The #Stop malbaratar menjar [Stop wasting food] challenge was aimed at raising awareness among children and young people about the importance of reducing or avoiding food waste, as well as to contribute to creating a family awareness that helps to adopt consumption based on the value of food, care and environmental responsibility. The challenge consisted of carrying out a "self-audit" of food waste in the school canteen, intending to make children aware of the amount of food that is thrown away in the school. The children carried out diagnostic actions (separating wasted food into different containers, weighing it and recording data) to raise awareness of the fact that food is a valuable resource that must be managed and consumed with the utmost care. This action is also part of the measures of LAW 3/2020, of 11 March, on the prevention of food losses and food waste. A total of 28 schools and 1120 children took part in the challenge.    

Article 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations, 1989) recognises the role of the media in disseminating information to children. It establishes the State's obligation to take measures to protect them from information and material injurious to their well-being. In this context, the collective action of this challenge consisted in creating posters with different messages about misleading advertising. In each educational or leisure centre, the children chose a representative image and uploaded it on social media. Together with the gymkhana and the collective action No m'ho empasso! [I don't swallow it!], this activity involved 78 educational centres and 40 educational leisure spaces, with some 18,000 participating children and youngsters.

Article 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations, 1989) recognises the role of the media in disseminating information to children. It establishes the State's obligation to take measures to protect them from information and material injurious to their well-being. In this context, the Gymkhana #Nom'hompasso [I don't swallow it] took place, aiming at reflecting on food advertising and how it can negatively affect our eating habits. The gymkhana proposed a series of playful tests to encourage critical thinking. Some of them were:

• Ball-swallowing: in this "human ball-swallowing" activity, the children had to collect various messages about misleading advertising and evaluate them.
• Lies to the ground: through a bowling game, the children were tasked with deciphering a hidden message about misleading advertising.
• Label catcher: the traditional "catch the flag" game served to raise children's awareness of the importance of fairer labelling.
• Re-benchmark yourself: the last activity consisted of an evaluation and vote on food consumption and advertising, after having worked on all the material and content of the other activities.

The food system is one of the main causes of the current environmental and social crisis. It is urgent that we change the way we produce, distribute, and consume food. As a result of this problem, the collective challenge #EmComprometo aimed to reflect on the food system and propose possible solutions to change it. This challenge was an invitation to people of all ages to express how they thought they could take action: consuming local products or reducing plastic and disposable packaging, food waste, or the consumption of ultra-processed food or animal protein. The challenge began in November 2022 and is still active. You can take part by visiting the Menja, Actua, Impacta [Eat, Act, Impact] exhibition in El Prat de Llobregat. So far, around 75 people have taken part. And you, do you want to commit yourself?

A children's participation project was carried out in schools and educational leisure spaces, in which children proposed recipes linked to healthy and sustainable food that they liked the most. A total of 400 schools took part. Of the more than 100 recipes received, 37 were selected to become part of the Recipe Book to Change the World. The children's recipes were completed with 13 recipes from nutritionists and other professionals from the Fundesplai team. The proposed recipes are easy, seasonal, healthy, sustainable and attractive to children. The recipe book can be consulted at this link and the original recipes sent by the children can be seen in the annex.  

Article 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations, 1989) recognises the role of the media in disseminating information to children. It establishes the State's obligation to take measures to protect them from information and material injurious to their well-being. In this context, a two-day activity was held aiming at reflecting on food advertising oriented to children and young people. The participants collected the opinions and claims of children and, as a result, they wrote a manifesto. The document consisted of a section common to all the education centres where regulations on food advertising oriented to children and youngsters were demanded and a specific section in which the participants wrote their contributions.  The activity had visibility in social networks by means of the hashtag #Nomhoempasso. Together with the gymkhana and the reading of the manifesto No m'ho empasso! [I don't swallow it!], this activity involved 78 educational centres and 40 educational leisure spaces, with some 18,000 participating children and youngsters.

To celebrate the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, a collective challenge for families was held on 29 September 2022. It was proposed that they leave a comment on Fundesplai's Instagram account, specifically on a post against food waste. Twenty-one people took part in the challenge, leaving suggestions such as planning meals well, avoiding overbuying, making jams or smoothies with ripe fruit, or freezing food.