Lesson 5

We can see that the frozen pastry contains a lot of fat, sugar, and sodium, as well as additives. It is clearly very detrimental to our health as these things like salt, sugar, and fat are found on the top of the healthy food pyramid. 

I would use either asparagus and spinach or pumpkin in my quiche.

Lesson 4

I learn that we could use our knowledge of flour mixtures to make lasagna sheets. Also, that kneading is a process that takes a long time and you cannot add too much flour.

To make the lasagna healthier, we can use part-skim cheeses instead of full-fat cheeses to reduce calories and saturated fat. We can also opt for a vegetarian lasagna, and use spinach. In addition, we can make our own tomato sauce from scratch. 

Lesson 3

The cupcakes that Mrs Abbas made had 25 grams less butter. Hence, they were greater in volume and drier than our cupcakes. Our cupcakes were fluffier and softer. This difference arose as Mrs Abbas’s healthier cupcakes had less fat, and hence the taste, volume, and density was affected. Both were generally the same and delicious, and I think that I would like to use less butter the next time I make cupcakes as butter contains fat which is unhealthy (we can see that it is at the top of the healthy food pyramid). Also, I would add less cocoa as the taste was too strong and neither my partner nor myself really liked it.

In order to make it more healthy, we can reduce the amount of butter and sugar added. We can also not put in the chocolate rice flakes, and include fruits like bananas or nuts instead. We can also use less eggs if possible. In the right picture above, we can see the cross-sections of our cupcake on the right and Mrs Abbas's on the left. Also, in the left picture above, we put the two halves of the cupcakes together for comparison. The taller half is Mrs Abbas's.

The cookies were also really crunchy but soft and the colours were not too brown. However, I think I added too much vanilla essence, hence the flavour was too strong.