Ethan Dandrea

American Football Meal Plan

Global Context - Fairness and Development

Goal - To create an affordable 7-day diet plan for any teenagers that are interested in getting into shape for American Football.

Introduction

My personal project is a book focusing on a meal plan I have created for teenagers playing American-Football. The meal plan was constructed by me using an assortment of recipes I found online from a number of different sources. All of the meals put into the plan are there for a reason as they fit the purpose of the meal plan.

I choose this global context as my original goal was to create a meal plan that was more affordable to the average household than others often used. I also wanted to development a meal plan that incorporated plant based meals. I did this because there are a number of health benefits to plant based meals that are not normally utilized by meal plans I have seen in the past.

Process

At first I wasn’t sure exactly how I wanted to create my product, I knew I wanted to create a meal plan but I didn’t know if I wanted it to make in the form of a book, or a website. I decided to go with a book as I wanted my product to be able to be read online as well as printed out.

Incorporating plant based meals into my plan wasn’t something I decided to do from the very beginning. The idea started when my personal project tutor suggested me the documentary, “The Game Changers” and I was able to learn about the benefits of plant based diets. Watching this documentary lead to me doing further research and deciding that implementing plant based meals into the diet would be beneficial to my product. On this page I have included an image of the table of contents, and the complete meal plan I have created. The meal plan is just an overview of all of the meals as the following pages go through day in detail.

Directly after the title page I included a table of contents, this was done to ensure that the reader can easily find anything they may be specifically looking for. My product includes pages explaining multiple parts of the meal plan. These pages explain things such as why plant based meals are included, and how this meal plan relates to American football. Every day of the plan includes three meals and a smoothie. The creator of the recipe as well as the ingredient list, method and nutrition are provided for every meal. Most of meals chosen are very simple, this decision was made as most high school athletes don’t have much cooking experience.

Conclusion

The product provides 5 snacks that have similar benefits to the meals in the plan. These snacks are all relatively easy to make and provide good nutritional value. There are a variety of snacks out there that work with this meal plan very well, I decided to choose 5 that follow the products goal of providing affordable options. At the end of the book there is a bibliography which includes a citation for every meal, snack and smoothie provided in the book. The bibliography is organized in a way that allows the reader to easily find the origin of any of the meals in the book they may enjoy.