Campaign groups cook up waste food banquet
Three-course Valentine's meals have been created from unwanted food at a pop-up restaurant in London
Over the past week, campaign groups FareShare and The Forgotten Feast have been cooking up three-course meals from waste food in a pop-up kitchen at FareShare's warehouse in Bermondsey, south London.
Led by chef Tom Hunt, they have fed 90 paying customers at each of the four Valentine-themed sittings. The profits have been matched by homeless charity StreetSmart, raising enough money to pay for 28,000 meals to be distributed to vulnerable people across the UK.
The menu included dishes such as roasted squash soup with wild horseradish and herb ricotta, poachers’ stew of hare, pheasant and squirrel with a saffron and pine nut picada, and chocolate and beetroot truffle cake.
The Forgotten Feast has previously used waste food to cook at events such as Feeding the 5,000 in Trafalgar Square and the Mayor of London’s Thames Festival.
Meanwhile, a new initiative in London called Plan Zheroes is aiming to distribute waste food from supermarkets, grocers, hotels, restaurants and even film crews to charities.
Over 50 charities have already signed up and the scheme will be officially launched on Wednesday night (15 February).
Last week, Sainsbury's announced it was changing its food labelling to advise people to freeze food by the use-by date, not on the day of purchase.
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