Food choice Factors?
There are 6 different characters in this task, all of whom are making food choices. In groups, students will rotate round each character. They should read each explanation of that person and the food choices they make. In their groups, students should discuss & record 3 or 4 factors that have influenced their person’s food choices. Do this for all of the characters.
Joanna
Joanna is a 35-year-old woman living in Dundee. After a long and stressful day at work, she hops in her car and blasts the heater. Her car thermometer reads 3oC. On her way home she decides to stop by the supermarket cafe. Her food options include sliced roast beef and mashed potatoes (£5), vegetable and lentil soup (£3), or a fresh Prawn salad (£5). Her drinks choices include coffee (£2), bottled water (£1), or Irn-Bru (£1.50).
She chose roast beef and potatoes and Irn-Bru. As she is paying for her meal at the check-out, she spots a double chocolate brownie (£1.50) and decides to purchase that, too.
What factors could have influenced Joanna’s choices for dinner?
Evie
Evie is 12 years-old and in S1. She’s heading to the dinner hall for lunch before meeting up with her friends. There are three lunch queues in the dinner hall. The first two queues each have a salad bar, followed by hot food choices plus drinks including chocolate milk or semi-skimmed milk. One of today’s starter selections is pepperoni pizza, which Evie’s loves.
The third line is a cold food queue. This serves various salad ingredients along with diced chicken & lentils. The salad comes packaged with a whole-grain roll, an apple, and semi-skimmed milk. Evie sees that this queue is the shortest, and chooses this one. Once she has her lunch, she hurries to join her friends.
What factors could have influenced Evie’s choices for lunch?
Mahmood
Mahmood is a 19 year old college student who is Muslim. His alarm clock goes off at 7am. After hitting the snooze button 3 times, he rolls out of bed and gets ready for his first class. It’s winter so Mahmood dresses for the cold weather. He stops by the local shop to get something to eat on his way to college. At the shop he could choose from a pre-packed ham and cheese sandwich (£3.50), a granola & yogurt pot (£2.80), fruit (£1) or a donut (£1.50). To drink, the main choices are water (£1.50), chocolate milk (£1), coffee (£2.50). Mahmood chooses to buy a coffee and a donut.
What factors might have influenced Mahmood’s breakfast food choices?
Daniel
Daniel is a father of 4 children, all of whom are below the age of 10. It is Daniel’s night to take care of the kids’ tea as his partner is working a back shift at the local hospital. His dinner choices include making chicken and vegetable fajitas (ingredients come to £5), putting a couple of pizzas in the oven with garlic bread (£6) or heading to McDonald’s. For the kids he would order 2 Happy Meals with milk, 2 cheeseburger meals with Fanta, he would get a Big Mac Meal, with a coffee, for himself (total = £17.70). He chooses to make the chicken fajitas.
What factors could have influenced Daniel’s choices for his family?
Jamie
Jamie is a 5 year old boy who sometimes stays at his Gran’s when his Dad works a night shift. Jamie like to watch TV and recently has decided his favourite cereal is the one with the skateboarding panda in the advert. This advert is for chocolate chip cereal.
One evening Jamie is dropped off at his Gran’s. She is delighted to see him but is feeling very tired. She tells Jamie to choose anything he fancies from the cupboard for his tea. In the cupboard there are tins of tomato soup, granola bars, tinned tuna, wraps, the choc chip cereal and instant macaroni. Jamie chooses the cereal.
What factors could have influenced Jamie’s choices for dinner?
Ridia
Ridia is a 23-year-old woman who eats a dairy-free due to intolerance to lactose. She is on her way, in a taxi, to the airport. During her journey she passes a huge billboard with a famous super model advertising a luxury clothing brand. Whilst waiting for her flight Ridia flicks through a magazine filled with adverts of models in different clothing and shoe brands. She has time to get some lunch before her flight. At a café she sees her choices are a burger, chips and salad (£9), a Greek salad of feta cheese, olives and lettuce (£10), fruit and yogurt (£4), a Weight Watchers protein bar (£3).Ridia chooses the Weight Watchers bar.
What factors could have influenced Ridia’s choice?
