Prerequisite: NONE    Grade: 9-10-11-12    Credit: One semester, one (1) credit   

Description:

Enables students to realize the components and lifelong benefits of sound nutrition and wellness practices and empowers them to apply these principles in their everyday lives. A project-based approach that utilized higher order thinking, communication, leadership, and managements processes is recommended in order to integrate suggested topics into the study of family issues.

Topics:

Includes the impact of daily nutrition and wellness, practices on long-term health and wellness; physical, social, and psychological aspects of healthy nutrition and wellness choices; planning for wellness and fitness; selection and preparation of nutritious meals and snacks based on USDA Dietary Guidelines including the Food Guide Pyramid; safety,  sanitation, storage, and recycling processes and issues associated with nutrition and wellness; impacts of science and technology on nutrition and wellness issues; and nutrition and wellness career paths.

Extras:

Laboratory experience emphasizing both nutrition and wellness practices. A required component for this class.

 

 

 

Cinnamon Swirl Biscuits

1/2 cup shortening

3/4 cups milk

2 cups flour

1- T sugar

1 t. Salt

Filling

2T marg.

2 T. Cinnamon and sugar mixture

 

 

1. Heat oven to 450 degrees

2. Make dish water

3. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in large mixing bowl

4.cut in shortening with pastry blender until mixture in pea size.

5.stir in milk with a fork.

6. stir mixture until dough leaves the side of the bowl

7. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface and knead ten times.

8. Roll out with rolling pen to a rectangle shape and 1/2 inch thick

9. Add marg. using a pastry brush

10. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixture

11. Roll up into a jelly shape.

12. Cut with strings 1 1/2 in thick.

13. Place on ungreased cookie sheet about 1 in apart.

14. Bake until golden brown. 8-10 mins

15. Brush with melted marg. and remove from cookie sheet.

 

 

Potato Wedges

4 potatoes

2 T vegetable oil

1 t garlic or red pepper

Dash of black pepper

1. wash and cut potatoes in to wedges

2. mix oil and seasoning together in a mixing bowl.

3. Coat wedges in oil mixture and place white side of the potato down on a cooking sheet.

4. Bake at 450 degrees for 15 mins

5. Take out of oven and turn over

6. Bake 15 more mins

 

 

Cheddar Cheese Biscuits

2 cups Bisquick

1/2 cup cheddar cheese

2/3 cup milk

Mix the above together in a large mixing bowl.  Drop by spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake for 8-10 mins.  In a 450-degree oven.  Brush garlic butter over warm biscuits. Enjoy!

 

Butter mixture:

2T butter

1/8 t. garlic