Principle of sustainability: With pancakes and wraps into the future

Created: 11/17/2022, 12:42 p.m

By: Joerg Domke

The 13 P seminar participants plus teachers yesterday on the last day of sale for their specially created pancakes.

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How can the topic of sustainability be implemented in a P seminar at a high school?

With pancakes and wraps, the answer could be.

Markt Schwaben -

There was a lot of baking going on in some families of Markt Schwaben high school girls from Q 12, who will be preparing for their Abitur in the coming year over the next few days, weeks and months.

It's about "Ella's pancakes," to be precise.

A thin pancake, similar to crêpes, rolled up like a wrap and filled with a hearty spread that the 13 students in this current P seminar bought from a delicatessen in neighboring Parsdorf.

Two of these pancakes make one serving.

For the price of three euros, Luiza Rusp, Kirsten Hagemann (both 17) and the other young women offer the snack during the breaks at the high school in the kiosk in the small auditorium.

The amount is well thought out.

After all, it makes no sense to offer a meal break at a price that hardly anyone is willing to pay.

Sustainability is more than just the environmental aspect

To be more precise, the seminar is called “World Savior”.

That sounds a bit exaggerated at first glance, but it's not wrong.

The declared goal of the P-Seminar is namely to establish the principle of sustainability at one's own school.

At the same time, to convince as many people as possible of the advantages of sustainable nutrition and - also not entirely unimportant - to find out first of all whether something like this is even accepted in the school community.

In any case, the message from the high school students in the background is already clearly formulated: Your food, your future.

Your food, your future.

Tina Ronge, who accompanies the seminar as a teacher, never tires of emphasizing that sustainability is not just about environmental aspects, as is still widely assumed.

Social, economic and political aspects also played a role, according to the chemistry and geography teacher.

One can only speak of real sustainability if all aspects are sufficiently taken into account, she says.

So how do you meet all these requirements in a project that can also be implemented within the school if possible?

Not an easy task, which the 13 seminar participants initially faced.

But then they came up with the concrete idea of ​​offering products for the school breaks that meet all the essential criteria: the ingredients should come from the region (i.e. combined with short delivery routes), be sold at a price that is still generally accepted, but at the same time also after should be calculated according to strict business rules.

And last but not least, for purely practical reasons, the snacks should be easy to prepare in the canteen or at the school kiosk.

Cooperation with the Wolf-Mühle and the canteen operator

As the two Q 12 students reported during a visit to the EZ, the pancakes and a healthy organic wrap had crystallized out.

It is currently being determined who of the two will be the real favorite at the Franz-Marc-Gymnasium and who will possibly even have a longer future.

Pupils have the opportunity to vote online on the school website.

Incidentally, there you can also track what lies behind the principle of sustainability.

A short video accompanying the seminar was specially made and can be viewed by anyone.

In any case, the special regionality is easy to follow.

The ingredients required for both offers, such as milk, flour, vegetables, herbs, cheese or eggs, come from an organic farm in Neuching or from the Wolf mill in Forstinning.

Kathrin Nagy, manager there and trained restaurant manager or industrial clerk, also actively supported the young P seminar ladies with questions about calculations and preparation.

A not insignificant support was and is also the canteen operator Christoph Sowinski.

Tina Ronge indicated that experiences will first be pooled, everything discussed together and then a decision made as to whether wraps and/or pancakes will continue to be offered as an alternative.

But Thursday was the last pancake sales day.

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