stocks and gravy’s to flavour food. In other cultures they use herbs and spices more. Write I list of all the herbs and spices you can think of.

Herbs / Spices

Seasonal and Local – due to weaker transporting links than we have and traditional reasons some other cultures use only local and seasonal food as it is cheap and available.

Religion – Many religions have strong views on foods which can be consumer and how animals should be killed. Complete the following chart on how religion effects food consumption;

Religion / What are their beliefs on food

In this country we now eat many different foods. Complete the following chart on each nationality and the foods which traditionally come from that culture;

Nationality / Foods/ Dishes (inc desserts and starters)
Chinese
Indian
Mexican
Spanish
French
Thai
Greek
Italian

A staple food is;

Staple foods are;

Quite easy to ______, ______, ______

Relatively ______

______because they are very bland and can absorb many flavours, both sweet and savoury and they are available in many forms

Healthy because they are low in ______, ______and ______and can be high in ______.

Draw out and complete the following table on the diagram above;

Country / Main staple food / Other staple foods

Homework;

Design a poster advertising one staple food.

Country / Main staple food / Other staple foods

Write a flow chart for one of the dishes you have cooked. Make sure you use the correct symbols.

Assessment 1
Food choice
/ Assessment 2
Multi cultural foods

Assessment 3
Staple foods
/ Assessment 4
Staple food homework

Assessment 5
Flow chart
/ Assessment 6
Costing