Recycled Food Cafe Lets Customers Pay What They Want

Food in Community, made up of UK residents, doesn't just "give away and call it done" with the fruits and vegetables it collects; it also uses this "surplus food" to create meals, holding a monthly "cook whatever you have" event called the "Pay What You Feel Cafe" (PWYF Cafe), where guests pay whatever they feel the Cafe's food and service is worth.

"We set the menu based on what food we have on hand, usually including soup, a main course, vegetarian dishes, salad, bread, and sometimes dessert!" FIC director Chantelle and the volunteers looked over the ingredients they had: graded-out potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, pineapple, apples, pears, and apple juice donated by farms, plus mixed beans sent by the food bank….. The volunteers then decided to cook the simplest "eggplant mixed vegetable stew" (basically just stewing all the vegetables and mixed beans together =.=), potato salad, and pear and pineapple salad. They were still short on seasonings and staple foods, so they had to buy those from the supermarket.

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When the PWYF cafe ended, there was still a lot left over