Join us on the 24th of November, 2012 at Wolfe Tone Park from noon as we attempt to feed 5,000 people free of charge with food that would have been thrown away because of aesthetics, blemishes, damaged packaging or short expiration dates. We will prove that this is still value (and taste) in such food and highlight the problems with food waste as well as offering solutions. For more information about this event, please click here. Feeding 5,000 DublinEvent details

• Enlist the services of catering chefs to make a simple meal out of still edible food that would have been discarded such as cosmetically imperfect food, produce that does not meet the aesthetic standards demanded by supermarkets, food not within the 21 day expiration window, food with damaged packaging, etc., and feed 5,000 people free of charge.
• There will trained volunteers to prepare and serve the food throughout the event.
• Receive food from established Bia foodbank connections/Farms with surplus vegetables after harvest.
• Meals served: possibly vegetable curry.
• Obtain donations of unwanted apples to press for juice and encourage visitors to press the ‘surplus apples’ and drink the juice.
• Obtain donations of unwanted fruit for jam/chutney (cooking demonstrations).
• Cooking demonstrations with a celebrity chef for tips on cooking with leftovers.
• Educational talks and demonstrations on how to prevent food waste in the home from ‘Stop Food Waste’ campaign.
• A stage for a band/music and inspirational speakers such as Tristram Stuart, the author of Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal (Penguin, 2009), whose campaigning on food waste won him last year’s international environmental award, The Sophie Prize (www.sofieprisen.no) and has been the primary organiser of the events in England.
• Leftover recipe competition.
• School involvement.