Thursday, 26 April 2012

We just can't give it away!

Giving food away for free is something you’d think would be easy but alas we have recently found out that it isn’t.  Don’t get me wrong, we weren’t just stood in the street trying to hand it out to passers by.  I’m sure that may be a much easier way to give away food.  But sadly the type of food we were planning to offer wasn’t quite right for this type of event. I don’t think 5kg bags of ingredients would be that easy to dish out!  Instead, we wanted to donate the food to a charity or cause rather than throw it away, but it seems lots of places don’t want these sorts of donations.

We looked at numerous charities in London where we thought the ingredients we had would be useful.  Homeless shelters and other charities that help the homeless were some of our ideas but unfortunately, after much research, we realised that due to all the health and safety rules in many of these places they wouldn’t be able to accept what we wanted to give them.  Such a shame.

The next brainwave was to donate the food to a local animal shelter.  We thought that maybe they could use the chips for both the staff and the animals.  But once again we drew a blank.  A lot of the shelters don’t accept any food donations because the animals already have a strict diet that they have to stick too.  Our food is tasty and organic so we’d like to think that all animals would enjoy it if they had the chance to tuck in, especially meerkats who like to eat anything!


After looking into other charities and ideas we came to the conclusion that we probably wouldn’t be able to give the food away, no matter how hard we tried.  We are a very ethical company and hate any food going to waste so this whole situation was frustrating for us.  In the end we dished the food out between the staff, much to the happiness of everybody here.

We make all our food to order so very rarely have leftovers.  But when we do we like to use them somehow rather than put them to waste.  If you know of any charities that may be interested in receiving food donations in the future please do let us know.  We’d love to be able to help out any causes with any leftover ingredients or products.

Love, peace and non wasted pizza,

What On Earth

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