Cycle-Menu

1. Cycle Menu
Preparing 10 days cycle menu for regular diet based on 2000 calorie.


The cycle menu provides three meals and appropriate snacks every day for a
nutritionally, balanced, and varietal diet.
Factors affecting menu planning:
1. Clientele: the food items are selected in a manner to prevent any conflicts with
different religions (e.g. pork and alcohol). We take cultural preferences and
traditional meals into consideration.
2. Avaliability of food: the food items are chosen according to their season
availability (e.g. cabbage, orange).
3. Avaliability of equipment and arrangement of physical facilities: the cycle
menu was planned to be produced with the available workspace and equipment
(eg. the amount of freezer and refrigerator space suitable to item used).
4. Personnel skills: the skills of cookers in Hamza Hospital affect on the food item
that we are chosen (e.g. they can make pastries and Malfoof)
5. Money budget of food: the cycle menu does not contain expensive items (e.g.
strawberry, kiwi, and sweet potato).
6. Appealing menu items:
 Color: we avoid serving foods of the same color at one meal to be good
appealing.

2.  Texture: the texture of food items are varied at one meal.
Example: Breakfast day 1: {bread (soft), hummus (smooth), and cucumber
(crispy)}.
 Temprature: the food items at one meal have various temperatures (e.g.
Mujadarah (hot), yogurt (cold)).
 Shape and form: the food items are served in different forms such as whole
pieces, squeezed, or sliced.



Sunday

Meals
Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

3. Meals
Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

4. Recipes


Meals
Tuesday

6. *Note: sometimes we have considered falafel as vegetable and other time as
protein according to food tracker composition.