Hunger Games 2014

Culinary Food Share competition to help stop hunger in our community

Pacifica High School Chemistry Club 2013 – Food Chemistry Month

This project came from the creative minds of

students in the chemistry club when we were studying vitamins and minerals. We read the ACS article, “The Big Reveal – What’s Behind Nutritional Labels” as part of this unit. The students really wanted to do something for the community to help people know that they can eat healthy even if they are on a food stamp budget.

Pacifica High SchoolACS Chemistry Club

Student Prompt What challenges does our community face in terms

of eating healthy at the poverty line? Some student Responses

No time to make food No kitchen to make food in (live in a garage) Do not know how to use the food they are given from

the food pantry (People return peanut butter; bok choy) Not educated (Do not know how to cook) Many of our parents work and our high school students

are the ones cooking for their siblings No money

Cheap food is unhealthy food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj-09p3CY

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Feed America – Feed Hope

Ventura County Food Insecurity

In our county, almost 1 in 4 children are food insecure.

Food banks in Ventura County

There are many food banks and community groups supplying food to the hungry.

Latino Hunger Facts

95% of our school is from a Hispanic background Latino households are more than twice as likely to

be food insecure as non-Hispanic households. Nearly 1 in 3 (29%) of Hispanic children in the U.S.

live in families served by the Feeding America network.

Hispanic adults and children are a greater risk of obesity and diabetes than other groups.

Among children born in 2000, Hispanic boys have a 45.4% lifetime risk of developing diabetes and Hispanic girls have a 52.5 % lifetime risk.

To help raise awareness of the challenges that our community faces in regards to hunger and

nutrition

Our Project

Our challenge is to give these families nutritious meal ideas using the food they receive living on a food pantry and food stamp budget.

Each group will be graded on 4 criteria:

Recipe development Ease of reproduction Utilization of various products

USDA “food plate” guidelines Does it follow the USDA ratios for a balanced and

nutritious meal Cooking Procedure

Taste/flavor Appearance Creativity

Nutritional Analysis: Vitamins and minerals

The recipes developed by our students are

going to be distributed during our canned food drive.

The recipes will be put on our school website for students to access

Food share is working on a food truck that will take these recipes into our community and students from this project will be selected to cook for their community in the truck.

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