DS1 is working in a bakery

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A really good upmarket deli type place.

He brings home the leftovers that would otherwise go in the bin.

Today we have:

2 fruit scones.
6 honey cakes
A loaf of rosemary sour dough
A loaf of rye bread
6 goats cheese quiche
A smoked salmon salad
A egg souffle muffin thing
2 sausage rolls
2 strawberry cakes
A haselnut muffin
3 seeded bagels
5 sesame flatbreads
A chicken pastry
6 English muffins

Ndont mean tonsiund ungrateful, but it's awful. Both DS1 and I get fed our lunch at work, so it's only breakfast and evening meal we need, but I don't want to be eating this kind of thing at every meal. But, I can't throw food away.

None of this stuff keeps. Some can be frozen but there's a limit to how much you want in the freezer.

He sometimes takes some to my parents but they're on holiday. They have charities that take some of it, but they don't really want fish for.

DS1 plans to have the bagels for breakfast. I'll have the egg roll.

I'll have the salad and the chicken pastry for dinner tomorrow.

DS2 will probably eat a flat bread and a cake, aybe a sausage roll, but he eats like a sparrow.

The quiche and the muffins are in the freezer and I've eaten a scone that I didn't want just now.

The loaves will be OK toasted over the weekend.

I'm going to get fat, it's not healthy, but I can't throw it away. It's bothering me that some of it will end up in the bin. DS says that's where it would have gone if he didn't bring it, so if we eat some, that's an improvement, but....

Fish? The charities don't want fresh food...

Download the Olio app and give them away for free!

Can he get his work to sign up to olio or toogoodtogo or link up with a local food kitchen perhaps?

Olio/church?

Is there a community kitchen nearby?

Would the bakery sign up for one of those free food apps, I think you can just state random selection of bakery items to be collected each day at closing time? Hopefully someone will be around in a minute who knows a bit more about how they work.

I was going to say olio and also our local community centre has a help-yourself food fridge which is open 24/7

Olio app
Neighbours
Me if I’m nearby, would happily forsake vegetables and eat all that instead

Could he suggest the too good to go app to his work - I'm assuming if he brings home this much wastage so is everyone else! Either that or all their families are already over it, and they're maybe more selective over what they pick.

It sounds like a good perk on the face of it but it does quickly turn into an inconvenience filled with guilt as you 'waste' the wastage.

Failing that, neighbours? Friends? Accept your five a day is no longer fruit and veg, but 5 bread or pastries a day?

Aparently the company are trialling Olio in some shops but you have to commit to doing so many bags per day and some days they have loads other days nothing (which must be usual?) so it isn't being particularly successfully.

Are you on fb? Go on your local sites and give it away. I’d happily collect it if you were near me

Are you happy to post your address on line, OP?

<Grabs coat>

We only have one neighbour and she's coeliac, so it seems cruel to offer it there!

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I was once at a health visitor drop in clinic to have my son weighed and tesco sent loads of short dated bakery things there to give to the mums.

Sounds amazing ! Can you give some to friends /neighbors? Is it after every shift ?

The business needs to do toogoodtoogo bags they'd make money out of what's left and they'd be no waste

Crikey I'd be the size of a large house within weeks. I'm already the side of a three bed semi.

The bakery in my village gives "left overs" to the local church (as does the local village mini-market).

They (the church) hold a confidential list of people in need in the community and distribute appropriately (along with the non perishable items we can deposit at the the church food bank).

It's a good system as the community can contribute but no-one has to turn up asking for items. Any member of the community (within a 5 mile radius) can apply to the church for help.

I'm not religious but am really supportive of my local church in this endeavour.

The company have worked really hard to forge links with churches and food banks etc (they've only been open in the town 2 months) but most don't want food that needs to be used same day. They also don't want to have to collect it.

It's not everyday, only when he's on a closing shift. Some days there won't be much left but some days there's loads.

Apparently for the apps you have to say in advance how many bags you'll do?

Businesses have to say in advance - you don't have to

For Olio, you just post what you have and people will message you to ask to come and collect it. It's very easy

The bakery should sign up with Too Good To Go app.

I don't know, that's what he's been told is the reason they're not doing it.

My eldest sister worked at a bakery whilst I was at college. I would go and meet her after work. She would come away with enough bread for half our street. Occasionally a cake.
A car came from the homeless shelter and took a boot full too. All the staff took bread home.

Too good to go you say in advance you have x number of bags, but if it gets to the end of the day and you don’t, you just cancel the collections and the people get refunded.