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PEARfect opportunity to help on Friday or Sunday!

Did you know that if food waste was a country, it would be the third largest carbon emitter after USA and China? 

We’re looking for a few good hands to help us raise awareness of food waste at the momentous Climate March in London on Sunday! We are excited to be a part of this event, and want to show folks how food waste contributes to climate change. 

  We’ll be spreading the message this in the most delicious way possible and will be giving away over 1000 PEARfectly delicious pears that would have been wasted because they didn’t fit the strict cosmetic standard imposed by retailers. 

  Our volunteers went to the farm and gleaned over 2 tonnes of fruit which we’ll share with those at the march and the rest will be donated to people in need. 

  So... we need your help in one of two ways:

1. On Friday (19 Sep), from 11 am to 1 pm tying the leaflets to the pear stems, and

2. Helping with the pear giveway at the Climate March on Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm. We’ll then be joining the march with everyone else. 

  Please let us know if you can help with a quick reply to lauren@feeding5k.org! 

Thanks so much and see you at the March!

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French Lawmakers are trying to make it illegal for big supermarkets to throw away food

  Photo: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP

63 MP’s from across party lines have joined together to propose a bill to fight against food waste in France.  Describing consumption as the scourge of our society, “fléau de notre société de consommation,” the elected officials proposed to stop allowing each French supermarket to throw out an average of 200 tonnes of food every year.  The bill, would force supermarkets over 1000m² to donate unused food to redistribution charities such as food banks.  The measure if passed will be an important step against curbing the more than 90 million tonnes of food wasted every year across the EU.

Read The Telegraph Article Here: http://goo.gl/7NVWyd

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First Disco Veggie in Japan

Feeding the 5k is super excited to have collaborated with Slow Food Youth Network Tokyo on a #DiscoVeggie to combat #Foodwaste.   More than 130 kilograms of food that otherwise would have been wasted were rescued, prepared and shared among about 300 participants at Koenji Station on July 21, 2014.   Over 40 volunteers and members of the public came together to wash, peel, chop and cook fresh but unwanted fruit and vegetables that would otherwise have been discarded: blemished broccoli, supersized zucchini, excess onions, peppers, celery, cucumbers, mushrooms and other top quality produce coming from local farmers. The meal was prepared and distributed for free at the sound of music provided by DJs, encouraging a dance celebration while the community worked to organize tasting activities and with excess ‘groceries’ given away to participants.

(photographs by Minli Wu)

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Tristram Stuart announced as National Geographic Emerging Explorer

PHOTOGRAPH BY MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

The National Geographic Society has selected its 2014 class of Emerging Explorers. Feeding the 5000's founder Tristram Stuart has been chosen among a group of 14 visionary, young trailblazers from around the globe whose innovative ideas and accomplishments are making a significant difference in the world.  

Tristram's worldwide work documenting and exposing food waste shows how solving the food waste scandal is one of the simplest ways to reduce pressure on the environment. 

Read Tristram's National Geographic Profile

National Geographic Q+A with Tristram 

Read more about Emerging Explorers

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The Disco Revolution Against Food Waste hits Bulgaria

The revolution against food waste comes to Bulgaria this week where the country's first ever Disco Soup will be taking place in Sofia on the 17th of May at 5pm. The Disco Soup is being organised in association with the Bulgarian Food Bank and will be highlighting the delicious and fun solutions to the food waste crisis. 

The next day Feeding the 5000 founder Tristram Stuart will be giving a TED talk at TEDxBG 

For more information visit http://tedxbg.org/tedx2014/

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We Are BBC Food and Farming Award Winners!

Our three campaigns: Feeding the 5000, The Pig Idea and Gleaning Network UK are honoured to have been selected as winners of the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Award for Best Initiative in British Food. You can listen to the entire awards show here. Feeding the 5000 is on at 37 minutes.

We would like to extend a tremendous thank you to our thousands of volunteers whom without it would not have been possible. 

Our three campaigns are truly humbled as other nominees included the fantastic Community Shop, a social supermarket offering surplus food, advice and training to people on benefits at very low cost. Community Shop uniquely combines environmental, social and business objectives to tackle food waste, food poverty and getting people out of the poverty trap. 

Sainsbury was also nominated for their important leadership and work in sustainable fish sourcing. 

