👩🍳 Little Foodies Cooking Workshops are fun, hands-on cooking sessions led by Grandma Sita for kids and families. Inspired by the seasons and celebrations, we create delicious plant-based meals using surplus ingredients—turning food waste into tasty, zero-waste dishes such as spooky snacks, edible holiday trees, and much more. We also offer tailored sessions for schools, after-school programs, associations, and community or cultural organizations. Find out more here: Little Foodies Cooking Workshops.
🌱🎃 In this Halloween special workshop, Grandma Sita had lots of fun creating scary monster faces made from fruits and veggies together with the kids and parents of Forældrenes Børneklub in Copenhagen. All children were welcome with their parents or adult companions, creating a space for intergenerational cooking.
🥦🍎 Grandma Sita’s fun Halloween activity aims to prevent pumpkin waste and encourage little ones to eat more raw fruits and veggies. The fruits, vegetables, and bread were provided by Too Good To Go‘s Surprise Packs, the number one mobile app against food waste. In every cooking workshop, Grandma Sita inspires action by making the most of rescued food to minimize food waste. 🌍 Think globally, act locally!
🎃😱 Looking for a scare this Halloween? Millions of pumpkins are thrown away after Halloween, filling up landfills and contributing to food waste. But the scariest part isn’t the wasted food — when pumpkins decompose in landfills, they produce methane, a greenhouse gas more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Luckily, you can avoid this horror movie by following Grandma Sita’s tips.
👵💚 Grandma Sita’s Tips
✅ Freezing pumpkin scraps in portions makes them easier to store, thaw, and use later.
✅ Save the pumpkin seeds to enjoy raw or roasted, sprinkled on soups and salads. Pumpkin seeds with shells contain twice the fiber of shelled ones. You can eat the shell — it adds a nice crunch to this nutritious snack!
✅ Remember that, like other vegetables, pumpkins are completely compostable.
♻️ Grandma Sita’s way – You can always decorate pumpkins without carving them, which helps keep them fresh until you’re ready to cook them. Or get even more creative by making an edible Jack-o’-lantern out of fruits and veggies instead of buying pumpkins. 🥦🍎
📗 The tradition of carving pumpkins for Halloween comes from an Irish myth about a man named “Stingy Jack.” In Ireland and Scotland, turnips were traditionally used during Halloween, but immigrants who arrived in North America began using pumpkins, which were native to the region. That’s why the carved pumpkin lantern is known as the Jack-o’-lantern, a classic symbol of Halloween.
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Celebrating Halloween in an eco-friendly and zero-waste way is not only achievable and affordable, but it is also a significant step to reduce our environmental footprint while enjoying this popular holiday. Win-win!
