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I get a large bag of free fruit every couple of weeks, what could I do with it ?

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FredAstairesChair · 24/05/2022 19:43

It's free at my partner's work and come Friday it all gets thrown away so she brings it for me.

I don't use much of it and usually end up pureeing a lot of it for baking.
I don't suppose food banks will take it, is there anything I'm missing, any organisations that may appreciate a donation of apples, pears, tangerines and bananas?
What would you do with it?

OP posts:

scoopoftheday · 26/05/2022 04:12

FredAstairesChair · 26/05/2022 02:22

I've messaged my local church and a few local charities to ask if it will help. I sponsor a hedgehog charity that may be able to use them. Community kitchen-I've not heard of one but depending on if I get any responses I will have a look. Thanks again everyone.

Check and see if your community group has a community fridge.

We have one in our area and they post the night before to say the hours they're open tomorrow and what they have available.

If they have a lot of certain stuff they'll also include recipe ideas on what you could use the items for.

Recently they'd loads of leeks so they'd posted a leek and potato soup recipe, at Halloween they supplied a pumpkin soup recipe.

The only issue you might have with getting rid of fruit is that you get it on a Friday - there wouldn't be after school club etc open on a Saturday so ideally you'd need to be getting rid of it quite soon. With our community fridge if they receive things like fruit or bread outside of their opening hours they'll post on social media and encourage people to go and help themselves.

Hopefully you'll be able to find a use for it - if you knew of any sports teams training locally maybe they'd appreciate it as a mid point snack? My kids hurling team manager used to chop a load of apples and Oranges up and have them in a big plastic tub for them at half time.

PortMac · 26/05/2022 04:23

Buy a juicer and have fresh fruit and veg juice.

sashh · 26/05/2022 04:55

I put some fruit on Olio (I have a pear tree so for one week I have more pears than a human can eat) and they were picked up by a local soup kitchen, they provide a hot meal in the evening and then a 'pack up' for the following day, they said fruit is popular. I suppose it doesn't need to be kept in a fridge.

The charity were picking up from Greggs, you might ask them (if you have one near by)if they link to a local charity / organisation most do.

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