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Meal Management

Meal management involves planning, organizing, controlling, and evaluating meals to provide nutrition, spending control, satisfying meals, and efficient use of time and resources. Planning meals includes listing foods for each meal (the menu), as well as budgeting, purchasing, storing, and preparing food. Factors to consider when planning meals are nutritional adequacy, food budget, cultural/religious food habits, preparation time and skills, aesthetics, and psychology of food presentation and variety. A menu lists specific foods for each course according to common meal patterns such as breakfast (fruit, protein, bread), lunch/supper (protein, vegetables, cereal), and dinner (appetizer, protein, vegetables, cereal, dessert).

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Meal Management

Meal management involves planning, organizing, controlling, and evaluating meals to provide nutrition, spending control, satisfying meals, and efficient use of time and resources. Planning meals includes listing foods for each meal (the menu), as well as budgeting, purchasing, storing, and preparing food. Factors to consider when planning meals are nutritional adequacy, food budget, cultural/religious food habits, preparation time and skills, aesthetics, and psychology of food presentation and variety. A menu lists specific foods for each course according to common meal patterns such as breakfast (fruit, protein, bread), lunch/supper (protein, vegetables, cereal), and dinner (appetizer, protein, vegetables, cereal, dessert).

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Meal Management

Definition
• Meal management is a process whereby resources, both material and
human, are used to obtain goals that have to do with feeding the
individual or the group.
• It involves planning, organizing, controlling and evaluating the meal
service.

• The goal of meal management is to provide food that will ensure the
physical and mental growth of the person, his social development and
well being, with a reasonable expenditure of available resources.

• The goals are specifically categorized as good nutrition, planned


spending, satisfying meals and controlled use of time and energy.
Planning Meals
Planning meals include not only the listing of foods to serve at any one
meal, know as the menu, but these activities as well:

1. Planning the food budget

2. Planning for food purchase, choosing the markets, buying and


storing supplies

3. Planning for preparation and serving of meals


Factors to consider in Planning Meals
While planning meal following factors should be considered:

1. Nutritional Adequacy: The provision of palatable foods that are


rich in essential nutrients. Nutrient needs of an individual are affected
by age, gender, body build and the activities engaged in by the
individual.

2. The food Budget: Food budget is influenced by family income,


knowledge of the market shopper’s skills, family food likes and
dislikes and their goals and values.
3. Differences in food habits:
This includes the dietary habits of nationality groups, regional food patterns, cultural
and religious food patterns and the socioeconomic background.

4. The time and the skill of the meal manager:


The length of meal preparation, experience and the amount of time available are to be
considered. Availability and quality of the food to be served.

5. Aesthetic and psychological aspects of food:


The proper combination of flavour, texture and shapes as well as variety in colour,
form and arrangement.
Procedure in Menu Planning
• A menu is a list of specific foods or dishes that fits the meal pattern
selected. The meal pattern is something like an outline which lists the
parts of the meal called courses.

• It suggests the kinds of food that make up each course.


Meal Patterns for a Day’s Meals
Breakfast Dinner

Fruit Appetizer
Main Dish or Protein Dish Main Dish/protein Dish
Bread or Cereal Vegetables
Beverage Cereals
Dessert
• Lunch or Supper
Beverage
Main Dish/Protein Dish
Vegetable dish
Cereal
Dessert

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