Use your loaf!

This was the second of our monthly visits to help out with the amazing South Liverpool Zero Food Waste Community. It's a growing group of volunteers who are saving astonishing amounts of food from supermarkets and shops all over Liverpool, food that would otherwise be going to landfill yet is perfectly fine to eat still! They have venues all across South Liverpool and do about two pick up events a day for local people to come and collect a huge bag of food each. Large amounts of food are also distributed around various community organisations, plus fire stations and hospitals!
Their work is something to behold!

Our team of four included Abi who has recently moved to Liverpool having previously been part of our Newcastle GoodGym group, and Mairead a brand new member, both joining us for their first session in Liverpool, welcome both!

We joined the SLZFWC Friday night team, beautifully ran by Norma, and cleaned down tables, set up chairs and bags and got up to speed with the way things are done. Emma and I then took charge of the deliveries, marking off the various arrivals and carrying the bags and crates of food into the hall, and Abi and Mairead helped out sorting the food and distributing it into all the bags.

There was mountains of bread this evening coming in from every shop, loaves, buns, baguettes, and muffins, the entire room smelled of bread, along with trays and trays of onions, and of course lots of veg and frozen packets of food.

Then in the blink of an eye each bag was given to the lines of people patiently waiting outside. In total 30 families collected bags, and the rest was delivered to a few different community groups, meaning lots of hungry people fed and no food wasted!

Our evening of shifting and lifting was sandwiched in-between 3 of us walking to and from the venue and one cycling, so not a bad workout for a late Friday evening!!

We'll be back again in May, so do come and join us