Skipchen – Another Solution to Food Waste

Recently, One Hundred Dollars a Month Reader, Jess, shared a link on Facebook to a pretty awesome article about a group of volunteers in Bristol England and their solution to food waste {thanks Jess!}.

Apparently, they are taking the no food waste thing to another level by scavenging for still edible food, otherwise destined for the garbage, and instead, turning it into lunch at a restaurant appropriately called Skipchen.  Each night, the volunteers from the nonprofit restaurant scour the usual food waste sites:  grocery stores, farms, restaurants, etc. and gather food that is past its supposed expiration date, but still very edible.  They take the food back to the restaurant and prepare a unique daily menu–completely dependent on the kind of food they were able to “intercept.”  The restaurant is designed to manage food waste and provide affordable nourishing meals {customers can eat for free, or pay whatever they decide is fair}.

I think this is a pretty cool idea.  I mean, it’s like a soup kitchen for the masses–it isn’t about income, it’s about nutritious food that would otherwise end up in the landfills.

What do YOU think, would you be willing to give Skipchen a try?

~Mavis