Browsing by Subject "Ruoka"
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(2023)Competitive sports are popular among young people and leisure hobby environments are recognized in the field of food education as important places for informal learning. The roles of parents and coaches are considered central in the formation of young athletes' perceptions of food. The study aimed to describe young athletes' views and experiences of eating that supports wellbeing and to analyze how young people think that the home and hobby environment support eating. This study was conducted using a qualitative research methods. The data consist of ten individual interviews with young athletes aged 13-16. The interview method was a semi- structured theme interview and the original expressions found in the data were analyzed using theory-driven content analysis. The analysis followed a three-step process, which included data reduction, clustering and abstraction. The pursuit of healthiness and a preference for home-cooked food are related to young people's eating. Eating out was very unusual, because restaurant food is not considered to meet the requirements set for an athlete’s diet. There were few species-specific differences in healthy eating in the data. According to young people, family was the most important support for eating, and family support was described by three upper categories: teaching eating practices, healthy family lifestyles, and relying on parents' knowledge. The support received from the coaches ranged from short reminders to more detailed nutrition advice. Experiences about the lack of coach support were also brought up. The results of the study shed light on young athletes’ views and experiences of the support provided by food environments. The results are important in supporting the food education of athletes, when we want to understand young people's experiences of eating that supports well-being. We still need more information about how leisure environments support young people’s eating and what kind of cooperation between different actors takes place in food education environments. Further research could focus on how sports coaches or hobby activity instructors view supporting children's and young people's eating.
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(2021)The year 2020 changed our everyday life. The exceptional circumstances with Covid-19 have suddenly affected people’s everyday life. The purpose of this study is to observe how meal box service can help everyday cooking habits during the exceptional situation. Meal box service consists of food items, premeasured, and accompanied by a set of recipes. Meal box are mostly delivered home, or you can pick it up from special store. This study analyses what consumers appreciate when using meal box service and how it helps everyday life. People who took part in this study have used the meal box service during corona situation between autumn 2020 and spring 2021, when everyday life felt normal again after the crisis-like nature during spring 2020. This research applies qualitative methodology. The data were collected by using the theme interview method with both face to face and remote access. The interviews were made during February and March 2021. Nine adults took part in the interview, age range 26–56 years. All interviews were living in one- or two-people’s households without children. The interview records were analyzed using qualitive content analysis. The results of this analysis can be divided into three main categories as following, everyday life routines, services during the exceptional situation and change of everyday life. The results of this study show that meal box service helps everyday life by saving time from grocery shopping and meal planning and giving more time to do some other tasks. Covid-19 situation shows that people wanted to support companies by using meal box service. During the exceptional situation people have spent more time at home, which increased the need to prepare more food at home. This is one of the reasons people wanted to choose meal box service. Meal box service helps by diversifying eating habits and lowers the need to do grocery shopping. Other positive effects were discovering new recipes and ingredients. Difficulties using the service were that it didn’t remove the need for grocery shopping altogether. Special diets where also founded to be quite challenging when using meal box service because it didn’t take all diets inconsideration. Some people thought that weekly subscription was too captivating, because they didn’t want to use the service every week.
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