Evaluation von Ernährungssituation und Kochkenntnissen sozial benachteiligter Familien Entwicklung eines zielgruppenspezifischen Rezeptkatalogs

Abstract

Ausgehend von der Armutssituation in Deutschland, mit der besonderen Brisanz des Themas der sozial benachteiligten Zielgruppen, ist es das Ziel dieser Arbeit die Ernährungssituationen sowie die Kochkenntnisse sozial benachteiligter Familien zu ermitteln und aufzuzeigen. Zusätzlich wird ein Rezeptkatalog zur Hilfestellung einer gesunden und ausgewogenen Ernährung, mit darin enthaltenen preiswerten Rezepten, erstellt.

Germany counts to the richest countries of the modern world. Nonetheless, approximately 11 million people presently live beneath the poverty line. Especially lone parents, children, pensioners and migrants belong to those living in poverty. Because of this situation, discussions arise now and again, whether these affected groups of people eat less healthy because of their financial situation or because of their ignorance which might lead to a wrong and unhealthy nutrition at the same time. The objective of this research is to investigate and present the nutrition situations as well as the knowledge in cooking of socially disadvantaged families. In addition a recipe catalogue, which includes a range of balanced and affordable meals and shall provide assistance in healthy eating, was created. To gain a personal involvement into the target group one took part and had been trained in a four months long cooking class which took place at the Volkshochschule Bremen. Throughout this class socially disadvantaged people learn how to cook cheap but balanced. On top of that participants widen their knowledge in healthier nutrition. To gain additional data, a survey of the people involved takes place by handing out questionnaires. Their cooking skills were then evaluated by taking a close look at the self made recipe catalogue. The analysis of the questionnaires poited out, that people coming from socially disadvantaged households eats less healthy. This presumably is based on little knowledge in healthy and balanced nutrition as well as missing cooking skills. Once the results had been compared with thematic literature, they showed a lot of parallels. My personal experience, which I gained when working with the participants, clearly shows people from this group concerned have got a need for training and advise dealing with healthy nutrition, shopping, household management and health in general.