Food Tech Help

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This is a question with probably a very basic answer but how does your child take their food tech ingredients to school in the most lightweight but environmentally friendly way?

For example Ds has a recipe that requires a pinch of salt and a sprinkle of cinnamon. How should he pack this? My jar of cinnamon is more than half full so I can't just give him that and my container for salt is even bigger.

I haven't got enough Tupperware to put each ingredient in and I'd rather not use freezer bags each week. Ds weighs the ingredients out to save on weight (he doesn't want to carry 500g of flour in when he's only going to use 150g etc) also he worries that more ingredients = more chance of leakage.

Do the school not provide those bits? We had to bring all the major things for mine - flour, butter etc, but the school would do anything less than a sprinkle.

How about one of those pill dispenser pots? Different sections for each dose of pill - should be small enough for that type of ingredient.

Our school provides ingredients for a small one off fee at the start of term

Sistema do small screw lid pots that might work

Mine just took the jar, used what they needed and brought it home again

I invested in various Sistema pots., they come in various sizes, and work well (until they get left in a random classroom afterwards and thrown out).

Eggs transport well in either a cut down egg box, or nestled into a bag/pot of flour.

I put it all into a large container big enough to carry the made article home in, and provide an additional bag to bring all the pots back.

Just starting y10 Food tech GCSE.

You could always read the recipe and see what goes together. So if the baking powder and salt and cinnamon get put in the flour you can just put it in the flour.

Wish I could pay the school but apparently lots of parents won't pay because they think schools should supply everything from their budget. 😡

I only have an ingredient list rather than the whole recipe. I can make an educated guess about what he'll do with the ingredients but I'm obviously not 100%.

I never thought about a pill dispenser as a container- that is a good idea.

I will pay better attention to Tupperware solutions. I have the obligatory random bits and bobs but they are all pretty similar in volume.

You need to buy a load of clippy boxes, especially tiny ones. Actually mine never took salt and pepper, must have used schools', but boxes still vital for other ingredients. Ds1 did GCSE food so I was in for the long haul.

The more irritating one is the '1 tablespoon of oil', as you need to measure it out, and then get it into a container.
(Or send more in than needed and hope the rest comes home again.)

I bought these Take away sauce pots to use for small ingredients.

Ds is in y9 and just starting GCSE too. In y7/8 I winged it but wanted a proper solution to cope with the next 3 years.

The small takeaway pots look perfect.

Sistema tiny screw lid pots for pinches of things.

Another vote for sistema screw lid pots, put oil in them last year, eggs wrapped in a bit of tissue and small quantities of ingredients

For the pinch of salt and pepper I uhhh pick up a few extra little sachets in cafes/pubs/McDonald's for example.

We mixed salt into flour - actually salt was never allowed so we cheated but we did do a bit of premixing, zip lock bags, clipped boxes and the school provided some small bits. I’m so glad we’re done with it - such a bloody faff.

My daughter is yr 7 so we've yet to need to do this yet but would something like this work? It was from Hobbycraft (they have smaller too)!

I kept all our pesto jars and spice/herb jars for ages. I used them to put in oil/salt/herbs/milk etc that the children needed for food tech. It worked really well and I didn't need to buy plastic. I used plastic pots for things where they needed a lot of stuff but then it was just the pots we needed anyway iyswim.

I had a tiny bottle which was really handy for the small amounts of oil.

To be honest, I really wanted to just send in a full bottle of oil at the beginning of term, to save the hassle of sending in a bit of oil each week. Same with salt.
£1 per student would cover loads of bits and bobs. Drives me mad having to carry in tiny bits.