Exchange lesson Tuesday/Thursday Sustainable dinner: cooking with a low foodprint

• Mens & Maatschappij
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

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Foodprint: cooking with a low ecological footprint

Sustainable food?

Sustainable food production means that there will be no question of environmental degradation.

everything can be re-used and the net CO2 emission is zero

 

Food footprint

Intensification

Biodiversity

How can we eat more sustainable?
Discuss in your group and put in the keywords

The seven steps of eating sustainable

1. Eat less meat

2. Waste less food. Only buy what you need.

3.  Eat what your body needs. Avoid snacks and candy

4. Mainly drink tapwater, tea and coffee

5. Eat adequate amounts of dairy and cheese. No more than necessary.

6. Choose seasonal products and look at the product's origin

7. Choose products that have an environmental friendly sticker.

Eating insects?

- a lot of protein, little fat

- much less farmland needed

- much less CO2 emission

- you need (way) less food for the insects than for other animals

www.footprintcalculator.org

Hand in your printscreens of your ecological footprint.

QUIZ Eat low carbon

• Take the quiz on the next website and test your knowledge of what you've learned so far about Ecological footprints What are the outcomes? Discuss this in your group.

www.eatlowcarbon.org

Talk together (2 minutes)

• What are you already doing to eat more sustainable?
• What do you find difficult?
• Is sustainable food cheaper or more expensive? And why?

The assignment part 1

Put together a menu (3 courses) that is sustainable and tasty. 

 For each course you will think of 3 sustainable options.
Appetizers (3)/main course(3)/desserts (3)

Find the recipes and make your menu. Use pictures or drawings to decorate your menu.

Get an A3 piece of paper and make/draw a beautifully decorated menu with your group including all the courses

Wednesday and Thursday

Tomorrow you need to be at the parking lot at 8 o'clock. The bus leaves at 8:15.

Bring your own lunch and make sure you have money to get yourself dinner in the evening. 

Thursday you have to be at the market at 9:30 with your match. You are going to buy the ingredients that you need for your sustainable recipe. 

Assignment for Thursday Part 2

• Find the foodprint for your menu (each separate ingredient => website on next slide)
  
• give a conclusion about how sustainable your menu really is, do you need to change any ingredients? 
• Present your findings to the class. Make a powerpoint.
  

foodfootprint.nl