1. How Food Affects Life
Unit 1

2. Bellwork: What, why and how will you have dinner tonight?

3. Influences on Food Choice
Influences on Food Choices
Social Influences – how?
Culture
Family/Friends
Think-pair-Share a favorite family food, discuss
School lunches
Parties/Events
Individual and Family Income
Costs

4. Influences on Food Choice
For many people, preparing and eating food are social activities.
Food brings people together.
Just as food plays a part in social life, social life plays a part in eating habits and food choices.

5. Influences on Food Choice
Society and Culture (All-write round robin)
How do each of these influence food choices? Discuss
Dietary laws
Etiquette
Special occasions
Ethnic traditions
Religious beliefs
Peer preferences

6. Influences on Food Choice
Current Trends & Food Choices
How do these affect you?

7. Family Size How does the size of your family affect what you eat?
Picky Eaters
Budget
Foods prepared in bulk

8. Single People
How does a single person eat differently than when they home?
Budget
Eat out
Simple
Adventurous

9. Life Span Do your grandparents like different foods than you?
Influenced by their parents
Past economic status
Health Conditions

10. Use of Leisure Time When people “Go Out”, what do they usually do?
Social Activity
Choose to make dinner

11. Grazing When do most people “Graze”? Chew Gum Eat before you go
Have a glass of milk

12. Cooking for a Hobby How many cook as a form of leisure?
Media influence
Can be unhealthy
Creative outlet
Affects you if your parent has it as a hobby

13. 3rd Block Bellwork
Give 3 examples of how you can be socially influenced to eat something (discussed in the last class.)

14. Dual-Income Families
If you have more money, how are your choices of food different?
Nutritious= expensive
Eat out more
Hobby

15. Emphasis on fitness How are Olympic Athletes influenced by food?
Special Diets
Training
Knowing what food does to body
Food is FUEL

16. Eating Ethnic Foods How do we expose ourselves to Ethnic Foods?
Eating out
Trying new things
Ethnic friends
Travel

17. Influences on Food Choice
Holidays
All cultures have special days for celebration.
Traditions abound in holiday celebrations.
Many traditions are related to food.
Identify 3 traditions in your family that involve food. What is the food?
How would the tradition be different without the food? Discuss.

18. Family Traditions Activity
Create 3 traditions that you will pass down to your children in which food will be involved.
No more than 1 tradition can come from one holiday
Remember this is for your kids so be specific as to where the tradition would take place

19. Family Traditions Activity
Explain your traditions. Include:
Purpose of the tradition?
What food will be included? How? Why?
Decorations? What are the colors (if any)?
Birthdays, icing color, etc
Is it international or US only?

20. Family Traditions Activity
Make a poster depicting all 3
Answer all 4 questions on back of poster FOR EACH!!!!
Graded by a rubric, guided sheet
Food Journal…. monday

21. Bellwork
Find your TRADITIONS poster, you have 20 minutes to complete it. Be ready to present

22. Influences on Food What do you choose to eat when you are hungry?
Where do you usually eat?
Who is with you when you eat?
When do you eat?
How does food make you feel?
Food Habits!
No identical answers

23. Cultural Influences Culture determines a lot of what we eat
“What is culture?” worksheet
At tables, WRITE Round Robin
Write your idea on a square, share, pass
Discuss what you THINK culture is/is not
Red Pencil
Take NOTES on what it really is

24. Influences on Food Choice
Culture is the customs and beliefs of a racial, religious, or social group.

25. Cultural Influences Characteristics of Culture: Actions of that group
Things they believe
State of mind
Way of life
Non-Essential Characteristics
Not just their religion
More than heritage
Can be a combination of things

26. Cultural Influences Examples Manners & Etiquette Clothing FOOD!
Religious, social beliefs
Speech
Ideas
Non-Examples
Negative Behaviors

27. Why so much Culture? Immigration to the US from all over “Melting Pot”
Lived together in areas of cities/country
Adapted their recipes to available resources
Most “American” foods found in the Midwest

28. Individually, then share
Name regions of the United States and identify particular foods that come to mind
New England,
South,
Midwest,
Southwest,
Pacific Coast,
Hawaiian Islands

29. New England

30. South

31. Midwest

32. Southwest

33. Pacific Coast

34. Hawaiian

35. History of American Cuisine
Watch video
Answer Questions
Discuss
Food Journal

36. Psychological vs. Physical Influences on Food Choice
Does the scent in the room remind of anything in particular? A certain place, time in your life or activity. How else does it make you feel?