Since their beginnings, Feeding the 5000, The Pig Idea and Gleaning Network UK have been working hard to tackle the global food waste scandal. As founder, Tristram Stuart pointed out during the awards ceremony last week, "Feeding the 5000 is being adopted as a way of launching national food waste campaigns in lots of different countries.  It has become a global movement and given everyone the realization that we have the power to change the food system." 

Thanks again to all those who have supported us. We look forward to continuing our work toward putting a stop to global food waste. 

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The Food Waste Revolution Hits Dusseldorf

We are please to announce we will be collaborating tonight with local food waste activists at Slow Food Youth Network Dusseldorf, Foodsharing and Taste of Heimat on the Schnippeldisko at 6:00 PM. There will be chopping, as well as sharing and eating the delicious food that would otherwise have gone to waste, all to the BEET of party music. To find out more visit the Facebook link here. 

  Feeding the 5000 is also delighted to be a part of the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s two-day SAVE FOOD Congress, which kicked off on 7 May in Dusseldorf.  Together with stakeholders from across the sector, including our partners at EU FUSIONS, the congress is showcasing solutions to combat global food waste. 

In the photo above, Tristram Stuart discusses food waste on farms, feeding pigs and solutions that go beyond packaging. For lunch, we  served up a delicious meal for all participants and visitors of the congress made from fresh, top-quality  food that would otherwise have gone to waste. The lunch was even broadcast on German television. Watch Managing Director Niki Charalampopoulou on ARD1 here. 

The Congress is proving a great opportunity to showcase the delicious solutions to food waste to a wide range of high profile delegates and decision makers. Find out more here.

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Eat-In! Bristol

Together with the Sustainable Food Trust and Slow Food International, we will be taking a stab out of food waste at Eat-In! Bristol on Monday 5th May from 12pm-4pm. The Eat-in, a spontaneous public pot-luck dinner, will celebrate the values of good, clean and fair food for all. The meal will feature fresh produce that would have otherwise gone to waste from The Gleaning Network UK. Every year, the Gleaning Network UK saves tonnes of fresh fruits and vegetables that are wasted on UK farms, mainly because they do not match strict cosmetic standards set by food retailers.

The event will gather farmers, food producers, chefs, press and a hungry public to share a meal together, listen to world-class guest-speakers, and share ideas, thoughts, projects and plans that will among other things, contribute to putting a stop to global food waste. If you are interested in joining please bring a contribution such as a dish, jar of jam, veg from your plot or anything else that you feel tells a story of your relationship to food.

More information about the event can be found here.

To confirm your reservation please go to the Eventbrite here. 

If you can bring produce, cook, speak, sing or volunteer on the day, please contact tessa@sustainablefoodtrust.org or call her on 07828700241. 

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Race Against Waste

Giving food waste a run for its money!

Edd Colbert, the former campaign coordinator for The Pig Idea, has recently launched a new campaign to highlight the nutritional value of food that is thrown away across the world. To do so he is training for the Leeds Half Marathon and will be fuelling himself completely on food that would have otherwise been wasted. 

Whether he's out bin-diving or setting up relationships with local grocers to collect their surplus food in Leeds, he'll be documenting his movements on Facebook and Twitter with photo and video updates.

The race doesn't stop there though! Edd is looking for more runners to get involved to help fight food waste and fundraise for various food waste initiatives around the country. If you fancy living off food waste and getting fit at the same time then drop him an email at edd.colbert@gmail.com.

Edd is also fundraising for The Real Junk Food Project in Leeds and you can sponsor him via the Project's Indiegogo campaign here. Simply donate and leave a comment saying "I'm giving food waste a run for its money!"

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Feeding the 5000 in Brussels!

On 1.4.14 Feeding the 5000 held a hugely successful event in Brussels at the Marché Aux Herbes near the Grand Place. Together with our partners we served up over 6,000 delicious lunches all made from ingredients that otherwise would have gone to waste to highlight the positive solutions to the global food waste scandal.  

 Here's a look at the day in photos by Julie Feyaerts. 

You can view more photos on our Facebook page. 

Following the event on 2.4.14, Feeding the 5000 attended the European Parliament’s Sustainable Food Conference to discuss the Commission's imminent food policy and what needs to be done to tackle the global food waste scandal. 

