🍪 Little Foodies Cooking Workshop: From Leftover Bread to Plant-Based Breakies
Little Foodies is Grandma Sita’s playful cooking workshop for children and their families, where little chefs learn, create and cook together while discovering how to make delicious plant-based food and reduce food waste.
👩🍳🧒 Welcome to Little Foodies! Grandma Sita’s Little Foodies cooking workshops are designed especially for children and their parents or adult companions. They are a chance to roll up your sleeves, get creative in the kitchen and discover that cooking healthy, plant-based food can be playful, tasty and fun for everyone.
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Grandma Sita had a wonderful time bringing Little Foodies to Forældrenes Børneklub in Copenhagen, Denmark. Together, children and grown-ups baked plant-based breakies using ingredients that might otherwise have been wasted. We explored the ingredients, got our hands busy and discovered how a little imagination can turn food that needs using into something delicious to share.
🤗 Little hands, big hands, and plenty of cooking together! All children were welcome with their parents or adult companions, creating a relaxed space for intergenerational cooking. Grandma Sita believes that inviting children into the kitchen is a wonderful way to discover new flavours, enjoy more fruit and vegetables, and build positive food habits from an early age. Because when children get to cook, healthy food becomes an adventure! 🌈🥕
😉 And why “breakies”? Grandma Sita’s breakies are a playful mix of brea(d) + (coo)kies: a plant-based creation designed to use up stale bread and brown bananas while making a delicious snack to enjoy between meals. No complicated tricks – just a little imagination, a few ingredients that need using, and a good excuse to get baking together. Ready, set, bake! 🍪👣
👉 Want to make your own breakies at home? Find Grandma Sita’s full plant-based Breakies recipe and give your leftover bread a tasty second life.
🛒 Food rescue is part of Grandma Sita’s workshops. Whenever possible, we make the most of rescued and surplus food to inspire creative cooking and help minimise food waste. For this Little Foodies workshop, the ingredients came from Surprise Packs of surplus food from a local bakery and grocery shop, provided by Too Good To Go.
Because Grandma Sita believes that learning to cook with what we have is a delicious way to think globally and act locally – one ingredient at a time. 🌎💚
👣 Grandma Sita Tips: Bake It, Don’t Waste It!
Grandma Sita says: when an ingredient is past its prime, it might just be ready for a new adventure! 🍞🍌 A few simple tricks can help you give leftover bread, brown bananas and seasonal fruit a delicious new life. And with breakies, there is always room for a little creativity!
- ❄️ Freeze your breakies before baking. Shape the mixture into balls and freeze them on a tray. Once frozen, transfer them to a suitable freezer container or bag. When you are ready to bake, let the breakies thaw for around 30 minutes before popping them in the oven. Ready, set, bake!
- 🫐 Follow the seasons. No blueberries? No problem! Swap them for whatever fruit is in season or needs using up. Raspberries, strawberries, apples, pears or other suitable fruit can give your breakies a delicious twist. Grandma Sita says: look at what you have first, then let your ingredients inspire you.
- 🥜 Raid the cupboard! Before buying anything new, have a little look in your pantry. Chocolate chunks, nuts, seeds, dried fruit or other ingredients that need using can all add texture and flavour to your breakies. A nearly empty cupboard can be full of surprises!
- 🍌 Don’t underestimate a brown banana. Overripe bananas are fantastic for plant-based baking. They add natural sweetness and moisture and can help create a lovely soft texture. In some recipes, mashed banana can also be used as an egg substitute. As a general guide, one ripe, mashed banana can replace one egg in suitable recipes.
- 🍞 Give leftover bread a second life. Stale bread does not have to go in the bin. It can become breadcrumbs, croutons, toast – or Grandma Sita’s favourite: breakies! When bread is no longer fresh enough for your sandwich, ask yourself: What could it become instead?
- 👃 Use your senses. A brown banana is very different from a spoiled one! Get into the habit of looking, smelling and checking your ingredients before deciding they belong in the bin. When in doubt about food safety, follow official food-safety guidance.
- 👧🧑 Get little foodies involved. Measuring, mixing, squashing bananas and shaping breakies are all great ways for children to take part in the kitchen. Cooking together can help children become more curious about ingredients and more willing to try new foods. Little hands can make a big difference!
👉 Ready to bake? Try Grandma Sita’s plant-based Breakies recipe and discover more plant-based recipe ideas to cook together.
📗 Did You Know?
🍞 Bread is one of those everyday foods that can easily become food waste. A loaf that is no longer fresh enough for sandwiches can still have plenty of life left in it. Turning stale bread into breadcrumbs, croutons, toast or breakies is a simple way to reduce food waste at home.
According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), around 1.05 billion tonnes of food were wasted globally in 2022 – almost one-fifth of the food available to consumers. And households were responsible for around 60% of global food waste.
🍌🍓 Fruit and vegetables are also particularly vulnerable to food loss. Their short shelf life means that buying only what we need, storing it correctly and using it before it spoils can make a real difference.
🌎 And when we waste food, we waste more than food. We also waste the water, land, energy, labour and other resources used to grow, harvest, transport, store and prepare it. Food loss and waste are associated with around 8–10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. So, what if you could do one small thing today to reduce food waste in your kitchen? Bake, don’t waste!
👩🍳🌱 Ready to bring Little Foodies to your kitchen?
Grandma Sita’s Little Foodies cooking workshops turn cooking into a hands-on adventure for children and their families. Together, we explore plant-based ingredients, learn simple food-waste-saving tricks, get creative with what we have and, most importantly, cook, laugh and eat together! 🧒👩🍳💚
Whether you are looking for a fun family activity, a community workshop or a playful way to introduce children to plant-based cooking and reducing food waste, Grandma Sita is ready to roll up her sleeves and get cooking with you.
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🌎 Want to turn food waste into something wonderful? Explore From Waste to Wow and let Grandma Sita bring creativity, delicious food and a little bit of magic to your next workshop.
👣Grandma Sita Says
What you eat has a footprint. Grandma Sita makes sure it is tasty, planet-friendly, and cooked with tons of love. Because when we learn to look at ingredients differently, yesterday’s bread can become today’s treat, brown bananas can become something delicious, and sustainability can taste great everywhere! 💚🌱