Paulina Contreras

Cunningham

American literature

15 March 2019

A Drive On The Healthy Side

The topic of our capstone was to cook recipes healthy foods for people who have health

issues. We chose this topic because our family comes from a long history of diabetics as do most

hispanic families as well, so we wanted to create how to videos for those searching for such

recipes. Our interest was raising awareness for diabetic people and people with health issues by

cooking recipes. As the solution, we made more accessible videos on easy how to videos of

healthy foods for people on the web and created an instagram page. We hoped to learn that

health issues are a big deal in today’s society and also wanted to see what ingredients and steps it

took to create a healthy recipe. The steps we took were: we all decided on creating awareness for

theses health issues by creating exposure for these healthy recipes, we learned about fast foods

and why they are unhealthy, researched what types of foods are healthy specifically meats and

vegetables, incorporating healthy alternatives into the recipes, and we all decided on creating a

social media page on platform. Some obstacles we encountered were: time management because

we did not have a consistent schedule, it was very difficult to incorporate some healthy

ingredients in place of others, and editing took up a lot of time. The steps we took were:

researching about healthy foods and what our body needs, what types of recipes are healthy,

what ingredients can be swapped for others to make the dish healthier, recorded the cooking

processes to create how-to videos, we created an instagram for the project and to post our videos
to gain exposure and get our ideas out there. We will be showing some how to videos we posted,

part of our instagram page as evidence. We feel like we accomplished putting out a great idea on

the web because health is a big part of society, we succeeded in making an instagram page to put

out the recipes, and brought some ideas to others by doing these things. We learned that it really

takes some research to find out what nutritional facts you need to know about to combat health

issues due to unhealthy food, and that it is very common in the united states. I learned that I am

very determined and consistent in effort of completing the process, and I never gave up even

when I got frustrated. I am very proud of how the videos turned out, the editing was great and the

dishes came out really awesome and also taking a step into the public to put out the cause

regarding something relevant which is health issues. I wish we had more ways of getting our

point out there regarding social media and I feel like with time it will grow. We were able to get

others to be interested and even start eating healthier as of when we started our project. People

were intrigued and started to cook healthier. I feel like we would take this further even start a

cooking channel strictly regarding healthy foods. If I could give any advice to an incoming

senior is to plan out prior to starting, start as soon as possible, and to utilize their time as much as

possible.