Love Food Hate Waste

Love Food

flour from the USAmozzarella cheese and tomatoes from Italyblack pepper from Indiaolives from Greece1000 miles5000 miles5,400 miles1,500 milesFor example - Where does our food come from?pineapple from Kenya4,500 milesWe use a lot of resources to create food.

How much food do we waste?

What types of food do we waste?

Why worry about it?

What can you do to help?Plan write a shopping listPlan create the correct portion sizesStore food properly freeze bread, keep apples in the fridgeUse up leftovers in different recipes

Good news ....Between 2006/07 and 2010 food waste has reduced by around 13%, over 1 million tonnes......this amount of food would fill Wembley stadium!

BUT ... We can do more ...

Competition TimeWhat is involved?Create a recipe using leftovers. Then if you are chosen cook your recipe for the judges.When do I enter by?By start of week 5 - Monday 17th SeptemberCooking will run in week 8 Tuesday 9th October after school until 6pmWhat do I win? 1st 50 vouchers2nd - 25 vouchersAny other important information ....www.lovefoodhatewaste.com

Notes for slidesSlide no.2 - Start by talking about how much we love food! Slide no.3 - Fuel, food for animals, water, energy fro cooking ... The list could go on depending on how detailed you got.Total mileage for pizza with these toppings = 17,400 miles. Most of us dont think about that when were eating it!Slide no.4 - We use a lot of resources to make our food and yet a lot gets wasted.Slide no.5 - In a school of 1000 pupils you could all have 700 free chocolate bars! Or 4,400 free apples each

*Start by talking about how much we love food!

**Fuel, food for animals, water, energy fro cooking ... The list could go on depending on how detailed you got.Total mileage for pizza with these toppings = 17,400 miles. Most of us dont think about that when were eating it!

We use a lot of resources to make our food and yet a lot gets wasted.*In a school of 1000 pupils you could all have 700 free chocolate bars!Or4,400 free apples each******