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Sustainable Food Drag and Drop
You can make a sustainable meal - without moving, choping, cooking or serving!
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This online exercise aims to help you:

  • Balance sustainability issues
  • Recognise the significance of carbon & water counting
  • Start promoting more sustainable food

Click for more from our Sustainable Food Guide on - Climate Change
- Health, visit our Nutrition issues
- Virtual Water, see Water issues

Task 1
Decide which meal to check out.
Type the name of the meal in the title box

Task 2
Use your mouse to drag each of the foods you ate around the plate.
For each graphic the carbon & water figures represent one portion.

Add up your scores for water and carbon, and how many of each colour you used.
Each food image has three indicators of key elements of sustainability:
Carbon
Health
Water
Amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO2e) in Grammes emitted during production per single unit of product
Source: MBS (pdf). More on CO2e 		Whether red /amber/green in the Traffic light system of labelling.

What's the traffic light system?		 Global average Virtual Water content in litres, embedded per unit of produce
Source: WWF (pdf) .
More Virtual Water figures
We are trying to build in many foods for several meals, however the available data on virtual water content and CO2e appears limited.
PLEASE email us with any facts/figures you may have, together with their sources - thank you.

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Task 3
Change at least two of the foods to make your meal more 'sustainable', enter your exchanges in the box below

Task 4
Discuss your meal choices with a friend.

Press Ctrl and F5 together on your keyboard to reset the graphics so you can have another go.

For more on - Carbon Counting visit our Carbon Counting Toolkit

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