a. 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 have learnt many different things about the history of High Tea and information relating to my topic, Type 2 Diabetes. While writing and researching this assignment I learnt about the the disease Type 2 diabetes in general, the effects it can have on the person, how their diet changes, things that can happen to them and when you are diagnosed with the disease. I have also learnt that your diet has a huge impact on your lifestyle and that what you eat as a young child can determine whether you suffer with a disease or not in your later life. The skills I utilised during this assignment included, the way to present a High Tea, what to serve whilst having a High Tea and some background knowledge on the subject. The skills I developed from this task would include during the lesson we had to cook was how to place the filo pastry into the muffin pan correctly to make sure it looked nice. I think we had great success in our food choices as they all turned out good and also tasted really nice. I would have to say my time management for this task wasn't as good as I hoped as I didn't start the task as early as I should of so I was a bit rushed when I started to realise the due date was coming up sooner than I thought. Also during the prac lesson my group started right on time although we didn't finish at the end of the lesson as we were still going into lunchtime. This was not the best way to manage our time as I would have liked to finish when the lesson ended instead of rushing in the final minutes of the lesson. My ideas for improvement would have to include better time management for both the research and practical sections and also work better as a team as earlier on my group had a few disagreements. Another idea for improvement would be for me and Sophie to maybe partner up with another pair as a lot of the time we couldn't rely on Taylah and Jazmin as they were away a lot and this put me and Sophie at a disadvantage as we had to keep changing our recipes and ideas to suit the whole group.
