Flexible Recipes: Savory
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Duration: 
90 min
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Contributor

The Edible Schoolyard Project
Berkeley, CA

Summary: 
In this lesson, students explore how flexible recipes – such as a frittata – can be one strategy for using a wide variety of foods in order to reduce personal food waste.
Student Learning Goals & Objectives: 
  • Learn ways to introduce repurposed foods, leftovers, and food nearing their expiration into new recipes.
  • Understand how flexible recipes differ from precise recipes.
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Teaching Notes: 

Before offering this lesson, educators may want to first teach the skills covered in the Knife Safety and How To: Cut Vegetables lessons.

Contributors: 

"Cheesy Potato and Vegetable Frittata" by Emily Carlin is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.