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KOCH DOCH! offers
● tasty and nourishing vegan Hot Pot (local and international recipes), lacto- and glutenfree;
● sourcing, organizing and buying the ingredients from organic, regional and seasonal farming;
● providing a continuous example of good practice of sustainability: cooking one healthy, tasty main course for a number of people in one kitchen, thus keeping waste to a minimum, promoting the conscious consumption of food products and the careful use of electricity and water. Also, KOCH DOCH! uses ingredients, herbs and spices that were once typical for the region but which went out of fashion despite their wonderful tastes and healthy properties.
● leading the co-cooking in the kitchen; including hands-on experience and foodlore, information on sustainability and nutrition.
Participants share their experience of responsible resource management in the process of cooking, at work and in the economy in general.

Further, the positive influence of workplace health promotion has long been proved for human resources development and is an important tool when facing business challenges.
By promoting community lunches in companies and co-working spaces, we demonstrate a low threshold way of fostering community building. This supports decision makers with their implementation of simple team communication.
By cooking simple recipes in 2-3 big pots and by limiting lunch time to just one hour, we reduce the waste of water (for cleaning) and energy (practically no re-heating).
During processes we use public transport (shopping and delivering). 80% of our ingredients are ordered via food co-ops, reducing packaging waste to a minimum. We order the amount of fresh goods according to our needs, which also reduces our food waste to a minimum.
We set examples. Our focus on responsible sourcing and waste reduction is directly visible and therefore becomes „contagious“ to those who join our activities.
We spread the news. During community cooking and community lunches we use local products and tell our participants about it. We disseminate information on farmers and community supported agriculture (CSA) who are our suppliers. We experiment with newly discovered/cultivated regional fruit, vegetables, salad, grains ...