Appendices
Appendix 7. Interviews
Female, age 43, financial analyst, married, 2 kids, 15 and 11-sons.
Q: What are the most annoying issues for you regarding daily meals, what would you like to change or improve?
A: Boys are playing ice hockey, they are eating a lot, especially after training and it Is very tiring to cook every evening after work.
Q:Do you prefer cooking at home, going to restaurants or ordering ready-made food at home, what do you do more often?
A: Mostly at home because the kids and husband do not like to go to restaurants because the portions are too small.
Q: What are your eating habits and preferences (vegan, vegetarian, lactose intolerants, particular cuisine)?
A: No restrictions. Quite often we prepare rice, chicken and pasta.
Q: What would you like to improve regarding your eating habits, would you like to have a healthier diet? more versatile menu?
A: We probably should eat more healthy vitamins, more vegetables and especially kids are eating a lot of unhealthy food. Would like to figure out new kinds of recipes.
Q: How often do you go food shopping at the supermarket? What is the most annoying thing about food shopping?
A: 2-3 times per week, to create shopping lists and decide what to buy for the whole week.
Q: Would you like to get advice from the nutritionist or dietician?
A: Yes.
Q: Would you like to receive a ready-made weekly menu that will improve your health?
A: Yes, it would be great!
Q: Which dishes/products do you eat most often (examples), and why? (taste, quality, price, nutrients, vitamins, healthy, just a habit, affordable, easy to cook etc.)
A: Pasta, chicken, rice, minced meat, meatballs, because they are fast and boys like this kind of food.
Female, age 43, business controller, married, 1 kid, 8-year-old son.
Q: What are the most annoying issues for you regarding daily meals, what would you like to change or improve?
A: Cooking different food every day for the kid and husband takes a lot of time.
Q:Do you prefer cooking at home, going to restaurants or ordering ready made food at home, what do you do more often?
A: More often cooking at home.
Q: What are your eating habits and preferences (vegan, vegetarian, lactose intolerants, particular cuisine)?
A: Husband is lactose intolerant. I eat basically everything, like Italian and Indian.
Q: What would you like to improve regarding your eating habits, would you like to have a healthier diet? more versatile menu?
A: Would like to eat more versatile food, and eat more healthily.
Q: How often do you go food shopping at the supermarket? What is the most annoying thing about food shopping?
A: The most annoying thing is making a shopping list and we still always forget something, we go shopping 4-5 times per week.
Q: Would you like to get advice from the nutritionist or dietician?
A: Yes, but it is quite an expensive service in Helsinki.
Q: Would you like to receive a ready made weekly menu that will improve your health?
Q: Which dishes/products do you eat most often (examples), and why? (taste, quality, price, nutrients, vitamins, healthy, just a habit, affordable, easy to cook etc.)
A: Musli and yoghourt for breakfast, chicken with french fries, pizza, potato salad, pasta, cookies, kids like sweets, trying to eat vegetables every day because of the vitamins
Q: Please have a look at our prototype. How likely would you use it?
A: Looks interesting, I would try.
Q: What do you like about the prototype?
A: It looks nice, and easy-to-use application, and might be really helpful.
Male, age 54, salesman, married, 2 kids, 21-year-old son, 19-year-old daughter.
Q: What are the most annoying issues for you regarding daily meals, what would you like to change or improve?
A: Cooking is annoying because I am not very capable and it is difficult to follow recipes even if they are very detailed. I also decided to eat less meat and more vegetarian food since the new year but I do not know much about vegetarian dishes.
Q: Do you prefer cooking at home, going to restaurants or ordering ready made food at home, what do you do more often?
A: Mostly going out or ordering something if the wife is not cooking but usually she is also very busy.
Q: What are your eating habits and preferences (vegan, vegetarian, lactose intolerants, particular cuisine)?
A: I like a lot of meat, steaks, burgers, and also desserts and sweets.
Q: What would you like to improve regarding your eating habits, would you like to have a healthier diet? more versatile menu?
A: Eat more healthy, more vegetables but it is boring and difficult to change.
Q: How often do you go for food shopping at the supermarket? What is the most annoying thing about food shopping?
A: 2 times per week, annoying that they live in Espoo, a bit remote and it takes time to go to the supermarket and he is sometimes lost to find the right kind of products.
Q: Would you like to get advice from the nutritionist or dietician?
A: Would be useful.
Q: Would you like to receive a ready made weekly menu that will improve your health?
A: If there Is meat, yes.
Q: Which dishes/products do you eat most often (examples), and why? (taste, quality, price, nutrients, vitamins, healthy, just a habit, affordable, easy to cook etc.)
A: Meat, because of the taste, but try to minimise sweets, pasta, rice, and french fries.
