Cooking up A Game

Catherine Frederio, MS RD LDNTamara Legros, BS

I’m Playing

• Food Focus: Fruits• Veggie Garden Palooza• Breast Cancer Care• Max’s Plate• Mix & Max Memory

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I’m Playing on iPhone

Peggle Scramble Draw Something

I’m Playing

in the app kitchen

Catherine Frederico, MS RD LDN

Grocery Game Recap

Scavenger Hunt gps aisle position obstacles race time score

Food label barcodes camera to scan aisle QR codes

Cart balance health claims health index organics origin

Rewards coupons calories burned healthy eating points image copyright Anna Diederich , 2012, Used under license from shutterstock.com

What dietitians want

• Frederico, C. Results of a Dietitian Survey About Nutrition Games. Games for Health Journal 1(1): 2012.

RD

Registered dietitian

www.eatright.org

www.eatright.org72,000

Survey Results

• 72 responses

4%

96%

play don’t play

Survey Results

• beneficial ?

79%

21%

yes no maybe

Make Games for:

• middle school• all ages• elementary school• high school• adults

Priority list, college after adults

Make games on:

• PC• Smartphone• Mac• Console• Handheld• Tablet

priority list

What kind of games?Survey A - free choice

• healthy eating• healthy snacking• cooking for kids• cooking• MNT• grocery shopping

26 topicscooking ranks 3 & 4

What kind of games?Survey B - choose

• portions 1• meal planning 2a• eating out 2b• shopping 3• food labels 4a• all topics 4b• weight control 5

What kind of games?Survey B - choose

• cooking skills 6• calorie control 7• wellness/prevention 8• snacking 9• nutrient composition 10a• cholesterol 10b• diabetes 10c

Cooking Games

none on consoles

Tamara’s Playing

Recipe for GreatCooking Games

Catherine Frederico, MS RD LDNTamara Legros, BS

During the economic downturn, Americans were often working more than 1 job or doing overtime to make ends meet. Time is a precious commodity. Restaurant portions are large, high in fat, sodium, and calories.While the CDC data shows 66% of adults and 33% of children are overweight or obese. Americans are losing their ability to cook as these skills are not being passed on to younger generations. This dangerous trend sets the stage for Americans to lose control of what they eat as we become ever more reliant on convenient processed foods.

Why cooking games...

• 43% eat together every day JAmMed

• 39% eat together every day 2009 CBS News poll

• eat out 5 meals per week 2011 Living Social Poll

share stories & life events; pattern eating for childrendisconnect from TV for mindful eating

Do you cook?

• 43% cook 6-7x/week 2009 CBS News Poll

• 44% over 64 cook 7x/week

• 23% 18-29 year olds cook 7x/week

• fewer men cook; younger men cook more

• 33% of children help cook

American Obesity Epidemic

Overweight Obese

1950 33% 10%

1990 66% 30%

other countries

5 of the top leading causes of death are diet

related

heart, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, kidney

Are you eating fast food?

• varies with age, gender, geography

• men eat it more than women

• young eat it more than elders

• families with children eat it more

• Southerners eat it more than West or NE

pollpoor eat it more, food deserts

Food Deserts

• poor eat it more

• http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/fooddesert/fooddesert.ht ml

www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-desert-locator/go-to-the-locator.aspx

Cooking as Entertainment

Cupcake Wars

Iron Chef

Man vs Food Bizarre Foods

Sweet Genius

Diners, Drive Ins & Dives

We know that cooking can be entertaining.TV food programs are now entertainment

“Cooking Games”Search

75,600,000 results

0.12 seconds; clearly not able to try all of them; clearly an area of popular developmentcln 0 .12 seconds

web cooking games

Not so good, cooking mama multiple platformsoy1 cooking games - 500+ games over 7 pages, 620 Likes on Facebookdidigames.com, top cooking games.com, girlsgogames.com

lots of restaurant games about serving people

Cooking Mama

web cooking games

cookinggames.com and ecookinggames.com202, 511 Likes on Facebook!Turkey tetrazini has 37,477 playsWorld of Warcraft adssalt, too much garlic powder, too much oil, winelook for child appropriate

www.fsis.usda.gov/oa/foodsafetymobile/mobilegame.swf

www.fsis.usda.gov/oa/foodsafetymobile/mobilegame.swf

Better Cooking Games

nourish interactive.comBU, Prof Joan Salge Blake http://people.bu.edu/salge/learning.html

www.maxonsnax.com

http://pbskids.org/lunchlab/#/games/hard-boiled

food oriented, sodium, nutrition

525 iPhone Cooking Games

Could be BetteriPhone Games

donut maker, cupcake maker, cake pop maker, cola soda makermany more

Good iPhone Cooking Games

cooking academy, cooking star, kidz kitchen, salad now

What Can We Do?

Find the Recipe for Better Games

Cook Up a GameCatherine Frederico, MS RD LDN

How do we get from this?

Through this...

to this?

Game Ingredients

• recipes• equipment• measuring• food safety• technique• serving

Game Ingredients

• Invite RD on team• Balanced meal options• Healthy cooking options• Age appropriate• Health appropriate

No wine or heavy spice in cooking games for children; no saltHealth appropriate: wellness or disease stateHealthy visual cuesMust have RD or chef RD

Many cookbooks authored by RDs for inspiration

Many clinical cookbooks authored by RDs for inspirationhttp://snap.nal.usda.gov Recipe Finderdisease management books

Flavor

by RDiSpice app

Game Ingredients

• Make it fresh• Show food in whole form• Food geographic origin• Cultural• Cost• Prep time• Serving portions

Equipment

Playing pieces

gadgets

Playing pieces

Measuring

Game tactic

add food safety elementget rid of sponges

www.FoodSafety.gov

separate, don’t cross contaminate, cook to appropriate temp, chill at appropriate temp

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/fact_sheets/danger_zone/index.aspkeep cold things cold and hot things hot

identify the properly cooked burger

Guess the burger cooked to 160 degrees F

Food Storage

Quiz about storage times

cooking in different environments

technique

• www.eatwell.com• www.foodnetwork.com• http://pinterest.com/

source/dietitians.ca • www.foodculinaryprofs.org

resourcesEllie Krieger, RD, Food Network showFood Network blog by RDs http://blog.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/

www.ChooseMyPlate.gov

serving

www.choosemyplate.gov

Eat the rainbow for variety and balance.Plating

Mash Up

• Cooking motions from Cooking Mama• Varied equipment from CookingGames.com• Dash of science from Fizzy’s Lunch Lab• Sprinkle of flavoring ideas

Mix with Game Design

• Flow• Art• Sound• Social• Rewards

Bake ~ Yield ~ Serve

My FabCooking

Game

My Fab Cooking Game

What are your cooking game ideas?

Contact

• Catherine Frederico, MS RD LDN• www.NutritionVision.info• www.FoodFocusArcade.com• @NutritionVision