Evaluation:

Individually: Evaluate the entire assignment in terms of what you learnt, the skills you utilized and developed, the success or not of your food choices, your time management for both practical and research sections, ideas for improvement. (600-800 words on your blog).

Throughout this assignment, I believe that I have learnt and developed a lot of useful skills. I have learnt things about cooking and research and even down to things like working with different group members. I started of working with Georgia, Taylah and Jazmin but since jazmin was away sick and taylah was away, Georgia and I were told to make 3 meals between us two on a lactose intolerant teenager. Then when they both came back we had been told to change back again to cooking for a type 2 diabetic where georgia and i made 2 meals and taylah would make 1 as jazmin was no longer participating in this assignment but she would help us cook on the day. This was a little bit of a disadvantage for Georgia and I as we had already started researching Information on a lactose intolerant teenager but we had no other choice then to change so we just started all over again on a new topic. This disadvantage was also good in a way as it made me get started on my new topic quicker as i knew that i didn't have as long to work on it. In term of what i learnt throughout this assignment, I have learnt how to cook these new recipes and i have gained more knowledge on a type 2 diabetic, lactose intolerant teenage and also all the other aspects of health i had research (such us being born with special needs compared to growing into them). Another thing i learnt was about High tea’s. I learnt what they really are and the proper way to set for one. When it came to the cooking side of the assignment, i think that my group and i did really well as working together as a team and using our time efficiently to get the work done. I was working on the banana bread, georgia was on the apple and custard tarts and taylah was cooking the rice pudding whilst jazmin was helping anyone that needed it. I was the first to get my meal in the oven so i started on washing all the dishes first. Once i had finished washing, my group was ready to start helping me dry and put away. One issue that was came across was that the custard for the tarts was not cooking as smoothly as it should so this took us a little longer than it should of which kept us over the bell the plate up our finished product. Some ideas that i could suggest for improvement for next time would be to make sure we are clear we are researching so we don't become confused and waste time on sorting it out and changing. Besides this, I think that our group worked well together in practical as we all cleaned up as we went and got the job done which left us with a good outcome. At the start of the assignment, in my research lessons i set my self some goals on what our dishes should look as an outcome at the end. I can finally put the pictures together now and say that this has been a successful assignment and i think i have put in a lot of effort to make it the best it could be! 

Here is the outcome:

As shown above, the top lone of photos is our cooking and the bottom is what i aimed for. Apart from the few changes like cutting the banana bread up and adding coconut on top, I think it turned out to be a positive result.

Here is a photo of my group and I after we had finished out practical lesson cooking, proud of our outcome:

Overall this has been an interest and fun assignment and im glad i got to work with the people i did. This assignment has taught me a lot of useful skills that will come in handy when im cooking for sure. One major thing i learnt from this assignment was to not waste time and manage it carefully.