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Abstract

Meal mutability is proposed as a concept to describe the way in which recipes may be flexibly interpreted and enacted as meals by consumers, based on different relationships between provisioning and cooking in domestic households. This concept is explored using qualitative analysis from a project focussing on modelling household food and packaging waste, and future directions are suggested for research into domestic recipes, meals and provisioning. The goal of this work is to assist the development of work attempting to estimate the environmental consequences of foods and particular meals, in order to promote healthier and more sustainable alternatives.

Publication Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Publisher Keywords:	Recipes, Household provisioning, meals, meal mutability, household food, environmental sustainability
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Departments:	School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Healthcare Services Research & Management > Food Policy

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