OzHarvest, the official Australian partner of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on the global Think.Eat.Save – Reduce your Foodprint campaign, hosted the international event, Feeding the 5000 in Sydney’s Martin Place on Monday, 29 July from 12 noon until 2pm.
Australians waste $7.8 billion dollars of food or four million tonnes yearly, the equivalent of throwing away one in every five shopping bags. The event highlighted the ease with which individuals as well as producers, supermarkets and governments can reduce these levels of food waste.
The menu included surplus vegetable curry served with rescued rice, using vegetables provided by local growers from the Sydney Markets, rescued sauce provided by MARS Food. A delicious saved potato and ham hock soup by Martin Boetz of Cooks Co-Op and James Viles of Biota was served with rescued bread and butter pudding served with vanilla Chantilly cream by DessertMakers, Pepe Saya, Brasserie Bread and Heilala Vanilla. Other items included Onion Relish by Three Blue Ducks, salvaged watermelon, tomato and capsicum gazpacho by Hungry Mondays, spiced lemonade by Salvatore Mammoti from 42Bannerman, yoghurt by Kristen Allan at the Full Circle, chapatti by Sydney Sikh community and honey by Urban Beehive and Bees in the City.
Guests were encouraged to take their photo in front of a yellow backdrop and make a pledge and tag it on social media – and commit to reducing food waste.
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