Question

Case Study #1: Planning a Healthy Vegetarian Diet

Name: ________________________________ Please - put your name in the title of each document!

Instructions: There are 4 parts to this case study. Read through the case below and then use the suggested resources to complete all 4 parts to submit by Wednesday of week 4. Then, using any feedback or additional insight from the week, make any necessary changes and submit a second version by the end of week 4.

Post and Submit your answers to this case.

1. First, for the Week 4 Discussion: Title this file with your name and ‘Week 4 case study version one’ and post to Week 4 Discussion by Wednesday 11:59 pm CST.
2. Next, for the Week 4 Assignment: Using any feedback or additional insight you receive during the week, make changes and submit the case study as ‘Week 2 case study version two’ under the Week 4 Assignment page.

Case: Cathy is a 21-year-old, generally healthy, Caucasian female in her second year of college. She is 5’ 5” tall, moderately active, and her weight is 120 pounds. She has heard of the benefits of eating a plant-based diet and has decided to become a vegetarian. From her diet history, you learn that she has been substituting large vegetable-only salads for meat as the main course at meal times. She will drink milk and she does eat cheese. She is not opposed to eating eggs or beans but does not routinely cook them. In fact, she rarely cooks at all. She filled out the chart below with her current intake.

Part Four: Determine the recommended Healthy Vegetarian Meal Plan for Cathy & plan an example day of meals based on this. [see Table A5 (Appendix A). https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines/appendix-5/]

Record Cathy’s recommended Healthy Vegetarian Plan in the chart below.

Food Group	Recommended Servings/d *or other recommendations for intake	Comments
Vegetables
Fruits
Grains
Dairy
Protein Foods
Oils
Other

Plan a sample day of meals for Cathy based on her Healthy Vegetarian meal plan. This day of meals must fulfill the plan you reported in the chart above

[Expand/edit the chart as needed; note: you should have more than 1 food for each meal]

Meal	Food	Portion
Breakfast
Snack
Lunch
Snack
Dinner

Current Intake from Cathy’s 24-hour Recall
Food	Amount
Coffee	12 oz
Sugar	4 tsp
Bagel	½
Butter	2 tsp
Leaf greens and tomato salad	3 C
Italian Dressing	¼ C
Saltine Crackers	12
Orange	1 med
Leaf greens and tomato salad	3 C
Italian Dressing	¼ C
Bagel	1/2
Butter	2 tsp
Mixed Veg	2 C
Apple	1 med
Tea	2 C
Sugar	4 tsp

Answer 1

Cathy's recommended healthy vegetarian plan is shown in the following table,

Food group	Recommend servings	comments
Vegetables	3	supplies minerals and vitamins
Fruits	2	supplies minerals and vitamins
Grains	3 to 5	source of energy
Dairy	2	body building, tissue repair
Protein foods	5 to 6	body building, tissue repair
Oils	2	hormone and steroid synthesis
Others	Fiber (1 serving = 25g)	aids in digestion

Cathy's healthy vegetarian meat plan is given below,

Meal	Food	Portion
Breakfast	Banana Berries English muffin Honey	Half Half Half I tsp
Snack	vegetable salad Boiled egg	Lettuce, spinach 2
Lunch	sweet potato hash Veggie crumbles peppers Feta	One One Two One
Snack	Greek yoghurt Raspberries Honey Stevia	One cup Four 1 tsp 1 tsp
Dinner	fried rice Boiled eggs Peppers Onion	2 brown rice 4 2 Half