Food Habits
Food Habits Assignment
The aim of this essay is to try and explain my food choices through three unique surveys that I have filled in, these being “Food and diet questionnaire”, “24hour recall questionnaire and a food variety survey”. These surveys will be affected by personal background which includes the following details:
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Nationality: Australian
Postcode: 3125
Living arrangements: Share house with 3 housemates
Religion: Christian
Study Commitments: Full time university student
Cultural group: Anglo-Australian
Language spoken at home: English
Through these details I am going to explain why my own personal eating habits occur and ways I can work to improve them.
1/ I do my own shopping and cook my own meals and so I am able to eat the foods that I enjoy and avoid foods which I do not. This would change if I did not do my own shopping or cook my own meals and would force me to eat things that I may not like or things that I would not make for myself as I only cook for one person and only make a small quantity of food which some meals do not allow for. Also due to being a university student I only have limited amount of money to spend on foods and this limits my variety of foods which I buy and eat. This could change if I was not making my own meals because not only could they have a different variety of foods that they enjoy but may also have a larger budget to spend on their food which means they could buy things that because I only have a small budget cannot afford to buy for myself.
2/ If the amount of money I had to spend on food each week doubled this would affect the foods I eat because it would allow me to eat foods which were more expensive to buy or of a higher quality and could not otherwise enjoy without the extra money. This would mean I would be indulging in a larger variety of foods. It would also allow me to eat out at restaurants more frequently and spend more money one things such as alcohol which without I
The aim of this essay is to try and explain my food choices through three unique surveys that I have filled in, these being “Food and diet questionnaire”, “24hour recall questionnaire and a food variety survey”. These surveys will be affected by personal background which includes the following details:
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Nationality: Australian
Postcode: 3125
Living arrangements: Share house with 3 housemates
Religion: Christian
Study Commitments: Full time university student
Cultural group: Anglo-Australian
Language spoken at home: English
Through these details I am going to explain why my own personal eating habits occur and ways I can work to improve them.
1/ I do my own shopping and cook my own meals and so I am able to eat the foods that I enjoy and avoid foods which I do not. This would change if I did not do my own shopping or cook my own meals and would force me to eat things that I may not like or things that I would not make for myself as I only cook for one person and only make a small quantity of food which some meals do not allow for. Also due to being a university student I only have limited amount of money to spend on foods and this limits my variety of foods which I buy and eat. This could change if I was not making my own meals because not only could they have a different variety of foods that they enjoy but may also have a larger budget to spend on their food which means they could buy things that because I only have a small budget cannot afford to buy for myself.
2/ If the amount of money I had to spend on food each week doubled this would affect the foods I eat because it would allow me to eat foods which were more expensive to buy or of a higher quality and could not otherwise enjoy without the extra money. This would mean I would be indulging in a larger variety of foods. It would also allow me to eat out at restaurants more frequently and spend more money one things such as alcohol which without I
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