Around The World in Chip Butties

We decided to be creative and innovative choosing a theme, and we chose, Around the World in Chip Butties.

We wanted to approach the challenge from different perspectives. The first one is to create a whole sensorial experience with our residents, stimulating their senses. From the tact, when the residents were baking the bread, to the sight with the rich and colourful presentation of the different sauces. From the smell of the fresh fries to the taste, when the sauce melted with the fresh chips and the bread, and of course the sense of hearing with the sound of the crispy bread when the residents were making their butties. The smiles and surprised faces of our residents to this explosion of different flavours were just priceless.

A second approach was to make it cultural and educative. From America to Asia, from Europa to Australia and Africa, the five continents were represented in a table. As different are the countries in the world, different were our sauces and different types of bread none less than seven types, we used for our Chippy Butties. With every sauce the residents had the opportunity to read very interesting information about the original country where the sauces are from and the ingredients to make them, enjoying throughout flavours the richness of different countries and cultures in the world.

From these approaches, many different possible activities were raised with the residents. They started to reminisce about the places where they had the opportunity to taste the sauce for the very first time, the recipes that they used to cook with, and name their favourite sauces just to name a few. It was the perfect opportunity for the residents to interact and socialise creating very interesting conversations that increased bounds between them when they recognised each other similar tastes and backgrounds.

A whole sensory experience.

Last but not least I would like to thank all the staff that joined us and made that possible, thank you for their support and getting involved making this experience even more incredible.