recipe-free workshop: plant-based cooking with scraps // International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW)

🗓️ Sept. 29 🗑️International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW) – Climate Finance for Food Loss and Waste Reduction. At Grandma Sita’s kitchen, every day is IDAFLW. Grandma Sita is always happy to share practical, creative, and impactful ways to change our behavior by preventing food waste. Grandma Sita’s recipe-free plant-based cooking workshop with scraps shines a light on this issue, and by tackling it together, we can make a meaningful impact on our global food system.

📢 The lack of knowledge about food is one of the reasons for household food waste. Why do food loss and waste matter? Take the quiz created by the UN Environment Programme 👉stopfoodlosswaste.org/international-day/take-quiz

♻️🧑‍🍳In this recipe-free cooking workshop with Too Good To Go’s Surprise Packs, the master thesis students from the DISIE Thesis Hub saved surplus food from going to the bin plus learned how to improvise a plant-based meal cooking with scraps making amazing dishes from what you have. This workshop actively reduces food waste, creates new recipe ideas, and cooks a tasty meal together with all the tasty preparations. Fighting food waste together!

📱Fruit, veggies, and bread were provided by Too Good To Go‘s Surprise Packs, the 1 anti-food waste mobile application. 

👵💚Grandma Sita’s tips:
*You can keep your food waste to a minimum with a few simple changes, from storing food correctly to using up your leftovers, using every edible part of fruits and veggies, and planning meals.
*Only buy the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables you need to use. Most of them can be frozen as single ingredients.
*Peelings from potatoes and citrus, fruit and vegetable cores, and stems can be used for compost.

👣🌎 What you eat has a footprint, Grandma Sita makes sure it’s tasty, planet-friendly, and cooked with tons of love. Sustainability tastes great everywhere!

📊Did you know that 33% of all food produced globally is lost or wasted yearly? And just a quarter of the food wasted globally could be used to feed the 795 million undernourished people in the world. But food waste is not only a moral issue, it’s a key contributor to climate change too. Wasting food is a waste of energy to grow, harvest, process, and cook, and food waste in landfills can cause methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas.

➡️ The International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW) is marked for the third time on 29 September, the observance calls on everyone to work together to cut food loss and waste to mitigate climate change and support improved food security and nutrition. + info👉stopfoodlosswaste.org