Our breakfast was great! We all enjoyed it very much. We distributed the leftover vegetables and bread among ourselves so that we didn't have to throw anything away. In preparation for the breakfast, we decided to make some of the products ourselves. We were allowed to produce these products ourselves in the training kitchens during school hours. This was a lot of fun for us.

Our breakfast consisted of a homemade strawberry jam, homemade bread and a homemade yeast plait. In addition, we had a hearty cottage cheese and vegetable sticks made of kohlrabi, carrots, peppers and cucumber and sliced tomatoes. Fruit in the form of fresh strawberries and watermelon could not be missing, of course. The cheese came from the fresh counter of the supermarket in the immediate vicinity of our school and the butter from the organic food store here in Bitburg, since it was only packed in paper.

To make the strawberry jam, we bought strawberries directly from the producer (Erdbeerland Funk), who run a stand in Bitburg. We were able to buy the strawberries there completely without packaging. The required gelling sugar 2:1 we bought in our supermarket. It was packed in paper. The jars for filling the jam came from Mrs. Schreiber and were reused. Cooking the jam was quite simple. The strawberries just needed to be cleaned, then they were chopped up and mixed with the sugar and boiled for 4 minutes until bubbly, then bottled in recycled jars. We actually only had the paper bags of the sugar and the cleaning scraps of the strawberries as residual waste here. We took the cleaning scraps from the strawberries to the organic waste garbage can. There are still some leftover jars of strawberry jam, we "breakfast" these at another time ....

The homemade baked goods produced a little more trash. The yeast we needed for baking came from the Albert bakery in Welschbillig. Here we could buy the yeast we needed in bulk and without packaging. The grains for our bread we could only buy in plastic packaging. We got some salt and vinegar from Mrs. Schares, who also provided us with other tools. The flour came from paper bags. Our trash left over from bread production was paper bags and two small plastic packages. For the yeast plait, we needed butter and eggs in addition to flour and yeast. We could only buy the butter in a composite package. The eggs were available in a paper carton. Thus, we had as garbage a butter package and paper/cardboard.

We bought our breakfast vegetables and fresh fruit completely without packaging and when we went shopping, of course, we had our own bags and baskets with us. When preparing breakfast, we thus only had cleaning waste for the organic garbage can.

At the moment, flavored drinks are "in". We produced this ourselves. In a beverage dispenser, which is reused, we prepared our own water. With mineral water from glass bottles and lemon and lime slices as well as fresh peppermint and lemon balm from the garden, we had a wonderful refreshing drink. The only thing missing were the ice cubes.... (We disposed of the lemon and lime slices and the herbs in the organic waste garbage can).

We still had some slices of cheese from the fresh food counter, they were only wrapped in paper, because the Corona regulations do not yet allow to buy food unpacked here. (We were given a leftover piece of cheese that would have otherwise ended up in the garbage can. Thank you!)

We had to notice during our shopping that especially dairy products like curd and cream cheese are actually never offered without plastic packaging. Yogurt and milk are alternatively already available in glass packaging.

For our quark dip we could only buy plastic packaging. Instead, we were allowed to harvest the other ingredients from Mr. Haeber in the gardeners' herb spiral.

From the kitchen of Mrs. Schares we got cutlery and dishes so we were at this point without waste!!! Thank you very much.

So that we could sit at a nice table, we were allowed to borrow tablecloths and pick flowers from Mr. Haeber's garden.

Looking back, we found our project challenging and beautiful. We had a great breakfast. Unfortunately, we misjudged the amount of vegetables and we had a little too much. We didn't miss the sausages, and we all got really full.

Our project showed us that it is still very difficult to get products without plastic packaging. We had to put a lot of thought into using as little packaging as possible. Unfortunately we also had to realize that products without packaging are usually very expensive and some products are not even available without plastic packaging.

P.S. Information about the campaign can be found at www.you-trition.org.