Free Lunch at Feeding the 5000 in Trafalgar Square

Previous | Image 1 of 2 | Next

Feeding the 5000 returns to London to raise awareness of unnecessary food waste in the UK

Event Description:
Londoners are invited to eat a delicious, free hot lunch made from fresh vegetables which would otherwise have gone to waste as the highly successful 'Feeding the 5000' event returns to London to raise awareness of unnecessary food waste in the UK and demonstrating and educating on ways we can reduce waste.

The event will be opened by Mayor Boris Johnson, who will serve the first bowl of curry, with demo’s from a host of celebrity chefs, and Tristram Stuart, award winning campaigner and author of the book Waste.

As well as the free lunch, there will be:

• live cooking demonstrations by leading chefs, including Thomasina Myers, Valentine Warner and Arthur Potts Dawson
• a public interactive apple pressing
• mass vegetable sorting with partner charity FareShare
• and a live pig enclosure where food waste will be recycled as livestock feed.

All activities will showcase positive solutions to existing food waste problems.

The event will also invite individuals to sign a public declaration: “I pledge to cut my own food waste and I want businesses to do the same”. At the same time, businesses will be invited to respond by signing their own pledge undertaking to cut food waste in accordance with a new online policy guidance tool developed by the Feeding the 5000 team.

The Bishop of London and Rosie Boycott will also speak about food waste issues on stage.