PENGETAHUAN PENYIMPANAN MAKANAN UNTUK MENGURANGI FOOD WASTE BAGI ANAK USIA DINI DALAM MENUNJANG SDGs

Abstract

This outreach program aims to provide basic knowledge for early childhood or pre-school in supporting one of the achievements in the SDGs, especially achievement number 12, namely the realization of responsible and sustainable consumption and food production. However, the high number of food waste is one of the obstacles to realizing the goals of the SDGs. Providing basic education, awareness program on food nutrition and food management is one of the efforts that can be done to reduce the amount of food waste. However, the education of food waste and food management must be carried out from an early age because the waste of food has been formed early on, so that if awareness of food waste has been built since early, it is hoped that the future consumption patterns can minimize food waste. Education or knowledge about food nutrition in order to reduce food waste is very diverse and wide. For early childhood one of the knowledge that is expected to be mastered is knowing the storage technique well as an effort to reduce food waste early on. For this reason, this service program was held as a form of response to how to reduce food waste and establish behavioral awareness of food waste from an early age. This service uses two main methods, namely socialization in the form of giving stories with pictures to early childhood about food waste and continued with food storage games, where the target of service is given a food prototype and asked to store it in various containers. The results of this service show that, the target of service has a fundamental understanding of the awareness of food waste and knowing how to store the food they consume on a daily basis.