PREPARATION, PACKAGING AND MARKETING OF FOOD ITEMS 2

HOME ECONOMICS J. S. S. THREE THIRD TERM

WEEK TWO

THEME: FOOD AND NUTRITION

PREPARATION, PACKAGING AND MARKETING OF FOOD ITEMS 2

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Mention snacks and drinks that could be packaged and marketed easily
2. Prepare and serve simple snacks, meals and drinks.

CONTENT

1. Banana bread

It is a popular homemade bread for banana lovers. You can make this bread on the weekend and enjoy throughout the week with jam, honey, and other extras.

Here are the ingredients you need to make banana bread:

• Ripe bananas – 2-3 pieces
• Flour – 1 cup
• Eggs – 4 pieces
• Evaporated milk – 1-2 cups
• Butter – 0.75 cup
• Sugar – 0.25 cup
• Yeast – 0.5 teaspoon
• Baking soda – 1 teaspoon
• Salt – 0.5 teaspoon
• Nuts (cashew or ground nuts) – 0.25 cup

Enjoy the simple recipe for banana bread Nigerian snack:

• Take the eggs out of the refrigerator so that they reach the room temperature by the time you will have to add them to this recipe.
• If you have a microwave, pre-heat the milk for half a minute in it. If you don’t have this machine, pre-heat the milk on a stove.
• Carefully add yeast to your milk and mix this mixture.
• Take another bowl and put flour in it. Add baking soda, sugar, and salt and mix all these ingredients.
• You should break all the nuts into tiny pieces. Do this with a spoon or rolling pin.
• The butter needs to be melted.
• Take another bowl and peel bananas. Use a spoon or masher to mash this product inside the bowl.
• In another bowl, break the eggs and gently whisk them.
• Inside your mixture of milk plus yeast and flour, slowly pour the melted butter plus bananas. Mix everything together.
• Add all other ingredients (the dry ones) and keep mixing.
• Add the nuts and continue to mix all the products. Your dough will look nice and smooth when ready.
• You need a bread pan. Put the dough on it and decorate the top with the leftover nuts.
• Preheat your oven and bake the bread for about 60 minutes.

2. Puff Puff

Among many Nigerian snacks, puff puff is extremely popular and well known even outside the country. There are a classic version and different extras for people who like sweet, spicy food, etc.

Here are the ingredients needed for puff puff recipe:

• Flour – 1.5 cups
• Yeast – 2 teaspoon
• Nutmeg (ground) – 0.5 teaspoon
• Sugar – 0.25 cup or more (how you like it)
• Salt – a pinch
• Oil (vegetable or olive) – from 1 to 3 cups (sometimes less, sometimes more)
• Water – 1 cup

Quick recipe: how to make puff puff snacks

• Take a deep bowl and put flour along with sugar, salt, nutmeg, and yeast inside. Stir everything into a smooth mixture.
• Slowly pour in the water (make sure it is warm) and keep stirring.
• Leave your dough for about an hour. You are advised to cover the bowl with foil and set aside in a warm place.
• You will know the dough is ready when it doubles in size. Now you can fry the puff puff. So take a frying pan and add oil. There should be enough oil to fry your snacks. Turn on the fire on the stove and heat the oil.
• Make small round balls from the dough and put them to ‘swim’ in the oil. Your snack is ready when each puff puff turns into pretty golden-brown color. Make sure you flip the balls around to fry each side.
• Before eating this popular Nigerian snack, you should put puff puff balls on a paper towel to remove excess oil.

3. Pancakes with coconut taste

If you prefer snacks along with a diet, take a look at the coconut pancake recipe.

Ingredients you’ll need:

• Eggs – 3 pieces
• Coconut flour – 3 tablespoon
• Evaporated milk – 5 tablespoon
• Sugar (powdered type) – 2 teaspoon
• Coconut oil – 1 teaspoon
• Salt – a little bit (how you like it)
• Vegetable or olive oil – a little bit

How to make pancake snacks:

• Take a bowl and pour some coconut oil inside.
• Separate white from yolk in eggs and add the whites into the bowl with oil. Also, add sugar and mix it.
• Put coconut flour in this bowl, salt it and add milk. Keep stirring the mixture. The batter for your pancakes is ready.
• Put a pan on the stove (use low heat) and add some oil to keep the pancake from burning. Pour the batter using a deep spoon onto the pan and fry each pancake one by one (both sides).

