Michelle Wilkins Unit 6 Project SC 300 December 19, 2011

This is a very interesting paper to write as I am not a very regular eater, which I know is bad for me but I chose a lunch that I made for the guys yesterday and the breakfast that I had this morning. List all of the components of two of your meals. Meal 1 Lunch: We had roast, potatoes, carrots, and rolls. And we had Busch light for drinks Meal 2 Breakfast: We had scrambled cheesy eggs, sausage patties, gala apples, orange juice. A. Where did each component of your meal originate? List the country that each part of your meal came from. (i.e., Did that glass of red wine come from Australia? Is the cheese from France?) All of my food came from the United States for over different regions. The roast actually came from one of our own cows that we had on the farm. The potatoes came from Idaho, the carrots came from Colorado, the rolls were made from a local bakery, and of course the Busch light was made in St. Louis. Our breakfast meal were from; eggs are from Iowa, the sausage patties from somewhere in the United States, apples came from Washington and the orange juice came from Florida. B. List where you purchased the products from. I do most of my grocery shopping at our local Wal-mart about 10 miles away from our house. The exception is the beef that we get from our own cows that we take in to have processed from out local meat lockers. C. Consider the chain of events that took the product to get from the farm/laboratory to your table. The chain for us to get our beef is for us to take the meat to the processor, they process it, they give a call when it’s done, and we go get it. And then we fill up our freezers. It’s funny because this week I have to go to the butcher and get the meat that we have there. The rolls I get from a