Yes, our Marie has very much embraced food waste. It seems to have become a hobby of hers.
Summary of article in Billed Bladet #38, 2018.
Written by Henrik Salling.
Yes, she did indeed visit the Food Bank. The Food Bank is mainly a volunteer concept based on free donations of surplus food.
In contrast to supermarkets, which can sell food that's close to the expiry date at very reduced prices - which has become a major success I might add - other stores don't go for that option. Sometimes because it takes up too much store space, others are based on online sale and delivery and haven't got physical stores where they can sell surplus food themselves. So they donate surplus food to the Food Bank. The volunteers from the Food bank drive out and collect the food. Back at the Food Bank the various donations are checked and sorted by other volunteers and made ready for distribution to charity organizations, homeless shelters and so on. I.e. people who cannot afford to buy good food - or who prefer to buy alcohol instead...
Other volunteers then distribute the sorted foodstuff to these charities or locations which present it to the needy.
The Food Bank is located in Copenhagen, but there are others similar to this elsewhere in DK. But of Course Copenhagen, being the largest city and the capital, attracts a proportionally larger number of needy people, worthy of these donations.
The Food Bank collect and distribute 900 tonnes of food a year and about 250 people work as volunteers.
Marie gave an advise in regards to checking meat, which I'm not certain I wish to follow myself: "There are of course some products where you have to be particularly careful, like meat. Personally I always smell the food before I throw it out. I don't look that much on the (expiry) date."
- Well, I do! If we happen to have too much meat around, there's always the freezer. Or it's destined to become "biksemad" (*) or it will end up as slices on bread.
(*) I've told you about "biksemad" before, which is ideally suited for poor and hungry students. Extremely cheap, easy to prepare, requires hardly any cooking skills, nutritional and you can't eat a bite afterwards! - And it tastes great!
