Bringing Leftovers to Life
A British Council collaborative project with schools all across Europe
The idea is simple: no-one likes eating the same food for days running. Have your parents ever made too much dinner, and you’re eating it for the next week?!…
As a group of three schools: Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School in the UK, ZDZ K. K.Baczyńskiego in Poland and Cross and Passion College in Northern Ireland decided to design a campaign to encourage reusing food waste and food scraps for our collaborative project ‘Stronger together for social action’. We researched the types of foods that tend to be left over the most, which include pasta, salads, milk, boiled potatoes, bread, fruits, eggs, and roast vegetables. Therefore, we started thinking about how to change leftovers – for the better! We are excited about making a positive impact in our school communities, as well as the wider community in our three countries.
The three schools have decided to work together to create an e-recipe book of recipes for leftover and scrap food. The collaborative recipe book will offer lots of interesting recipes that give a fantastic opportunity to share some of the unique and traditional cultural differences between our three countries. Our recipe book will hopefully be available to all online where we hope to create a contest for the best recipe. We plan to film the preparation and cooking of the recipes with the biggest number of likes in each school. The Polish school, as they have English language classes for Hospitality and Catering Services, will add the book and films to its curriculum as obligatory to watch and prepare during their language and practical lessons.
Our e-book will be active and open to add any new recipes anytime anywhere. But apart from that we would also like to create an acrostic poem that will stand for ‘Bringing Leftovers to Life’ through an online platform that will be available to everyone. This is a creative, fun, collaborative but also a challenging way for students to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas about the subject and for Polish students to learn the language as well. As it was stated at the beginning we tend to get something with one ear and let it out with the other. With this acrostic poem we hope the whole idea will stay in our heads for longer. The two English speaking schools can challenge themselves to write a poem in Polish as well!
We pitched our ideas to the British Council, along with 30 other schools all across Europe and are excited about working together to inspire others to care about food. Someone takes their time to make our food, right? So it is only correct that we use it wisely.
