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2025 Week 6 Session
Food Disposal & Waste

Week 6 Curriculum

Welcome to Week 6 of the CoT Program. This page contains the program curriculum for the Week 6 session.

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Objectives: The objectives of this session are to:

  • Understand and explore DEI systemic environmental injustices with vulnerable communities.

  • Explore different perspectives that influence how tough decisions are made with global climate change, transportation, and energy matters that affect vulnerable communities.

  • Provide a high-level overview of the CoT Final Project Competition.

 

Resources

 

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Center of Transformation

BGCGW CoT
Intro Video

Google Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y90J4ETejeCSLJOhTbl0EPHBZu0BWj-b/view?usp=share_link
Duration: 5 minutes and 59 seconds

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Weekly Activity

Sustainable Food Cookbook Recipes

Exercise or Activity

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Instructions:

This week, Project Teams will create a Sustainable Food Digital Cookbook Recipes using the MyPlate tool as a portion size guide.

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1.  Each Project Team must work together create three recipes: (1) breakfast, (2) lunch recipe, and (3) dinner recipe that contain healthy and sustainable foods. Project Teams are encouraged to do online research to ensure your recipe contains healthy and sustainable foods.

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2.  Each recipe MUST:

  • Feed a family of 4.

  • Include a list of ingredients and quantity/amounts. (For example: Green apples (3) or Lemon juice (3 tablespoons), or Cream cheese (8 ounces)).

  • Include step-by-step cooking instructions on how to prepare the recipe. (Describe the cooking pre-heat and heat temperatures, how to cook the ingredients, how long to cook them, and how to know when the meal is fully cooked.)

  • Be prepared or cooked in 30 minutes.

  • Guiding Star Rating for each ingredient.

  • Contain use the MyPlate portion sizes and healthy foods: (1) protein, (1) fruit, (1) vegetable, and (1) grain.

 

Giant Resources:

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Waste Disposal Plan: Each Project Team's recipe submission must include a waste disposal plan that outlines how waste will be handled from the food and preparation of the three recipes.

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Submit the Sustainable Food Cookbook Recipes at:  https://forms.office.com/r/qPQffJWEma.

Wrap-up

1. Session Debrief Questions:

  • What surprised you most about food waste?

  • What simple things can you do at home to reduce food waste?

  • How did your project team handle waste for your recipes?

2.  Facilitator: ​

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