4. Chin chin snacks

As we have already mentioned, Nigerians are in love with deeply fried snacks. Chin's chin is a bright example of such a meal, and it is simple to make if you follow our recipe.

Ingredients:

• Flour – 8 cup
• Evaporated milk – 3 cup
• Sugar (granulated) – 0.5 cup
• Butter or margarine – 250 grams
• Ground nutmeg – 2 teaspoon
• Egg – 2 pieces
• Olive or vegetable oil – a lot to fry chin chin
• Water – not too much

How to make chin snack:

• Get a deep bowl and put the flour inside. Add nutmeg plus sugar and start mixing.
• Put in the pieces of margarine/butter (cut it in pieces) and rub into the flour. The mixture will remind of crumbs.
• Break eggs into the mixture and keep stirring.
• Pour in the milk and keep mixing to make the dough. Set the bowl aside for 10-15 minutes.
• Put the dough on the flat surface and cut into chin pieces.
• Take a deep pan and add oil inside. Since the chin will be covered with oil, you will need enough of it. Turn on the heat and wait till oil gets hot.
• Place future chin chins into the oil and cook them until they turn a pretty brown colour. To avoid the pieces sticking to each other, stir with a spoon once in a while.
• It is better to place ready chin onto a paper towel to remove excess oil.

Each of us loves different types of snacks. If you live or travel to Nigeria, you should learn more about the most delicious and common local meals. We have created a nice compilation of the best Nigerian snacks and how to make them guides. You will love these recipes because they are simple, delicious, and extremely popular in Africa.

5.  Plantain chips

Everything you need to make this popular Nigerian snack is plantains, vegetable oil, and some salt.

Here is how you prepare your chips:

• Wash plantains. Peel them and slice into very thin circles.
• Place all the slices into the water until you finish. This way you can maintain their colour. Salt the water and stir.
• All the water has to be drained to leave plantain slices dry before cooking them.
• Add oil into a deep pan and preheat it. Place plantain slices into the hot oil and fry like this (both sides) until they turn yellow.
• Remove extra oil from your chips with the help of paper towels and enjoy the delicious snack.
• You can store your plantain chips in containers and eat between meals.

Marketing Principles

Marketing is one of the foundations of a successful business plan.

An effective marketing strategy can make the difference between a product selling or being ignored by consumers.

Four Principles of Marketing

Principle 1: Product

The product is the good or service provided to meet a specific customer’s need. All products go through a logical life cycle, and it’s important for marketers and business professionals to understand the phases a product goes through. Developing a profitable product means ensuring its high performance, as well as its value for the money. As such, it’s important that marketers have in-depth knowledge of the products they’re promoting.

Examples of a product may range from goods such as food and clothing to services like a lawn-mowing service or piano lessons.

Principle 2: Price

The price depends on several factors. Cost of production, customer demographics, product demand, brand image and history all influence a product’s price.

For example, if the cost to produce a given product is $1, the cost to market it is $1, and the cost of shipping is $1, a company would use those costs, as well as the product’s perceived value and potential target demographic, to establish a reasonable price point, while still enabling the company to make a profit.

Principle 3: Place

Place refers to the point of sale. This principle varies between brick-and-mortar retail stores and online shopping sites. For example, it’s probably best for a brick-and-mortar store owner to sell products that local consumers need, such as raincoats and umbrellas in the Pacific Northwest or sunscreen in the Southwest. On the other hand, a website can sell a wide range of products to an even greater range of consumers. Only delivery stands between the customers and the products.

Place, too, may indicate a product’s actual location within a store or on a website, and whether its accessibility helps drive sales.

Principle 4: Promotion

Promotion encompasses marketing communication strategies and techniques, such as advertising, sales promotions, special offers and public relations. Whichever mechanism is used, it must be suited to the product, price and consumer. Ultimately, promotion is how companies communicate their product to consumers.

Examples of promotion include advertisements for holiday sales or exclusive one-day deals during the year to bring people into the online or brick-and-mortar marketplace.