What have you learnt about your eating habits?
Do you consider your diet a healthy one? Why?
Are the suggested nurtritional tools useful? How?
Why is your suggested one-dish meal healthy?

I have learnt that my eating habits are rather unhealthy because I tend to snack alot, especially to keep me awake. Furthermore, snacks are constantly within my reach, making it even more convenient to consume unhealthy snacks. I've realised that I do not take meals at regular times and instead snack alot in between and thus, have skipped my proper meals.

My meals are not balanced meal and are often short of certain nutritions. I should cut down on the amount of sodium that I consume. However it is challenging especially since my diet was during Chinese New Year and many of the Chinese New Year goodies bought from supermarkets contain alot of sodium to make it appealing to consumers. My eating habits do not contain much vitamins and minerals -- e.g. from various sources like vegetables.

My diet isn't a healthy one because it consists mostly of snacks and fried food. I tend to enjoy snacking because firstly it keeps me awake and secondly, I always have the urge to eat snacks e.g. when I'm bored or because I'm usually hungry all the time.

This project changed my opinion and attitude towards my diet. I'm aware of the fats I'm consuming every day yet I do nothing to change it. I did not realise the impact it has on me until I did this project, and researched on the amount of unhealthy substances I'm taking in with each bite of perhaps my favourite cookies. I also realised that appearing slim is not the important thing but instead, it is what goes inside our body -- the food we consume that makes a difference in our life, whether we're eating healthy or unhealthy.

In future, I attempt to change my diet progressively, perhaps starting off with eating more fruits and vegetables and slowly including brown rice into my diet to increase my intake of dietary fibres. Another way to improve my diet, is perhaps to look out for things with the healthier-choice symbol. :D I should avoid processed food if necessary (there goes my favourite cup noodles Dx) and eat more fresh food because they taste nicer and will definitely be much healthier!

The suggested nutritional tools are helpful yet tedious at times. They allowed me to be aware of the nutritions I'm consuming as well as the appropriate dietary intake I should get each day for teenagers like me. However, the nutritional tools were troublesome to enter the various food I've eaten and also, their range of food were not very wide and many of the food I've consumed could not be found inside their list. These were a few of the weaknesses of using these tools.

My suggested one-dish meal is healthy because it increases the amount of nutrients in the original dish and at the same time, decreases the unhealthy substances example fats. Most importantly, the brilliant taste of our all-time favourite, fried rice, yet has not been removed and the flavour of the egg in the rice is still wonderful.

It made me take note of the various methods possible to make food we consume in our daily lives healthier, something well within our means perhaps by just using a healthier source of oil like olive oil. This would certainly improve my future diet.

Afterall, everyone would certainly want to be healthy, because being healthy would lessen the chances of having many illnesses! (:

WE ARE WHAT WE EAT. :D