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Basic Concepts in Meal Management

Meal management refers to efficiently planning and preparing nutritious and appealing meals using available resources. Meal planning involves deciding what foods to serve, how to prepare and buy them, and allocating time and money. A meal plan outlines the dining options over a set period, while a menu pattern specifies the components of each meal.

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Basic Concepts in Meal Management

Meal management refers to efficiently planning and preparing nutritious and appealing meals using available resources. Meal planning involves deciding what foods to serve, how to prepare and buy them, and allocating time and money. A meal plan outlines the dining options over a set period, while a menu pattern specifies the components of each meal.

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BASIC CONCEPTS IN

MEAL MANAGEMENT
Meal is an instance of eating in
a specific time and includes
MEAL specific food preparation
Management means getting
people together to accomplish
MANAGEMENT desired goals and objectives
using available resources
Meal Management refers to the
effective and efficient use of
available resources to provide
MEAL meals that are nutritionally
MANAGEMENT adequate, sanitary and aesthetically
pleasing, economical in terms of
cost and of time and energy
preparation
Meal Planning is the process of thinking or
deciding the series of activities in meal
management
 

MEAL a. What will I serve or how much will I serve?


b. How will I serve the food?
PLANNING
c. Where will I buy the food?
d. How much will I buy or what will I buy?
e. How will I prepare the food or how much will I prepare?
f. How shall I set the table?
g. How much time/money will I need?
Meal Plan is the number of dining
MEAL PLAN options offered within a specific
period of time.
Meal Pattern is an outline of the
MEAL number of meals offered with
PATTERN corresponding components over a
specific period of time
Menu is a detailed list of food
MENU items that may be ordered or
served.
Menu Planning entails thinking
through and listing down specific food
and dishes desired for one meal such
MENU as breakfast, lunch or supper or
PLANNING throughout the day including snacks,
or even throughout the week or
month
Menu Pattern is an outline of
MENU food to be included in each
PATTERN meal
Philosophy is a study of general and
fundamental problems

PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS IN MENU PLANNING:


a) What can mealtime contribute to family communication?
PHILOSOPHY b) How important is cost control in the food budget
c) Can family meals enhance social skills of individuals?
d) How can family meals promote the health of various family members?
e) Can various family members develop creativity by helping in meal
preparation and service?
f) In what other ways can family meals add to the quality of life in a family,
as a group, or as individuals?
Value is something considered very
desirable and significant; intrinsically
desirable, of relative worth or of importance

VALUES IN MEAL PLANNING:


a) Good Health
VALUES b) Social Values
c) Cultural Values
d) Management of time, energy or combination of these
resources
e) Value for Money and Conservation
f) Value for creativity
g.) Value for education
Goals are aims or objectives that
people try to reach.
 
GOALS *Goals depend on what the family values. If
the family’s priority is good health then the
goals in planning a meal should meet its
demands

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