Q: Please have a look at our prototype. How likely would you use it?
A: I will give it a try, but I think my kids will be more interested.
Q: What do you like about the prototype?
A: I think it’s easy enough to follow, but I’m not sure if it will motivate me to start cooking myself.
Female, age 39, nurse, married, 2 kids, 8-year-old son, 3-year-old daughter.
Q: What are the most annoying issues for you regarding daily meals, what would you like to change or improve?
A: The most annoying thing is to figure out the weekly menu for the whole family, making it healthy and taking into account the tastes of everybody in the family. Also since I work in health care, I know how people struggle when they learn that, for instance, they have diabetes and they have to change their usual diet and lifestyle to keep healthy. I think it will be great to have an app that will have advice and menus for these people.
Q: Do you prefer cooking at home, going to restaurants or ordering ready made food at home, what do you do more often?
A: Eating at home.
Q: What are your eating habits and preferences (vegan, vegetarian, lactose intolerants, particular cuisine)?
A: No restrictions, but I prefer a vegetarian diet, my younger daughter seems to enjoy it too, but my son and husband prefer to eat meat.
Q: What would you like to improve regarding your eating habits, would you like to have a healthier diet? more versatile menu?
A: We eat relatively healthy. But it would be helpful to have access to an easy healthy meal planning app.
Q: How often do you go for food shopping at the supermarket? What is the most annoying thing about food shopping?
A: We live in a small town, so we try to go shopping once every two weeks. The most annoying thing is that we need to drive to the store. We don't have anything within walking distance, it's annoying to get back home and realise that we forgot to buy something.
Q: Would you like to get advice from the nutritionist or dietician?
A: Might be useful, depending on the price of the service.
Q: Would you like to receive a ready made weekly menu that will improve your health?
A: Yes, that would be really helpful and I'm willing to pay for that.
Q: Which dishes/products do you eat most often (examples), why? (taste, quality, price, nutrients, vitamins, healthy, just a habit, affordable, easy to cook etc.)
A: I try to cook simple and light meals, lots of vegetables and meat for my husband and son. I prefer to eat tofu as a protein source. Also in near future, I want to switch to a vegan diet and if the
application can help me with that, that would be great!
Q: Please have a look at our prototype. How likely would you use it?
A: I will definitely use something like this because it will be so much easier, the application just tells you what to cook each day and there is no need to think about this yourself.
Q: What do you like about the prototype?
A: It looks like it will be easy to use, especially I like the possibility of sharing the shopping list that is based on the weekly menu. It will be easier to send my husband to get groceries.
Q: What do you dislike about the prototype, what would you like to improve?
A: I would add more different options for diets, like vegan or raw food recipes. And recipes for people with some health conditions like lactose intolerance.
Male, age 33, software developer, has a girlfriend.
Q: What are the most annoying issues for you regarding daily meals, what would you like to change or improve?
A: Several years ago I discovered that I have gluten intolerance, and I had a really hard time switching to a new diet. I hate to figure out what to cook at home, and I was really annoyed when I had to search for new recipes that would suit me.
Q: Do you prefer cooking at home, going to restaurants or ordering ready made food at home, what do you do more often?
A: I prefer to eat out, but try to eat more at home, especially since the start of the pandemic, but to tell you the truth I hate cooking.
Q: What are your eating habits and preferences (vegan, vegetarian, lactose intolerants, particular cuisine)?
A: I have gluten intolerance and must adjust my weekly meals for that.
Q: What would you like to improve regarding your eating habits, would you like to have a healthier diet? more versatile menu?
A: I try to eat as healthy as I can, but lack of time makes me not as versatile as I would want.
Q: How often do you go for food shopping at the supermarket? What is the most annoying thing about food shopping?
A: I go shopping 3-5 times per week, I don't like to plan meals ahead.
Q: Would you like to get advice from the nutritionist or dietician?
Q: Would you like to receive a ready made weekly menu that will improve your health?
A: Yes, that would be helpful.
Q: Which dishes/products do you eat most often (examples), why? (taste, quality, price, nutrients, vitamins, healthy, just a habit, affordable, easy to cook etc.)
A: I usually buy some ready-made salad from the shop, or cook steak (chicken/beef) at home and serve it with vegetables.
Q: Please have a look at our prototype. How likely would you use it?
A: Yes. Not sure if I would cook for myself, but I would probably use this application to check what I can order or buy in the store. (get recommendations for gluten-free options)
Q: What do you like about the prototype?
A: I think it’s a great idea! If it were connected to some delivery service it would be awesome!
Q: What do you dislike about the prototype, what would you like to improve?
A: Maybe add some lists in the user account that will show forbidden products for some conditions.
