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Fun Activity 21 st

Century #Life Skills and Values
Skills #Communication
Food Wastage in the Locality

Visit 10-20 families in your locality/society/colony with your friend/sibling and ask how
much food is usually leftover at night. Record the data in the table given.

Food Wastage/Leftover Chapatis rice Pulses Vegetable

Family 1 2 50 g 100 mL 20 g

Generally, most of the leftover food goes to waste and only a small portion, if any, is
reused or shared.

Are you surprised to see the data?
Display the collected information through different charts and graphs. Bring them into
the class and discuss:
• What do you think about food wastage?

• How much food wastage was recorded in total?
• Which food item had the highest amount of wastage?
• How can we reduce the wastage of food?
• What can we do with leftover food?

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