1. Product Work Log
Name______Jasmine___Fahrnbauer_____________________________ Date
Product ________Family Cookbook____________________________________________________
Date/Time: Activity: Comment/Suggestions:
10/5/2011 Met with Ms. Carnes, my project
1:00-1:30 facilitator.
Commentary:
She was my Nutrition and Wellness
teacher at the beginning of the year. I
thought she would have some good
insight on how to
incorporatenutritional ideas to include
in my family cookbook. I told her
about my product and my plan to
create it. She gave me times I could
come and meet with her. We took my
picture and she filled out the project
facilitator form.
10/9/2011
Activity:
3:00-3:30
Called my grandmother
Commentary:
I told her about my project. She was
thrilled with my idea.I asked her when
a goodtime would be to come over and
get her recipes.
2. 10/19/2011 Activity:
1:00-1:30 Went over to my grandma’s house
Commentary:
She pulled out the cookbooks and we
started going though them. She
informed me of all the recipes that she
wanted in the cookbook. She agreed to
teach me how to make all her recipes.
She let me bring home the copies of the
recipes to type up. She also told me she
wanted to include my moms and aunts
recipes as well.
Activity:
10/22/2011
Met with Ms. Carnes
1:00-1:30
Commentary:
Discussed steps on how to create the
cookbook. She showed me examples of
cookbooks she had and what kind I
should make.
Activity:
10/26/2011 Met with Mrs. Carnes
1:00-1:30
Commentary:
She told me some ideas on how to
create the outline and told me to
contact my aunts to get recipes and
bring her my rough draft of the
cookbook.
Activity:
10/27/2011 Called my Aunt Donna, Aunt Becky,
1:00-1:30 Aunt Shelly.
Commentary:
I informed them of my project idea, set
up a day for them to come over, and
asked them to come and bring recipes if
3. they had any.
Activity:
11/5/2011 My auntscame over
5:00-7:00
Commentary:
We discussed what recipes they
wanted in it. They talked while I wrote
down the recipes. They gave me the
idea to make it pocket size because
they said it would be more useful if it
was easier to carry around.Since we
didn’t have enough recipes, I asked
them to email me some more when they
had the time.
Activity:
Emailed aunts
11/6/2011
12:00-12:30
Commentary:
I needed more recipes for the cookbook
so I emailed my aunts and asked them
to keep sending me more until I reached
over 40
Activity:
Talked with my mom about project
11/11/2011
1:00-1:30 Commentary:
Sat down with my mom and asked for
all her recipes that she wanted to
include in my book. She gave me a lot
more which helped me reach over my
goal of 40
4. Activity:
Began putting the cookbook together
11/13/2011
4:00-5:30 Commentary:
Finished collecting all my recipes from
my aunts, mom and grandma. I laid
out the recipe order, and typed the
introduction, and contents.
Activity:
Typed up the recipes
11/16/2011
Commentary:
5:00-7:30
Began typing all the recipes on
Microsoft.I had to be consistent with
11/ 17/2011
my recipes and make sure all the
10:30-11:00
recipes coordinated with each other,
6:30-9:00
and Itweakthe ones that didn’t.This
step took the longest.
Activity:
Worked on editing the book
11/18/2011 Commentary:
7:00-10:30 It was very time consuming to go
through and make it look professional
11/20/2011 and nice. I typed up about 55 pages on
8:00-11:00 Microsoft Word. I checked for spelling
mistakes, capitalization errors,
punctuation, etc.
Activity:
Learned to cook Thanksgiving recipes
11/22/2011 Commentary:
1:00-5:30 On Thanksgiving Day, my whole
family came over. This was the first
day I was able to cook in the kitchen
with my aunts, grandmother, and
mom. I mainly watched them bake and
helped cook the sugar cookies,
5. cranberry salad, and brownies
Activity:
Coordinated with my grandma to find
times to come over
12/1/2011
1:00-1:30 Commentary:
This process was a little frustrating
just because my grandma isn’t easy to
get in contact with. She rarely uses her
phone and checks her email. However,
she finally responded and I set up
another day for her to come over.
Activity:
Went to the grocery store
Commentary:
12/13/2011 Bought all the ingredients needed to
6:00-6:30 cook potato pancakes and regular
pancakes. Pretty difficult to find the
exact brand of flour needed.
Activity:
Grandma came over and taught me
how to cook potato pancakes, and
sugar pancakes.
12/15/2011
5:00-6:30 Commentary:
This was one of the easiest recipes in
the cookbook. So I decided to learn this
one first. This was very fun, and great
way to spend time with my
grandmother. She taught me tricks
about how you an substitutean egg for
a banana or yogurt
6. Activity:
Practiced cooking pancake recipe for
my boyfriend and brother on my own
12/17/2011 Commentary:
11:00-11:30 After making the pancakes, my brother
told me how good they were. This gave
me confidence to try more recipes.
Although it was easy to make, I was
proud of the small steps I was making
to become a better cook.
Activity:
Met with Ms. Carnes
Commentary:
Showed her the rough draft of my
1/21/2012
cookbook. Had her look over it. She
1:00-1:30
told me to fix the font and make the
margins a little bit smaller. She also
found some spelling and capitalization
errors that I overlooked.
Activity:
Edited my cookbook
Commentary:
Went back and edited my cookbook
and fixed the errors that Mrs. Carnes
1/22/2012 found.
3:00-4:00
7. Activity:
Met with Mrs. Carnes
Commentary:
She looked over my final rough draft
1/23/2012 before I went to go get it printed. She
1:00-2:00 gave me advice to get it printed at Fed
Ex Express.
Activity:
Printed book out
Commentary:
Went to Fed Ex Express three times this
day. They kept messing up the printing
2/1/2011
process do to computer issues. I would
1:00-1:30
find the errors after I got home.
3:00-4:00
However, finally I was able to get it
all printed and bonded neatly and
professionally.
Activity:
Grandma came over again and taught
me how to cook sweet potato
casserole, pork chops, and her apple
pie.
3/2/2012 Commentary:
1:00-1:30 This was one of the best learning
experiences for me. I was able to do the
majority of the work only with a little
assistance from my grandmother, and
the recipes turned out great!
8. Activity:
Made mom’s guacamole
Commentary:
Using cookbook, I created my mom’s
famous guacamole dip for my sister
3/21/2012 and her friend for a late night snack.
11:00-11:30
Activity:
Grandmother came over
Commentary:
She taught me how to cook the
Marinated Salad using the recipe from
the cookbook.
3/27/2012
12:00-2:00
Activity:
Made dinner for my family
Commentary:
Using my cookbook without
assistance, I cooked fried rice for my
family since it was one of my favorite
4/7/2012 meals. I also made my aunts broccoli
6:00-7:00 salad and my mom’s cheesecake. This
turned out to be a huge success and the
food tasted great!
Made final copies of my cookbook and
showed them to Ms. Carnes and she
was very impressed!
4/7/2012
2:30-3:30