Male, age 35, data architect, has a girlfriend.
Q: What are the most annoying issues for you regarding daily meals, what would you like to change or improve?
A: It's annoying to plan your meal and sometimes I want to eat faster than the time to prepare it, even for meals that I could order they could take a long time.
Q: Do you prefer cooking at home, going to restaurants or ordering ready made food at home, what do you do more often?
A: I prefer ordering, but not too often because of the costs. It's good to go out sometimes and on most days I eat lunch outside.
Q: What are your eating habits and preferences (vegan, vegetarian, lactose intolerants, particular cuisine)?
A: I don't have any strict diet but I try to limit eating red meat and sometimes I want to eat more vegetarian foods, a couple of times per week.
Q: What would you like to improve regarding your eating habits, would you like to have a healthier diet? more versatile menu?
A: Yes, I would like to have a healthier diet, better scheduling, more versatile food and more
appropriate food for situations, for example, if I do lots of sports, then I need to eat differently that day.
Q: How often do you go for food shopping at the supermarket? What is the most annoying thing about food shopping?
A: I go shopping almost every day. The most annoying thing is not having a good plan, not having all the food I want in a single shop.
Q: Would you like to get advice from the nutritionist or dietician?
A: Yes.
Q: Would you like to receive a ready made weekly menu that will improve your health?
A: Yes.
Q: Which dishes/products do you eat most often (examples), why? (taste, quality, price, nutrients, vitamins, healthy, just a habit, affordable, easy to cook etc.)
A: Chicken with rice, because it's healthy and easy and fast to make. Easy to find ingredients. Or ready made salads from the shop.
Q: Please have a look at our prototype. How likely would you use it?
A: I would definitely give it a try!
Q: What do you like about the prototype?
A: I like it.
Q: What do you dislike about the prototype, what would you like to improve?
A: Maybe adding times in recipe descriptions? It would be helpful to see how long the recipe will take
Female, age 26, nurse, has a boyfriend.
Q: What are the most annoying issues for you regarding daily meals, what would you like to change or improve?
A: I think about planning ahead, I work shifts and I study, it’s pretty difficult to find time for cooking or figuring out the diet.
Q: Do you prefer cooking at home, going to restaurants or ordering ready made food at home, what do you do more often?
A: I would prefer to order food, but it’s a bit too pricey. So now I have to cook for myself.
Q: What are your eating habits and preferences (vegan, vegetarian, lactose intolerants, particular cuisine)?
A: I’m going to the gym, so I try to eat healthily and eat enough protein, otherwise I don’t have any allergies.
Q: What would you like to improve regarding your eating habits, would you like to have a healthier diet? More versatile menu?
A: I think I have a good idea about how to eat healthily, but I just have a lack of time to plan my weekly menu.
Q: How often do you go for food shopping at the supermarket? What is the most annoying thing about food shopping?
A: I go shopping when I have time, so 2-3 times per week.
Q: Would you like to get advice from the nutritionist or dietician?
A: I kinda know what is good for me, but I would be curious to try if it’s not too expensive.
Q: Would you like to receive a ready made weekly menu that will improve your health?
A: Yes, that definitely would be helpful.
Q: Which dishes/products do you eat most often (examples), why? (taste, quality, price, nutrients, vitamins, healthy, just a habit, affordable, easy to cook etc.)
A: Chicken breasts, salmon, green salad, broccoli, pasta, rice, beans.
Q: Please have a look at our prototype. How likely would you use it?
A: Highly likely to use it.
Q: What do you like about the prototype?
A:I think it’s a great idea for the application! I’ve been working as a nurse for a while and I know that people who were diagnosed with some disease that requires a special diet, have to search for recipes from various websites or Facebook groups. That would be great if there was an application that contains everything. I’m actually wondering why that kind of application still doesn’t exist because that would be very helpful.
Q: What do you dislike about the prototype, what would you like to improve?
A: I would add more versatile content for health conditions, for example, what people with gastritis can eat if they want to gain weight.
Male, business analyst, 31 years old, married, 1 kid Q: Will you trust and use the services of a foreign dietitian?
A: It will be an interesting service, but I think it should be available in the native language.
Q: Will you use a chatbot that was created with the help of a nutrition specialist?
A: I guess, you don’t have to take them too seriously, I would use my own judgement before taking the advice. Overall I think it’s a good idea, chatbots getting more advanced these days.
Female, age 29, single.
Q: Will you trust and use the services of a foreign dietitian?
A: I’m not sure about that.
Q: Will you use a chatbot that was created with the help of a nutrition specialist?
A: If I see the button Contact nutritionist, I will probably go with a chatbot. Because in my opinion, it will take forever to contact a real specialist and get the answer.