workshop Halloween: monsters’ faces from fruit and veggie scraps
🌱🎃 This Halloween Grandma Sita had a lot of fun creating scary monster’ faces made from fruits and veggies with the kids and parents of Forældrenes Børneklub in Copenhagen. All children were welcome with their parents or adult companions (usually family members), generating a space for intergenerational cooking.
🥦🍎 Grandma Sita’s fun Halloween activity to stop pumpkin waste and encourage our little ones to eat more raw fruit and veggies. Fruit, veggies, and bread were provided by Too Good To Go‘s Surprise Packs, the 1 anti-food waste mobile application. In every cooking workshop, Grandma Sita inspires action by utilizing as much food rescue as possible to minimize food waste. Think global, act local!
😱 Looking for a scare this Halloween? Millions of pumpkins are tossed in the trash after Halloween, clogging up landfills and adding to food waste. But the wasted potential for food is not the scariest thing about pumpkin waste. When pumpkins clog up landfills, they decompose and produce an extremely harmful greenhouse gas; methane, a greenhouse gas with more than 20 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide.
🌎 Luckily, you can avoid this horror movie by using fresh pumpkins for delicious plant-based recipes like Grandma Sita while composting old, carved pumpkins. All of us can act at home to reduce our waste and every single one counts, happy Halloween everybody!
➡️ Forældrenes Børneklub is family-based association in Nordvest, Copenhagen. Volunteers are parents with children aged 0-6, who plan & organize all activities. Please find out more about it here. 👉https://www.facebook.com/foraeldrenesboerneklub
👵💚 Grandma Sita’s tips:
*Instead of throwing pumpkin scraps in the bin, keep them as leftovers and use them in sweet and savory plant-based dishes like curries, soups, desserts, and baked treats. Nothing will go to waste in Grandma Sita’s kitchen, save the pumpkin seeds to enjoy raw or roast sparkle on the top of soup and salads. Plant-based recipe here 👉easy-pumpkin-soup.
*Freezing pumpkin scraps in the increments you use most makes it easier to store, thaw, and eventually use.
*Pumpkin seeds with shells pack twice the fiber content of shelled ones. You can eat the shell of a pumpkin seed. The shells add a nice crunch to this nutritious snack.
*Remember just like other vegetables, pumpkins are completely compostable. They belong in the compost bin, not in the trash.
📗The practice of carving pumpkins for Halloween originated from an Irish myth about a man named “Stingy Jack”. The turnip has traditionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the native pumpkin. That’s why Jack-o’-lantern is known for the carved pumpkin lantern associated with Halloween.
♻️You can always decorate pumpkins not carving which is a way to keep them fresh until cooking or even get more creative by making an edible Jack-o’-lantern (carved pumpkin lantern) out of fruit and veggies instead of buying pumpkins.
👣 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!