Clean Plate Less Waste
workshops
Have you been on a journey to reduce food and packaging waste at your early learning setting, school or community? Or perhaps you’ve been wanting to start but not sure how? We can help!
Our Clean Plate Less Waste Lunchbox Workshops are a great option, regardless of how much, or little progress, you’ve made so far in becoming more environmentally-friendly.
Our workshops are available to early learning settings, schools and community groups across Auckland:
Waste-Free Lunches Community Workshops
Learn how to make nutritious, affordable and practical lunches and snacks for preschoolers and school-aged children while reducing food and packaging waste.
Delivered in collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste NZ, our popular waste-free lunches community workshops suit the whole whānau, including early learning settings, parents, cooks and educators, as well as parent & child in-school and community events.
Workshop Includes:
Presentation by Clean Plate/Love Food Hate Waste on how our food choices may impact our health as well as the planet
Interactive group activity exploring popular pre-packaged snacks for children
Cooking demo of healthy and environmentally-friendly recipes (including audience participation), and tasting
Informative resources to take home
Duration: approx. 2 hours
This workshop is delivered in collaboration with
Litterless Lunchboxes School Cooking Sessions
Interactive and fun cooking sessions for Years 5-7 school-aged tamariki to learn how to make easy lunchbox recipes that can effortlessly be replicated at home and at school, and most importantly, that everyone would enjoy eating and having in their lunchboxes.
Workshop Includes:
Basic cooking and health & safety skills
Collaborative hands-on cooking and tasting of healthy and sustainable lunchbox recipes
Our In-school cooking sessions work best with groups of up to 16 children at a time and can be delivered as a one-off session or as multi-sessions built into your school programme. Clean Plate provides all cooking equipment and ingredients – all we need from schools is access to a kitchen with fridge, oven/stove and running water, and a suitable space for the cooking to take place (e.g., school hall).
Duration: Each cooking session lasts approximately 2 hours.
‘Becoming a Litterless Lunchbox Ambassador’ School Sessions
Truly litterless lunchboxes start with our food choices and thinking about the connection between the foods we eat and their impact on our wellbeing and the environment. On the other hand, if we only focus on reducing waste at school, either by bringing no packaging to school or taking wrappers back home, we will still be sending the same amount of litter to landfill – the only difference is that it will be via the household bin instead.
School sessions include:
Understanding the environmental impacts of lunchbox food and packaging waste
Understanding how levels of food processing of lunchbox snacks impact our health and planet Earth
Group activities to explore topics such as healthiness and sustainability of popular lunchbox snacks, the circular economy and waste hierarchy, and how to reduce and correctly sort food and packaging waste
Creating and sharing tips for litterless lunchboxes with peers and the school community
A minimum of 2 x 2-hour long school sessions per group or classroom is required, or we can customise shorter sessions to build into your school science or enviro programme.
Our workshops and school sessions can be tailored to suit your specific needs. For example, you may choose to run it as an extra curriculum activity during school hours, an after-school event, a professional development session at your early learning setting, or as a parent-child activity in your community.
If you’re not sure, just reach out and we can help you decide what is the best option for you.
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If you'd like to find out more or book a Clean Plate Less Waste Lunchbox Workshop for your ECE, primary school or community group, we are here to help.