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Is your school also taking part in Food Waste-Free Week 2023?

Published Jun 21, 2023

Did you know that in the Netherlands we never eat a quarter of all the food we produce? All that food is grown, processed, transported, refrigerated and heated. We put a lot of energy into it—energy that warms the Earth. It is therefore all the more important that we waste as little food as possible. So join Food Waste-Free Week from 11 to 17 September. Anyone who eats can take part, including schools!

Is your school also taking part in Food Waste-Free Week 2023?

Get started with the assignment in the Weet wat je eet teaching package

For Food Waste-Free Week, the Netherlands Nutrition Centre has developed a special practical assignment for schools. After the summer holidays, this new assignment will be available in lesson 5, ‘smart buying and storing’, of the Netherlands Nutrition Centre’s Weet wat je eet teaching package. Weet wat je eet is a free online teaching package about nutrition for secondary and secondary vocational education.

Would you like to make the school even more food waste-free?
With the discount code pakket23, you can now order 50 Eetmaatjes, Refrigerator and Freezer Stickers free of charge and without shipping costs from the Netherlands Nutrition Centre’s webshop. These are extremely useful tools that you can hand out to your students during Food Waste-Free Week to help them waste less at home. The Eetmaatje, for example, is an easy-to-use measuring cup that helps you measure the right portions of pasta. The refrigerator sticker shows you what should and should not be stored in the refrigerator for optimum shelf life. You can request these until 14 July at the latest, and the code is valid for the first 200 requests, so be quick!

How do you order these tools from our webshop using the discount code?

1. First log in with your business login details. Don’t have a business account with our webshop yet? Request one here free of charge.

2. You can find the tools in the “Safe and Sustainable” category.

3. Add the tools to your shopping cart.

4. Then enter the discount code pakket23 in the shopping cart and click the “Apply voucher” button. The discount code will not work if you have added other products to your shopping cart in addition to the three food-waste prevention tools.

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