A heartfelt thank you for a great event to all our partners at: 11.11.11, The Belgian Federation of Food Banks, The Center for Research and Information for the Consumer Organisations (CRIOC), Disco Soupe, EU FUSIONS, Eurotoques, Green up Film Festival, Komosie,Velt,  Oxfam, Slow Food, Slow Food Youth Network, and Social Groceries Flanders.

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Feeding the 5000 Brussels

Less than a week to go! Help stop global food waste. Enjoy a free lunch made from ingredients that otherwise would have gone to waste on 1.4.14 in Brussels. Spread the word. 

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Feeding the 5000 Brussels Press Release

Our press release is here. Find the English, Flemish and French versions with all necessary information by following the dropbox link. 

For more information contact Lauriane Giet at:

Email: Lauriane.Giet@bm.com 

Tel: +32 2 743 66 31

Tel: +32 497 77 41 35 

Free Food to Fight against Food Waste

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Watch Global Waste and Vote in the Green Up Film Festival

Less than a week until Feeding the 5000 Brussels. We'll be serving up a delicious lunch from ingredients that would otherwise go to waste, including veg from the global South.

Keen to learn more about the global food waste scandal before our big event?

The Green Up Film Festival is hosting the trailer to our documentary Global Waste. The film looks at fruits, vegetables, breads, meats, fish, grains and ready-made meals, travelling from Europe to Costa Rica, with stops in Pakistan, the United States and Japan. Viewers are introduced to key players throughout the food system including: producers, industrialists, distributors and consumers. We see distressing examples of waste, but also inspiring innovations and solutions for making the most of the food we produce.

Watch it here and vote for it afterwards. If our film gets enough votes it will be screened as part of their next film festival in April.

And don't forget to spread the word about Feeding the 5000 Brussels on 1.4.14. 

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Feeding the 5000 is Coming to Brussels!

Click here for French poster

Click here for Flemish poster

We are delighted to announce that Feeding the 5000 is coming to Brussels where we will be serving up a delicious lunch made entirely from fresh food that would otherwise go to waste to over 5000 people in order to highlight the global food waste scandal and the available solutions.

Feeding the 5000 Brussels is bringing together an alliance of organisations at all levels to raise awareness of the scale of food waste in Belgium, the EU and globally and promote the solutions which exist.  On the 1st of April 2014 we will provide a delicious free feast for thousands of members of the public, sourced entirely from fresh, top-quality produce that would otherwise go to waste, including misshapen potatoes, wonky carrots and oversized aubergines. It will be a spectacular public celebration of the positive, win-win solutions to food waste. 

Feeding the 5000 Brussels and its surrounding campaign are being organised  partnership with Feeding the 5000 and a range of organisations working to tackle food waste in Belgium and internationally. These include EU FUSIONS, the Federation of Belgian Food Banks, Oxfam, Slow Food, Slow Food Youth Network Brussels, Disco Soupe Brussels, 11.11.11., CRIOC, Velt, KOMOSIE and Social Groceries Flanders, as well as the Flemish Minister for Poverty Reduction.

The event is being supported by WWF, Food Sharing and Food for Life Global.

Feeding the 5000 Brussels needs volunteers! If you want to help chop the vegetables, spread the word or help out in any other way, please fill in the form:

English Flemish French

Click for Google map of location

Facebook: Feeding5000

Twitter: @feeding5k

#F5000BXL

Fill Bellies not Bins! 

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Feeding the 5000 zal voor meer dan 5000 mensen een overheerlijke lunch serveren, volledig samengesteld uit vers voedsel dat anders verloren zou gaan, om het wereldwijde schandaal van de voedselverspilling en de voorhanden zijnde oplossingen in de schijnwerper te zetten.

Feeding the 5000 Brussel is een verbond van organisaties op alle niveaus die samenwerken om het bewustzijn van de hoeveelheid voedselverspilling in België, de EU en op wereldschaal te verbeteren en de bestaande oplossingen te promoten. Op 1 april 2014 zullen wij duizenden burgers een lekker feestmaal aanbieden, volledig gebaseerd op verse producten van topkwaliteit die anders weggegooid zouden worden, inclusief raar gevormde aardappelen, wortelen met vreemde kronkels en reusachtige aubergines. Het wordt een spectaculair volksfeest dat zal uitgaan van positieve win/win-oplossingen tegen de voedselverspilling. Feeding the 5000 heeft al evenementen georganiseerd in andere steden zoals Londen, Parijs en Amsterdam, en daarmee op nationaal niveau acties tegen het voedsel­verspillingsschandaal op gang gebracht.

