London charities feed 5,000 to prove good food need not be wasted

19 Nov 2011

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London's Trafalgar Square saw a unique feast – a free curry lunch for 5,000 people using food that supermarkets normally reject.

The misshapen carrots and potatoes and tonnes of other food material that supermarkets normally reject are not all that bad, according to the organisers of the feast.

The event, organised by writer Tristram Stuart, with help from charities and farmers, was meant to show that a lot of food rejected in the UK could be eaten.

UK farms and butchers have donated all the food, which would in normal case, have been thrown away for being the wrong shape or just not what customers want.

The event was aimed at demonstrating to people in the UK that they could in fact create tasty meals out of food they would usually throw away.

In the UK, families on an average throw away food worth £680 a year per household, amidst rising food shortage worldwide.

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