Reflection

What have you learnt from your eating habits?
I learnt that I did not have good eating habits as I tended to eat very little in the morning and afternoon and eat a lot during dinner. This resulted in me not receiving enough food for energy during school hours but being kept awake during the night as I had too much energy to burn off. Also, when I calculated my RDDA, I was shocked that I was actually eating more than was needed. In fact, I was eating double my RDDA. I learnt that I must change my eating habits as they were unhealthy.

Do you consider your diet a healthy one? Why?
No, as I do not eat enough during the morning and afternoon and too much during dinner time. I feel that I should change it to eat more calcium-related products and such. However, I feel that I have a large variety in my diet and I eat a lot of vegetables, which is healthy. Thus, I should tweak my diet such that my RDDA is regulated, but keep the variety of the diet and the large amount of vegetables that I eat.

Also, one of my CCAs is NCC (Air), which requires me to train hard for about four hours a week, so my metabolic rate can be quite high, which does not make my diet as unhealthy as it would be if I did not excercise.

Are the suggested nutritional tools useful? How?
They are useful, however, they were confusing as for example, I did not know how much exactly was one serving was. I was unsure of how to judge the amount that I ate. Also, because I traced my diet a few weeks before, I did not remember as well exactly how much I ate. However, I thought that they were quite good in that they gave a lot of variety and choices in giving us what we ate in our diet.

Why is your suggested one-dish meal healthy?
It is healthy as it uses brown rice. In my diet, I eat a lot of white rice, but there is a more healthy alternative to it, namely brown rice. In this Performance Task, I decided to use brown rice as white rice should be switched to brown rice if I want to have a healthier diet. Furthermore, it uses vegetables and not meat, so some of diet problems are reduced if I eat this meal.