37. Influences on Food Choice
Social (Family & Friends)
Religious
Cultural
Psychological
Physical

38. Internal Influences Physical Needs Nutritional requirements
Body craves nutritional foods
Pregnant Women
Fuel for the body
Helps it function properly

39. Hunger
We eat because we’re hungry!
Grazing not physical
Schedule

40. Activity level Are you more hungry when you’re active?
Why?
CALORIES- needed for the body to run

41. General health status
Wellness - a philosophy that people are responsible for their own health.
Food is fuel
Less for entertainment
Ward of boredom

42. Psychological Needs
Factors in your environment that affect your food choices.
ROUND ROBIN- what are factors in your life that affect what you eat…….

43. Psychological Needs Security Comfort Food
Having the basic necessities of life, appetite
Comfort Food
ROUND ROBIN- Favorite comfort foods & why

44. Psychological Needs
A sense of belonging - food is associated with hospitality
What is hospitality?
What foods do you serve when people come over?

45. Psychological Needs
Enjoyment - favorite foods, attitudes, emotions and feelings
Food can satisfy emotional needs.
Babies associate food with warmth and security.
Children associate food with pleasurable experiences.
Adults associate food with times of happiness.

46. Influences on Food Choice
Personal Food Preferences
Taste
Smell, color, texture
Associations of foods with positive or familiar activities
Aversion- The avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior because it has been associated with an unpleasant or painful stimulus.

47. Psychological Needs It’s all in your head……. Research on a new M&M
Food Served on colored plates
Certain foods not found in nature

48. Greet & Go Read your card to each other Walk around the room
Go back to tables
What do you think this is all about?

49. The Tricks of the Trade
Be a smart consumer & realize sometimes there is more than meets the eye.
How?
Understanding that what you see isn't always what you get.

50. Wendy's Chicken Club

51. McDonald's Sausage Breakfast Burrito

52. Arby's Beef 'n' Cheddar

53. Subway six-inch turkey breast and ham sub

54. McDonald's Big Mac

55. Taco Bell Nachos Bell Grande

56. McDonald's Sausage McMuffin

57. 3rd Block Bellwork
Complete, “Favorite Foods” on the back of your notes
Jot down HOW you are influenced to eat that food!
Example: Cereal- Social Influence- My mom buys it so it is what we always have
TEST QUESTION!!!

58. Advertising
A key way the media influences your food choices: advertising
Specific encouragement:
Curiosity - try something different
Desire to belong– everyone’s using it
Pride – only worthwhile people use it
Saving $$$ - coupons, rebates & special offers

59. Current Trends Incomplete or inaccurate information through media =
fad- a popular food practice for a time
Example: Atkins diet
fallacy- a mistaken belief
Example: Eating after 9 makes you gain weight
Related to weight loss & safety issues

60. Food Fads & Fallacies Fads are based on Fallacy
Can be harmful to health
-Raw eggs to build muscle
Can be a disappointment
-No results
RESEARCH!
-Consult the web, doctor, others who’ve
done it!

61. Let’s Test Your Skills
Are you a product of good advertisement & Food Styling?

62. Food Journal
Name a food that you have chosen based on a psychological influence.
How were you influenced in your choice?
Based on class information, why was your choice an example of psychological influence on food choice?
Name a food that you have chosen based on a physical influence.
Based on class information, why was your choice an example of physical influence on food choice?

64. Influences on Food Choice
External Influences
Food Availability
Growing seasons
Production facilities
Distribution channels
Family choices
Food Supply
What foods are available
Environment, climate
Economy

65. Influences on Food Choice
Environment- rain, soil, air, temperature
Government- laws about growing, processing, packaging and labeling.
Economics- the law of supply and demand.
Technology- Develops improved methods

66. Influences on Food Choice
Food Science and Technology
Scientific aspects of food
Nutrition
The science of food preparation
Ergonomics - the study of how to make tools and equipment easier and more comfortable to use.