For my 3# project, I decided to learn how to cook healthy foods. Eating healthy foods has not been a big part of my routine or diet and cooking sure is not a skill of mine, but that just made it more of a reason to be my new challenge. I wanted to learn how to cook healthy foods in order to benefit me in the future.
I was able to google certain healthy food recipes and I also asked my mom for assistance on how to get started and where to find the specific ingredients as well as learning how to use the certain tools. I looked up certain videos as soon as I learned how to use all the tools and began to do things on my own while following the recipes I chose from online.
For this new quarter I plan on repeating some of the dishes I learned in order to make sure I got it down the first time. It is important to practice the meals over again so that I can do it fully on my own for more to come. I would also like to add more simple and faster dishes to make, as I am always on the go especially during these final months and volleyball season!
My greatest challenge coming up this quarter will be how frequent I will not be home. I am worried that I will not be home as much as I thought in order to make the foods I have chosen, but I am hopeful that I can find some time in between school and volleyball. In order to make time I will set a date and time one day each week just for cooking.
Furthermore, by doing this project in the first quarter I was able to learn more about my favorite meals and the skills, knowledge, and planning that goes into them. Cooking requires a lot of focus for the portion of the recipe where you need to make sure you get the right amounts established to pour into your bowl or pan. After that, it is mainly waiting, mixing, or assembling. Normally during those times I bring my speaker down and play music to make it more fun and to make the time go by faster.
This project really opened my eyes as to how much thought and effort my mom and dad put for us for each meal we eat together as a family. When I cooked each meal, I watched as my family members would take a bite and I wanted to see if their reactions were good or bad. Now I know that as a cook it takes a lot of courage to make a dish and not know if someone is going to truly like it or not. In my family we used to always joke with my mom that she was a bad cook, but now I am not going to do that anymore because I bet my food doesn’t taste nearly as good as hers and as I said, I now know that it takes a lot to make food and share it with others. Being told your food doesn’t taste good will hurt because you put all of that time, ingredients, and effort into it and you were excited to hand it out and see the reactions. It has not happened to me, but I am sure it will.
Overall, I am really looking forward to continuing this project in order to get more practice for my future. Cooking is a challenging skill for me, but I cannot wait to strengthen it more and more when I can! Prepare to see new on the go dishes and some possible repeated dishes that I will attempt to do from memory!
Healthy Cooking 