Accomplishments:

• Compiled individual brainstormed recipes and determined common themes
• Use standard costing format to accurately cost 40 recipes for Vancouver region

How we achieved them:

• Collectively shared researched recipe ideas, and chose the most suitable recipes that coincided with our goals and objectives
• Continued calling
• Used the data that has been gathered from regions across British Columbia (Vancouver Island, Northern B.C. and the city of Vancouver) to determine the costs per serving of individual ingredients within recipes

WEEK 7 (Nov. 4th- 11th)

Objectives:

• Review costs of recipes, and determine whether or not they fall within our budget of 65 cents per meal

• Send price list to Robin and receive feedback
• Begin working on meal plan layout for the finalized 40 grab and go and sit down recipes
• Consider adding in educational and themed components to our recipes

How to Achieve:

• Brainstorm ideas individually
• Come together as a group with our ideas and put them together
• Send formatted recipes to Robin

WEEK 8 (Nov. 11th-18th)

Objectives:

• Send formatted recipes to Robin
• Start working on a feedback form

How to Achieve:

• Reflect on our initial goals and aim of the project to make sure we accomplished everything we set out to do.
• Come up with what we would like to get feedback on and put it into a document.

WEEK 9 (Nov. 18th- 25th)

Objectives:

• Launch the recipes and have them available on the BCC website.
• Tie up any loose ends of the project, based on feedback from Robin

How to Achieve:

• Send Robin our finalized meal plans that are ready to be uploaded to the website.

Moment of Significance

What?

During this workshop, we were able to reflect on our significant moments during our project and learn from them. As a group, we experienced many ups and downs during our project but we were able to simplify our objectives.

For example, our group first reflected on our first meeting with our community partner Robin Ryan. We were all feeling very happy and setting very high expectations for ourselves with this project. Our team met after our meeting with Robin to discuss what we wanted to achieve at the end of our project. Shortly after, we gave our proposal presentation to the class. During our presentation we were feeling very optimistic about our project goals; however, after receiving some feedback we realized we had set our expectations for what we wanted to achieve a little too high. We then decided to narrow down our project. As a group, we decided to focus solely on creating cost-effective and nutritious recipes; rather than also focusing on an educational aspect. After reorganizing our goals, our team actually felt relieved as our expectations were not as high, and the goals we set out to achieve seemed more realistic. Our team then made a trip to see a school breakfast program in action. After seeing how big of a difference breakfast programs make in the students’ lives, our team was feeling very grateful to be able to contribute to BCC. At our next group meeting, our team was in the midst of finalizing 15 recipe ideas. We then received an email from Robin stating we were suppose to have 40 finalized recipe. After receiving this email, our team again felt discouraged and also stressed. To develop and cost 40 recipes for 10 regions is a huge task. But after talking it through our group decided it would be manageable. The team then began collecting costs. We originally thought this was going to be an easy task; however, a lot of the store owner would tell us there were unable to provide us with that information. Or some were just too busy. Again, we were and still are feeling discouraged from this. Currently, we have received costs from 3 of the 10 regions, and are still waiting to hear back from the others who told us they would email us the costs.

So What?

Through this experience we learned how the different moments shaped our project goals and objectives in a positive and beneficial way. The challenges we faced at first seemed difficult, but our team was able to work together to get through them.

A lot of this issues created extra stress; however, this issues are what made us reestablish our goals. So in the long run they actually ended up making our project seems less daunting and stressful. Our goals now seem more realistic and manageable.

Now What?

Because we have overcome the challenges we have faced so far quite easily, our group feels  confident that if faced with another obstacle we will be able to deal with it appropriately and not let it get us off track. The challenges we have overcome so far have helped shape our team goals and objectives and as a result has made them much more realistic given the short time frame that we have to complete this project.