1. How do we eat apples?

2. New Zealanders throw away around 22 million apples every year
New Zealanders throw away around 22 million apples every year. Why do you think we waste so many apples?
Tell learners New Zealanders throw away around 22 million apples every year. This is just families and children not supermarkets or farms. Why do you think we waste so many apples?
Answers could include:
They bruise or go brown
They are too soft
They are too big and we can’t finish eating them
People buy too many and they can’t eat them up in time

3. Have you ever had an apple when you have only taken a few bites and left the rest? Why?

4. How do you eat your apple?

5. What can we do to waste less apples?
Eat from the top
Ask our parents to buy us smaller apples if we can’t finish large ones
Share our apple with our friends if it’s too big
Ask our parents to give us apple pieces instead of whole apples
Eat the rest of the apple after school
Turn it into a smoothie or make a toasted sandwich with apples

6. Enquiry Learning: What can we eat?
Fruit: stem/ skin/ flesh/ core/ pips/ stone

7. Banana peel cake https://lovefoodhatewaste. co
Banana peel cake Banana peel curry

8. flesh / skin / leaves / stalk /roots /seeds
Vegetable:
flesh / skin / leaves / stalk /roots /seeds

9. Broccoli stalk fritters https://lovefoodhatewaste. co
Broccoli stalk fritters Cauliflower leaf pesto