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What if we could find a way to change this?<\/p>\n<p>After brainstorming we had a few ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sell or give away leftover food to people in the community.<\/li>\n<li>Educate students on the importance of not wasting food.<\/li>\n<li>Create competitions at schools, with prices to the class that throws away the least amount of food.<\/li>\n<li>Create an app where students can choose what to eat for lunch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">First steps<\/h2>\n<p>With the ideas about education, competitions, and food apps in mind we started the Mission.<\/p>\n<p>Learning from our <a href=\"https:\/\/science4girls.eu\/vigs\/2021\/12\/21\/this-is-us\/\">previous experience<\/a>, we decided to start our investigation close to us looking at the food at our own school.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with weighing the waste and documenting the food for one week. \u00a0We planned to use the data we collected to set a baseline and analyze what ends up on the students\u2019 plates.<\/p>\n<p>We also interviewed our principal and the chef about the food we get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sweden we get a free lunch every day in school. 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