 So we have seen how to see the balance diet, what are the food groups and how to use the food guide in selection of foods and how to plan a meal and keep the family fit. So other aspects of that affect the food selection also must be known to us. So let us see what are those factors. So one is the skill in food preparation. We may be having all the foods which are very good in good nutritionally and we have variety of foods. So we should have a very good skill in food preparation which is an essential part of acceptable and dicing meal and it requires practice. So suppose somebody tries the food for the first time you may not get the taste as you have eaten somewhere else, therefore practice is very important. In ingenious combinations of foods is very important to get a very tasty recipe otherwise it leads to a very bad taste and nobody will accept the food and when it is acceptable the food is very enjoyable and we need a variety in the meal. So if the meal is monotonous some of the families they cook the food in the morning and the same food is eaten in the afternoon same thing is eaten in the night. Therefore it becomes so monotonous that people lose interest in eating. Therefore a monotony in meals should be avoided. So to avoid the monotony you try to prepare a new dish at least once a week so that family members will be waiting for the new dish. Then learn to prepare kusins of different countries always using the same kusin that is present in the area which individual dwells is it becomes monotonous. So whenever we try some new kusins there is a lot of interest in trying to taste those foods. Then availability of food also affects the selection so using seasonal foods will not pose a problem in selection of food and it also reduces the cost and some fruits and vegetables can be grown in the garden itself. Every house can grow a garden and today home gardening has become gained so much of importance that whether it is an independent house or with some place for kitchen garden or it is an apartment there is some place that can be created for having a kitchen garden. Then some foods can be purchased soon after the time of harvest especially when you think of grains, dals etc when you purchase them soon after the harvest the cost is less and at the same time you get a very good quality food and you should know the storage part of the food how well it can be stored for the rest of the year. Then family size is another factor which will affect the selection of food so it affects the foods that can be served. So the entire family should accept the foods that are prepared and selected for the meal and this affects the money that is needed for purchasing the food and then the preparation time and the style of table service preferred. So the food prepared should also take very less time in preparation of the food at the same time to serve when if the entire family comes and sits together the serving time is also very less the preparation time for making the dish also should be less so that the person who is preparing the meal is not tired. Now schedules when planning a meal pattern is very important because all the family members who go out for work or each member has their own schedule of time for meals. So you need to think the time table of the members and the meal times have to be thought number of meals eaten at home or now and outside has to be decided or it has to be kept in mind for preparing the food then if the person takes a packed lunch then the type of preparation that has to go into the packed lunch should be such that the taste and the acceptability of food does not change when the person eats it after 2 or 3 hours then so that the menus should be modified according to the need of the individual and at the same time it should be appetizing and consumable. Then time is very important factor because we cannot spend the whole day's time in cooking or preparation of food so time for meal preparation is very important and the help that is available for preparation of food it may be an outside help or from the children they or you can hire help that also reduces the time in preparation then it may affect the choice of foods bought and the menu if there is very less time and if the people have to go early in the morning you cannot select a food that requires a lot of time for preparation so based on the time we select the foods to be prepared and serve to the family then the age group of family members the family composition affects the kind and amount of food that is needed and pattern of meals that are served whether it is each one is served separately or everybody sits together or some packed lunch is to be taken or the other way we are eating at home or outside so all these have to be thought thought when children are below 5 years you the requirement for milk is more and the number of meals also or more because they cannot take a large quantity at a time their requirement is high but the intake is less so you feed them more number of times to meet their nutrient requirement and as the child grows the meal pattern changes because they start going to school so depending upon the school hours the packed lunch or snack has to be planned so when the child is a very young child you pack a snack for 11 o'clock and then during lunchtime they have a packed lunch and again one snack so so many things have to be thought and packed for a child and when it comes to adolescence adolescent also is a very very important growing period and the adolescents need more food than the adults and they need larger quantities of food to support their growth and activities so and individual variation also is great in this age group the gender variation is very much because boys think they have to grow in their weight and height so they eat more food whereas girls they think they have to be slim and trim so they reduce their intake then a number of physical emotional and mental changes also occur during adolescence that has to be taken into consideration and you plan sufficient amounts of proteins because of their growth minerals and vitamins in each meal so that they meet their recommended allowances now we have middle age and adults also in a family so here once the age increases the metabolic rate starts decreasing every decade so the metabolic rate decreases and the energy requirement also will decrease along with the BMR therefore the need for other nutrients will not decrease only the energy requirement will decrease but the other requirement remains the same so food selection is made according to the daily food guide number of servings will depend upon the body size and activity of the person suppose he is a sedentary worker the requirement is less moderate worker a little more and heavy worker requires large quantities of food to so that the energy expenditure is more we have to give the energy intake equal to the energy expenditure to balance the amount of energy then working and yoga can help to maintain the optimum health so along with energy intake exercise also is important to maintain optimum health therefore we have to see how the various factors like age the composition and the variety cost all these affect the food selection and keeping you in view all these together we have to select the best foods and give importance to each age group person in the house and maintain the health of the family thank you