Reflections

My Eating Habits/ Healthy Diet?
After this Performance Task, I realised that my eating habits are not very healthy after all. For all the 3 days, my sodium, cholesterol and fat intake were all more than the recommended amount. Also, my calcium intake was above the recommended amount for the 2nd and 3rd day. My energy intake was also relatively high and sometimes, was above the recommended intake. Hence, I feel that my diet is fairly unhealthy and I have to learn to watch what I eat and control my diet, like taking less sauces and oil and less seafood.

Nutritional Tools
The nutritional tools suggested on the Health Promotion Board website was really useful to me in calculating my daily components of nutrients in my meals and realising what unhealthy foods I should cut down and what healthy foods I should consume more. However, there were some constraints in the Food-Intake Asessment as some of the foods that I ate was not listed under the search. Hence, I chose foods that sounded somewhat similar to my original foods. However, I realised that the Food-Intake Assessment would not be that successful after all if everyone chose foods that are close to their original ones but are not the exact ones, so I suggest that the Search Engine should have a wider variety of foods in the list for more accurate searches. All in all, I am glad that I learnt more about these nutritional tools like the Healthy Diet Pyramid, Recommended Daily Allowance and the Food-Intake Assessment from this PT so I can apply these tools to monitor my diet in future too.

One-Dish Meal
My one-dish meal is healthy as it contains porridge/rice which is a carbohydrate that will provide me with energy and grilled chicken that will provide me with protein and yet is not too oily. Furthermore, I have stir-fried cabbage, carrots and long beans and also mushrooms, which replace the previous preserved vegetables. These are full of dietary fibre and will increase my dietary fibre intake and lower my cholesterol intake due to the absence of the preserved vegetables. Hence, my one-dish meal is healthy as it is a well-balanced meal containing carbohydrates, dietary fibres, vitamins and lowered cholesterol.