Waste Less, Feed More: How Eurest Fights Food Waste with Creativity and Care

Food waste is central to many of the urgent challenges facing the world today, from hunger and poverty to climate change and the sustainability of our food systems. Change is possible and it starts with the choices we make every day.

Eurest is marking Stop Food Waste Day with action. Founded by Compass Group in 2017, Stop Food Waste Day is a global movement to spark change in the fight against food waste.  Across the country, Eurest teams are bringing the day to life with fresh ideas and flavorful experiences.

Here’s a look at what we’re cooking up.

Zero Waste Teaching Kitchens.

Culinary teams will showcase low food waste recipes with Teaching Kitchens to equip guests with hands-on tips and training like demonstrating how to use a variety of vegetables from root to stem. At a Virginia-based technology company, guests will learn to make dukkha-roasted heirloom carrots, drizzled with carrot top chimichurri topped with fried carrot peels over a bed of freshly made creamy ricotta, using the entirety of a carrot.

Hands-On learning.

From pickling veggies to propagating herbs, Eurest’s well-being team is leading fun, interactive sessions at marketplaces nationwide that everyone can do at home, including: “Pickling: It’s Kind of a Big Dill.” The session gives guests the option to create their own jar of pickled produce to take home, while learning simple ways to reduce food waste in their own kitchens.

Sustainable Gardening.

Through Eurest’s Grounds for Your Garden initiative, guests can take home a mini planter filled with seeds nourished by reused coffee grounds from the marketplace.

A Smarter Way to Donate Food

Eurest forged a national partnership to support food recovery with Careit, a mobile app company that connects surplus prepared food to local nonprofits and community organizations.  Careit automatically matches available food to verified nonprofits, schedules pick-ups and provides tracking and reporting.

According to Suzanne Landry, Eurest Vice President of Wellbeing and Sustainability, “Our goal is always to prevent food waste at the source, but when we have fresh, delicious food leftover, it should nourish people, not end up in a landfill.”

For more on how you can reduce food waste at home, visit Stop Food Waste Day and take the pledge.