Reflective Analysis Of Family Interviewing At Temple Shalom

Description of Family Discussion: During the meal I made for my family and I, we all talked about what I had learned during the whole entire process. I explained to them why the meal I made with healthy for us and I also asked them what they thought about the meal. While explaining to them why the meal was so healthy, I told them about all the nutrients and contents in almost all of the ingredients. We ended up talking about the health benefits in the whole grain pasta I made for around 5 minutes! We compared whole grain pasta to regular pasta. We also discussed what types of foods all of the items were. My mom and my brother thought that the meal was very very good and they expressed this to me. They thought it was very tasty, yet still had …show more content…
This organization is a temple that provides Monday night dinners for up to 50 homeless people. They are offered a full meal, including a main course, up to 3 side dishes, dessert, and waters or lemonades. At Temple Shalom, I helped put the food on the plates to then be served to the homeless people. While I did get to see them, I did not get any interaction with them. This was upsetting to me and my friends, but we still felt great about what we did to help. My volunteer experience at Temple Shalom affected me and the way I think about my access to food because it made me feel super lucky for what I have. All of the monday meals are decently healthy, but not super healthy or anything. They usually consist meatloaf, mash potatoes, gravy, and green beans. While this isn't a terrible meal, it definitely is not the healthiest thing a person could eat. This made me feel very lucky for my access to healthy food and not just good tasting food. My parents shop at places like Mariano's and Whole Foods where they typically buy healthy foods of all different sorts. Since I did this edventure, it has changed the way I talk to my family about food choices and food preparation because I know express my gratitude much more. I know how lucky I am to have all of this healthy food because of this edventure so I started showing my parents a lot more thanks for it. Also, since my edventure, I have been thinking and I am definitely going to …show more content…
It was pretty tasty and super healthy! The best part of the experience for me was definitely doing the actual cooking and eating with my mom and brother. The cooking part was fun for me and I realized I actually sort of enjoy cooking. It was very satisfying to watch my food become a great healthy meal. I enjoyed eating with my family because it was nice to actually sit down with them and just eat and talk. In my house, we are all super busy and don't typically have time to sit and eat all together. Because of this, my meal that I made felt super special because we had time to talk and hear about new updates in all of our lives. The worst part of the experience for me was probably doing the grocery shopping. This was hard because I found it stressful to make sure I got all the correct ingredients especially considering there were a lot of them. I think that the pasta and drink portion of the project went super well. This is because they were obviously both healthy, but they still turned out tasty. The chicken part of my project could have gone better because while it tasted pretty good, it looked sort of gross. It looked bad because some parts of it were sort of mashed up and not very pretty looking. My meal was almost everything I wanted it to be, other than the chicken part and the fact that my dad could not attend because he was called in to the hospital for his job as a doctor. In order to make my meal even better, I could have not