The second step of the website allows you to assign how many people you are feeding that week. This may vary for some families but normally this would stay the same for many. This needs to be correct so the website can calculate the portion sizes per person, depending on the amount of people you are feeding that week will depend on how much food you’ll need to buy.
First Step
The way that my website works is it searches for all the mainstream supermarkets for example, Tesco, Morrison’s, Sainsbury’s, Marks and Spencer’s, Aldi and Lidl. It allows you to refine the shops you want to shop at and also lets you to put in a mile radius of where you are willing to travel. This is important to many parents doing their weekly shop, as they may only want to shop in a selected few shops, as it can cost more travelling to a range of different shops.
My Idea To Help Solve Child Obesity
Therefore working on this idea that parents may feel they don’t have the right skills or find it difficult to find the best value fresh food available to them. I came up with one solution, a website, which does all of this for them. This works in 5 easy steps:
- First step: enter your postcode and the radius you are willing to travel to shops, Refine any shops you do not want to include
- How many people are you feeding
- Your budget for the week
- Select your favourite meals, for example 7 meals for each night of the week.
- The final step allows you to see the schedule and recipes for each of your meals
Dietary Research – Food Waste and Conclusion
Likewise money for fresh ingredients could also be a factor affecting this, many people don’t like buying fresh food, as the sell by date is limited compared to frozen foods. ‘Almost 50% of the total amount of food thrown away in the UK comes from our homes. We throw away 7 million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year in the UK, and more than half of this is food and drink we could have eaten.’ (lovefoodhatewaste, 2015). Proving that we throw away to much fresh food that could be used if scheduled meals were correct.
From research I gathered it suggests that the parent is in control of their child’s weight as they are responsible for ensuring their child grows up with the correct ethics towards food. I also believe this to, I think that it is important that the parent ensures they have nurtured their child correctly so they do not fall into the vicious cycle of obesity. As the child cannot cook, does not have money to buy food, and does not yet have the knowledge of choosing what is healthy for them and what isn’t. I think it is important that as a parent they point their child in the correct direction to live a healthy happy lifestyle.
Dietary Research – 5 A Day, Is This Even Possible For Parents?
I then went on to look further into trends in the consumption of fruit and vegetables, shown in the graph below:
(Health Survey for England 2013, 2014)
Information gathered by the health survey for England in 2013 shows what percentage of men, women and children ate their 5 A DAY. Presenting in 2013 25% of men, 28% of women and the lowest of 16% of children had their 5 A DAY. This is lower than the previous years, and has declined since 2009. Also ‘in 2013 6.8% of adults and 6.7% of children included no fruit or vegetables in their diet.’ (Department of Health, 2012) Verifying that England still has a long way to go with incorporating fresh fruit and vegetables into children’s lives and also parents.