1. My Plate Final Assignment
Creative Foods

2. Final Assignment Your Mission: Must include:
Make a nutritious meal that contains all of the food groups and resembles the new My-Plate Icon
Must include:
Recipe and step by step directions to prepare each portion of your meal
At least 3 pictures (process & final product)
7 paragraph essay detailing a nutritional benefit found in each food on the plate

4. Food Groups
Grains
Vegetable
Fruits
Dairy
Protein

5. Example

6. Example

7. Chili 1lb lean ground beef 1 (15oz) can black beans
1 (15oz) can pink beans
1(10oz) can chipotles with adobo sauce
1 (12oz) can roasted tomatoes
Directions: Place ground beef, beans, chipotles, and tomatoes in a crock pot on low heat for 6-8 hours. *Serve with 1 serving (14 chips) of whole grain tortilla chips

8. Fruits and Veggies Strawberries Carrots Celery ½ cup per person
Directions: cut into bite size pieces
Carrots
Directions: Cut into matchsticks
Celery

9. Essay 7 paragraph essay on the nutritional content of your meal.
Briefly describe the nutritional importance of each menu item in a brief paragraph.
Example: Chili
Protein Choose only 1
Lycopene in tomatoes topic to discuss
Capsaicin in chipotles

10. Fruits and Veggies Strawberries Carrots Celery Vitamin C Anthocyanins
Vitamin A (Beta-Carotene)
Celery
Potassium
Folate
All contain fiber

11. Chips and Dairy Whole grain Corn Chips Milk Carbohydrate Thiamin
Niacin
Milk
Calcium
Vitamin D
Riboflavin
Protein

12. ***No plagiarism… or else!!!***
Essay Layout Example
Introduction paragraph
Describe why you chose this meal
2nd paragraph: describe benefits of a nutrient found in your grain
3rd paragraph: describe benefits of a nutrient found in your fruit
4th paragraph: describe benefits of a nutrient found in your veg
5th paragraph: describe benefits of a nutrient found in your dairy
6th paragraph: describe benefits of a nutrient found in your protein
Last paragraph
Describe the results, the taste, texture, and appearance of the meal. Would you make it again?
***No plagiarism… or else!!!***

13. Final Project Rubric Pictures (15pts) Minimum of three pictures
Step by step procedure
Final product
Recipes (10pts)
Essay
Introduction (5pt)
Paragraph 2 (10pts) Nutrient is properly identified
Paragraph 3 (10pts) and explained for paragraph 2-6
Paragraph 4 (10pts)
Paragraph 5 (10pts)
Paragraph 6 (10pts)
Conclusion (5pts)
Peer/parent evaluation (10pts)
Works Cited/Resources (5pts)
100 Total Points

14. Resources http://nutritiondata.self.com/ http://www.nutrition.gov

15. Upload Final Project to Google Docs
Go to Moodle
Log in
Go to Google Docs on the left hand side and click on it
Compose your essay in the word document.
Pictures and recipe can be done in PowerPoint or the document
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