March 18, 2021
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
For St. Patrick’s Day the VSI team is going green for the environment!
Maria is re-purposing her used coffee grounds to make a DIY coffee body scrub!
Instructions
- Mix together 1/2 cup fresh ground coffee and 1/2 cup brown sugar.
- Add 1/2 cup coconut oil into the coffee mixture and 1 tsp. vanilla extract.
- Mix until well combined.
- Now you have a homemade body scrub!
Aine is selling some of her old clothes on Depop!
Helen is starting an online course about food waste and management found here: https://tinyurl.com/2m3ej3e7
Senka is having a meat free day and is eating a traditional Serbian dish made from potatoes and oats called Bannock!
Ingredients:
- 225gr mixture of soft flour (oat, rye, black wheat)
- 3 small spoons of baking powder
- 1 small spoon of salt
- 1 small spoon of pepper
- 85gr butter
- 225gr cold mashed potatoes
- 2 eggs (1 in dough, another one for coating the bannocks)
Recipe:
- Roll out the dough to roughly 1 cm thickness, and make bannocks.
- Put bannocks on a baking paper.
- Coat bannocks with beaten egg and sprinkle seeds (sunflower, seasame, etc) on the top.
- Bake at 200 Celsius degrees 20 min.
Mateja created her very own refurbished and recycled cardboard box that is used as a bin in place of a plastic bin to help cut down on the use of plastic!
