Learning to cook, create, and compile delicious

family recipes

Jasmine Fahrnbauer

Research

• Many American families have switched to a more convenient lifestyle of fast food eating

• Who is being affected and why?

• How do we prevent it?

Childhood Obesity

• How does it affect children?

• Education

• Social behaviors

• Self esteem

• Health issues

Why a family cookbook?

• Didn’t want to one day become a mother one day who couldn’t provide wholesome meals to my children

• I grew up eating family dinners every night

• Creating and learning something useful

• My grandmother

Process

• 1. Beginning of process, I coordinated with my grandmother, mom, and my three aunts

• Called my grandmother and went over to her house

• Invited my aunts over to discuss cookbook

• Talked with my mom

Process

• 2. Learning the recipes

• Grandmother came over once a month to help me learn to cook these recipes

Putting it all together

• 3. Typing up the cookbook

-43 recipes

- typing, editing, revising

Challenges

• Problems with my computer

• Getting it printed

Project Facilitator

• My project Facilitator was Ms. Carnes

• Gave me websites to create my cookbook on

• Helped me create the outline for the cookbook

• Find websites for research paper

• Tips on how to cook recipes in healthy way

• Told me how to substitute my ingredients

What I learned

• Don’t always have to be exact

• Experiment with foods

• Substitute ingredients

• Practice makes perfect

• Not to give up

• Encouraged me to better my diet

Thank you for your time!

• Are there any questions?