Fighting food waste!

[Kellymumto2]

I was just wondering how many of you are aware of the Olio app?

olio is a free app which gives you the opportunity to give away food and items to local people.

i am an olio food waste hero. Every week I collect food from local stores and supermarkets and distribute this for free within my locality. As FWH we are given this food after food banks and community fridges etc have taken what they need, so buy using the app you are not depriving anyone of anything, but you are helping to lower food waste: this week alone my collection provided 374 food items, all of which I rehomed and saved from the bin. This is happening every day of every week in every town! That should give you an idea of how much is being wasted!
mid you haven’t downloaded the app yet, give it a try. It’s free (it will ask you to make a donation but just click the x and get rid of the request!) and available on android and apple.

OLIO give it a go!

Boosting.
there are a few FWH in our area but I’ve never requested anything, for the longest time it felt a bit of an odd prospect to rock up to someone’s house for some free avocados & mushrooms. When I finally decided to bite the bullet and request something, everything had been snapped up! 😂
Good for you, I’m sure there are a lot of grateful recipients and it must be a total palaver to be photographing, listing then arranging for people to collect these items. It’s great you are saving things from going to waste.

The Too Good To Go app is another great save food waste app, not free but very cheap.

Yes! I use too good to go too! I love that app almost as much as olio. I just cannot believe the waste in this country and if I can reduce that I will. It is a bit of a faff but one night a week not watching any soaps doesn’t do me any harm! 😂 I love meeting all the people who collect and am lucky to have countless FWH in my area, so never a shortage of food!