Making Our Community Stronger through Surplus Food Recovery/Food Rescue
Pass the abundance, please! Change the hungry world.
Feast Forward in Action
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What it can look like in the real world
John Jones runs a small local restaurant called Super Taco. He serves food made with fresh, quality ingredients like homemade breads, organic vegetables and lean meats. Every day, he disposes of between 12-20 lbs of various leftover entrees and individual ingredients that will not meet quality standards the next day. This organic waste goes to a landfill and joins, according to the EPA, the about 24 percent of municipal solid waste disposed of in landfills.
- Due to its quick decay rate, food waste in landfills is contributing to more methane emissions than any other landfilled materials. An estimated 58 percent of the fugitive methane emissions (i.e., those released to the atmosphere) from municipal solid waste landfills are from landfilled food waste.
Instead, John chooses to donate that food to Feast Forward. We pick it up, process it with cutting edge technology to retain up to 95 percent of the original nutritional values, and distribute it to organizations and individuals.
The list of those who could benefit is too long to list, from basic disaster assistance to increasing the ability of local food pantries to meet needs- and everything in between!
Imagine this...
Schools send home a grocery bag of donated shelf stable goods (ramen, granola bars, etc) every week with students that are struggling with food insecurity at home. Feast Forward coordinates with the school counselors to add preserved dairy, meats, fruits and vegetables, or meals made with whole food ingredients like lean proteins to increase the healthy value of the program.
or...
Jane is a woman who has been struggling with mental health issues, addiction, and is unhoused. She rarely utilizes local on-site food resources due to trust issues and lack of transportation and has been seen in the local emergency room for malnutrition four times in 3 months.
Feast Forward provides the social worker at the hospital with food packs filled with convenient, easy open, low weight, long term storage packages of freeze-dried high nutrient foods from venues like Super Taco. Given to Jane at the emergency room, she can eat it as is, wherever she is, or just add liquids right to the packaging to be nourished.
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About Feast Forward
WHAT DO WE DO?
We are a 501(c)(3) charitable food rescue and community food sharing organization!
That means we partner with local restaurants and markets to gather surplus food, then we freeze dry it for shelf stability and ease of use in our state-of-the-art dedicated facility before distributing it to local food banks, pantries, cafes, and other organizations that support food distressed individuals.
We get nutritious shelf stable preserved food to those who can't go where fresh food is!
WHY IT MATTERS!
We envision a world where food abundance is shared with those who are hungry. Our mission is to bridge the gap between food waste and food insecurity by using reliable long-term food preservation techniques that research shows retain 97% of the nutritional value.
- We save tons of food from landfills
- Thousands of pounds of easy, convenient, delicious packages of nourishment distributed to families and individuals in need, wherever they are, even if they cannot travel to a food bank or kitchen.
- Strong partnerships with local restaurants, food banks, and community organizations.
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Join us at Feast Forward to make a difference in the lives of those facing food insecurity. Whether you volunteer your time or donate resources, your support is vital to our ongoing efforts.
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