Food Pantry Recipes
Abby likes to cook, try out new recipes, and volunteer
at her local food pantry’s garden. She spent a summer volunteering at
the garden, which led her to the realization that a lot of the garden
produce goes to waste. In talking with the Garden Coordinator, who
would eventually become Abby’s Project Advisor, she discovered one
reason that the produce was going to waste was that patrons of the
cupboard didn’t know how to cook or use the produce. For her Silver
Award project, Abby decided to turn her love for cooking and concern
about food waste into a creative solution — recipe handouts for food
cupboard patrons!
Abby spent hours researching and
testing recipes that incorporated the fresh produce grown in the
pantry garden and other low-cost pre-packaged food items. Knowing that
a lot of the food cupboard patrons didn’t have a lot of time to devote
to cooking, Abby made sure the recipes she was testing were relatively
quick to prepare. She then created cards for her favorite recipes and
gave them to the food pantry, which distributes the recipes with the
produce they give away.
Abby says that she developed her
work ethic more through this project. “I learned that trying to relate
the things that I am doing to something I’m passionate about helps.”
Abby advises other girls to pick something you care about and to start early.
Silver Award Girl Scout, Abby Fiore
23 Mar 2020
