Nutrition and Menu Planning for Different Stages of Life

DIET & NUTRITION

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................1
P 3 Design and plan healthy, enjoyable meals for a range of situations, health
initiatives and customers..........................................................................................................1
P 4 Evaluate how nutritional values are relevant to a range of businesses e.g.
schools, hospitals, catering, hotels, restaurants and fast food outlets.............................2
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................3
P 5 Discuss how to prevent the onset of nutritional deficiency disorders such as
anaemia and osteoporosis in menu planning.......................................................................3
P 6 Explore the changing nutritional requirements throughout the key stages of life
and the implications this has for menu planning..................................................................4
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................5
REREFENCES..............................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Nutrition is about eating correct, balanced and healthy diet for proper physical
and mental growth of body (Lean and Combet, 2016). It is important to maintain
nutritional value within body as per the requirement of body. This assignment will focus
upon Homewood Lodge which is a luxury retreat who provide healthy diet plans to elder
people for different health conditions. This assignment will discuss nutritional knowledge
impact in hospitality management and implications of nutrition in relation to specific
diseases, digestive disorders and key stages of life.
LO 2
P 3 Design and plan healthy, enjoyable meals for a range of situations, health initiatives
and customers
Non-veg meal plan
Meal plan should be healthy as well as tasty for elder customers, school children,
adults etc. While planning and designing non-veg meal plan it is important to
understand which non- veg food has more saturated fat, unsaturated and trans- fat. So
that meal can be planned accordingly. This is because saturated fat is not good for
health. Food products like fish, red meat is high in protein as well as in saturated fat
(Costa and et. al., 2019). Only fishes like salmon are good or health. Other than this,
eggs are also healthy for body as they are also high in protein. Chicken is low in
saturated fat and high in protein. It is said that in non- veg chicken is one of the best
sources of health food item that should be included in non- veg meal plan.
 Breakfast: One of the best options to be included in non- veg breakfast meal plan is
different variety of eggs like scrambled eggs, omelette.
 Lunch: there are wide variety of healthy options that can be included in lunch meal
like- chicken sandwich or chicken salad. Or sea food, turkey or roasted chicken.
 Dinner: Baked salmon fish or grilled chicken or black bean chicken burger.
 Beverages: chicken soup with low salt
Plan meal plan
There are wide variety of options that one can have in vegetarian meal.
Vegetarian meal is always good and healthy as well as important for body as it helps in
providing maximum amount of nutrients to body (Grosso and et. al., 2017). As
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