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The Glamorous World of Food Waste

In 2021 we’re reviving the Best Before Project blog and increasing our media presence and visibility to spread the word about our work. In order to do that however, there’s one important thing you should know about us, the target of our project - Reducing food waste. It’s not the most glamorous subject to learn about, but understanding food waste is key to understanding our goals and why we do what we do. The BBPs main goal is to educate the public on the misconceptions about best before dates and reduce the amount of food ending up in landfills. So many of us assume that when a piece of food reaches its best before date, it’s ‘gone off’ but the BBP aims to show that this isn’t the case and that there are many things to do with food that’s past its best before date. Together with many other charities and organisations, the Best Before Project aims ultimately to make a positive difference in people’s lives and the wider world, a goal that we’re sure many of you share.  As food waste...
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New addresses for our social networks and newsletters!

 Hello everybody! Here are the renewed addresses for our social networks! We still need help from volnteers willing to take care of those social media, blog and newsletters! Please get in touch with us if you want to help :) - details here 📷 Instagram - @bestbeforeproject 📘 Facebook   bestbeforeproject 🐤 Twitter -  @bestbeforeproj And, if you want to receive info about what we are doing vie email, you can subscribe to our BBP News newsletter 📧 if you want to some more information or be more helpful, we send more info and sometimes send open volunteering positons on our BBP Friends  📧📧 mailing list
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Five expired foods you can still eat

 Let's follow the example! don't waste the food! Food that is good after expiry date A supermarket in Boston is going to sell only food that's past its sell-by date. So what are they, asks Rajini Vaidyanathan. In the US alone, 40% of food is thrown out, partly because of confusing date labels, telling consumers to "use by", "sell by" and "enjoy by" a certain time. Some of the dates are not about safety but taste, says Dana Gunders, a food scientist from the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC), which has issued a report saying much of the food labelled bad is actually perfectly edible. Early next year, businessman Doug Rauch, once behind the successful Trader Joe's chain in the US, is opening a supermarket and restaurant which will sell outdated food. So what are some of those foods? Tortilla chips aren't going to make you sick after a month, says Gunders, although they might start tasting stale. Putting them in an oven with oil wi...
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Looking for articles about food

Hello! BBP is always looking for food-related articles, and journalists interested in this topic! if you find any that you think are related to our mission, please send us a link to them to our e-mail :)
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Vans of food loading and unloading!

 Another van full of food moved to one of our storages! Remember, we always need: - volunteers to load and unload the food - boxes to store the unvboxed food we get - our message to be spread all over the world!!! Help us in any way you can! and thanks to our volunteer Francesco for the help! :D
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BBP Strategic Workshop

 As all the organizations, BBP has a structure and needs medium and long term plans. That is why we decided to attend a workshop that Matt kindly organized for us! Will it work? Will we go ahead with our mission? Only time can tell, but we are faithful and will put all our effort to make it happen!
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Vegetables saved from Landfill!

 Hello everybody! Although we are focused on "Best Before" labeled food, sometimes it happens that we occour in large quantities of other kinds of food that needs to be saved! Here is an example! about 700kg of tasty vegetables saved from landfill thanks to the joint action of BBP and Feeding 5K, and distributed to CFE (Community Food Enterprise) and to Rad Cross Following there are some pictures of the action (sorry for the quality!) Good job guys!        
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