Reducing food waste

Cooking and nutrition

Seasonal fruit and vegetables

Making a seasonal salad

This unit explores the seasons in the UK and the seasonal fruit and vegetables available. Pupils examine the benefits of using local food and list ways to reduce food waste. Pupils create and make a salad using seasonal produce.

Seasonal food and ingredients

True or false? Food waste can be reduced by buying loose fruit and vegetables.

to help the food stay safe to eat for as long as possible.

Food waste can be used for {{}}, such as fruit and vegetable peelings, egg shells and tea bags.

Is this food usually grown, reared or caught?

Where do these foods from come? Match their origin.

To help buy only what you need, you could ...

Match the foods to where they should be stored:

food that is intended to be eaten and saved.

food that is intended to be wasted but eaten.

food that is intended to be eaten but wasted.

Reducing food waste

Lesson outcome