This class will be a fun, interactive life skills course designed to allow students to work with a teacher to learn how to prepare a meal within a working budget. After being familiarized with basic food groups and receiving a spending allotment, students will then be guided in steps to making a needed shopping list for their grocery store venture. The course will aim to enlighten the students’ awareness of nutritional contents of their meal plan items (by checking food labels) but equally important will place emphasis on student counting the cost of their meal items to prevent overspending. The course will be conducted in (2) classes.
First class- Learners will be educated on such topics as basic food groups and estimated cost of various food items. This enlightenment will help learners to formulate ideas of what food items to add to their meal project. Teacher will share slide presentations of examples of various meal ideas and provide estimate costs for those example food items. Learners will then be equipped to utilize simple mathematical skills (as directed by teacher) to return to second class with their budgeted meal items.
Second class-   Learners will return to class with completed projects of meals they have compiled. They will be required to give breakdown of estimated cost for all food items as well as a food content of these food items (which can be derived from food package labels)