Your Leftovers, Their Gourmet

Giving these leftover new “life”, keeping the students from starving at home, what a good way, to make use of the leftover foods, from the Front Page Sections, translated…

The leftovers are not just the problems of the families, but a problem for the lunches at school too!

In the class, whenever there’s the fried chicken legs that the students didn’t like to eat, and, the chicken legs just, stacked up inside the lunch boxes, in the end, they’d, ended up, in the leftover bins.  Then, the stewed pork chops, the fried fish steaks, the chicken rolls, couldn’t find their escapes from being thrown out too, for the kids in the city, if they don’t like it, then, they don’t have to eat it.

not my photo…

Remember how I grew up, the meats only showed up on the special occasions of celebration or holidays, it’s a leftover from offering to the gods and ancestors, but, it’d become, gourmet to the kids.  The grains of rice that accidentally dropped from the bowls are all, picked back up and eaten up, there would be leftovers, let alone, thrown away foods.

And so, the life education lessons started, with the leftovers we have in the class every single day.  There was a student whose mother was a migrant, after the parents were divorced, he’d lived with his father, who was handicapped, and, they’d relied on the sustenance received by the father to get by.  And, I’d had the students to pack up the leftovers from lunch up separately, and refrigerate it at the office, and after school, I’d asked the students to accompany, to help get the leftovers home for supper, from Monday through Friday.

not my mac & cheese…

Once, the student brought home a bag of quarter legs for supper, and after her younger sister finished the food, she’d asked, “Older sister, what will you bring for me tomorrow?”, her childish words affirmed, that this, would be, a way better way, to deal with the leftovers, to save it for someone else who need it, and I’d gotten the students involved in helping out too.

Leftovers, are not a problem, if you can use it well, then, it’s, a resource.

So, this, is a teacher’s belief, put into practice, because the leftovers are going to be thrown out anyway, and so, the instructor decided, to allow the student to take it home, to feed her family, that way, the food didn’t go to waste, and, the children got a fulfilling meal too.