30 Minute Meals

because it opened both our eyes to how the minority lives and just how grateful we both are. I feel we both walked into the soup kitchen not wanting to be there and judging the people who ate there. Those opinions changed for both of us. During their meal,…

Christmas Dinner. The dinner symbolizes my family's ethnicity that pulls our family together containing a half German, half Italian meal. For the meal, we make Chicken Parmesan and German Spaetzel. The dinner is called the Creta Christmas Dinner because of my family's half German, half Italian ethnicity which makes up my family. Another aspect of the tradition is how the meal pulls my family together. The words cast across the dinner table and the jokes and acts like slurping up a noodle through…

go home and eat lunch with their families, who also come home for lunch, and they both rest before heading back to school and work. Now back to the USA, students eat predictable, unidentifiable(Oxford Comma), and not so nutritious foods for about 30 minutes without even leaving school. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that something isn’t right here. Open campus lunch is the better option because students can rest, eat healthier food, and…

The origins of the slow cooker can be traced to 1936, when Irving Naxon applied for a patent for a slow cooker. This slow cooker would have the crock integrated into the heating element. The crock was not yet removable, but the design made it so that food could be cooked on a low temperature for a long period of time. Naxon received the patent in 1940 and brought the product to market in the 1950s as the Naxon Beanery, meant to be able to cook beans for a long period of time. In the 1970s,…

with pride for my country and lifestyle. As we ate I put all my concentration on my friends who dined with me rather than my surroundings. Little did I know that there were three Caucasian couples also dinning together near us. Towards the end of our meal, things began to die down and I noticed the couples glaring at us strangely. I was a bit frightened, but not enough to tell anyone. When we were all finished eating…

Lunch is an important meal of the day and it is eaten at school. It boosts our metabolism and gives us energy for the rest of the day. But it's probably one of the biggest problems at our school. Students are advised to eat healthy but we can't always do that with the choices that are provided in schools. Nutrition is important it helps our bodies and brains grow and develop into the way that they are supposed to. Schools claim that they offer the right nutrients in foods. In this article a…

My survivor story Did you know that we are all survivors, it may not seem like it but we are. It may not be as severe as being stranded in the woods for years but as simple as surviving one day to the next day. It could even be surviving a day in my house. Some of the challenges I face on a daily basis are fighting with my brother, cooking, school and doing chores. In my house my brother and I fight a lot. Sometimes it is just playing but it always turns into a big fight. My brother and I are…

Francisco Food Bank helps provide healthy meals to families all over San Francisco and Marin through 246 weekly farmer’s market-style pantries. The food bank gets an enormous amount of volunteers every day of the week that last year volunteers help provide 146,000 hours of help – equivalent to 70 full time staff. The impact that this creates to the services the food bank provides are 47 million pounds of food which makes it possible to provide 100,00 meals each and every day, 30,000 families…

In today's American public schools, there has been several individuals that have complained about school`s lunch food and the impact it has on students. Students who eat school lunch food everyday can be in a way unhealthy and sometimes undesirable. Eating school lunch food has several effects to students` physical state, mental state and the ability to grasp new concepts. To begin,the new school lunch food was proposed by the first lady of the U.S Michelle Obama. She strongly believed that a…

My experiences volunteering for Food Recovery Network and the Knox Farm have been quite transformative. I never would have thought that I would have my quench for volunteering come from taking School and Society. Initially, I wasn’t completely sure about whether or not I would enjoy the experiences, but I ended up getting so much out of all the experiences. When it came to the first couple weeks volunteering for Food Recovery Network, I ended up falling in love with the concept of donating food…