Feeding the 5000 Brussel en de hele campagne errond worden georganiseerd door een partnerschap van Feeding the 5000 en een hele resem organisaties die de voedselverspilling in België en op internationaal vlak effectief willen aanpakken. Onder de partners vinden we o.a. de Federatie van Belgische Voedselbanken, Oxfam, Slow Food, Slow Food Youth Network Brussels, Disco Soupe Brussels, Velt, KOMOSIE, het OIVO, 11.11.11. en Sociale Kruidenier Leuven.

Het evenement wordt ondersteund door het Vlaams Minister vanArmoedebestrijding.

Strijd mee tegen de voedselverspilling!

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Feeding the 5000 servira un délicieux lunch pour plus de 5000 personnes, composé d’aliments frais qui autrement auraient été perdus. Une manière de dénoncer le scandale mondial du gaspillage alimentaire et de prouver que  que des solutions existent.

Feeding the 5000 Bruxelles est une alliance d’organisations à tous les niveaux qui collaborent pour améliorer la conscience de l’envergure du gaspillage alimentaire en Belgique, dans l’UE et dans le monde, et pour promouvoir les solutions qui existent. Le 1er avril 2014, nous offrirons à des milliers de personnes un repas festif et gourmand, entièrement basé sur des produits frais de qualité qui autrement seraient jetés : des pommes de terre déformées, des carottes tordues et de toutes les tailles, des aubergines gigantesques. Ce sera un spectacle populaire, partant d’un esprit positif et de solutions gagnant/gagnant pour le gaspillage alimentaire. Feeding the 5000 a déjà organisé des événements dans d’autres villes, à savoir Londres, Paris et Amsterdam, pour y lancer au niveau national des actions contre le scandale du gaspillage alimentaire.

Feeding the 5000 Bruxelles et sa campagne sont organisées par un partenariat entre Feeding the 5000 et toute une série d’organisations qui s’efforcent d’agir  au quotidien contre le gaspillage alimentaire en Belgique et dans le monde. Parmi les partenaires, on retrouve notamment la Fédération des Banques alimentaires de Belgique, Oxfam, Slow Food, Slow Food Youth Network Brussels, Disco Soupe Bruxelles, Velt, KOMOSIE, le CRIOC, 11.11.11., et Social Groceries Flanders.

L’événement est soutenu par le Ministre flamand de la Lutte contre la Pauvreté

Venez rejoindre la lutte contre le gaspillage alimentaire!

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Brussels Gleaning

Leeks, leeks everywhere, but these were all to big (according to strict retail cosmetic standards that is)!  In the lead up to Feeding the 5000 Brussels on 1 April, our amazing volunteers gleaned nearly 200kg of organic leeks from a farm near Brussels. In just a few hours, they rescued and delivered these fine leeks to the Brussels Food Bank, to then be distributed to people in need. Without these terrific gleaners, the tasty leeks would have been ploughed straight back in the ground because they were too big for retail specifications.  In the UK alone the Gleaning Network has saved over 48000 kg of food from being wasted. Feeding the 5000 events are catalysing gleaning activities not only in Belgium, but also around Europe in France, Spain, the Netherlands and more! 

You can see more photos from the day by Kristina Marijanovic on our Facebook page.

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Forks Out as Cork Gets Ready to Feed the City

On Saturday, 15 March, our friends behind Feeding the 5000 Dublin, will be in Cork serving up 5,000 delicious free lunches made from ingredients that would of otherwise gone to waste.

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Feeding the 5000 are BBC Food & Farming Awards finalists!

We are delighted to announce that Feeding the 5000 is one of 3 finalists, drawn from over 6000 nominations for the BBC Food & Farming Awards, Best British Food Initiative; our friends at Company Shop are one of the others. 

The award is for ''a specific idea or initiative that’s making a positive difference to how and what Britain eats, and is showing the industry the way forward.''

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nycpj/profiles/initiative-in-british-food

All three of our campaigns were nominated: 

''All three campaigns – Feeding the 5000, Gleaning Network and The Pig Idea are about big ideas and big action to change the supply chain in favour of low-waste food production and consumption.''

We're thrilled to be finalists and want to thank all our partners, volunteers and supporters for making our work possible and helping to spread the revolution against food waste!