Spoonfuls is the largest food recovery operation of its kind in New England. As a nonprofit, our mission is to facilitate the recovery and distribution of healthy, fresh food that would otherwise be discarded. Our team works to efficiently deliver this food to those organizations where it can have the greatest impact and to address the health, environmental, and economic effects of wasted food on our community.
By intercepting perfectly good, unsold food and getting it from where it is to community programs feeding people facing food insecurity, we’re able to reach over 63,000 people each week with fresh, wholesome food.
Keeping food out of the waste stream is an important way we reduce our carbon footprint and mitigate the effects of climate change. Each week, Spoonfuls’ team keeps over 120,000 pounds of food from going to waste.
Wasted food wastes resources, too – not to mention all the time and money it takes to get food from farm to fork. We work to ensure food meets its ultimate purpose: to feed people! The food we recover equates to over $228,000 worth per week.
We work with hundreds of businesses to get good food from where it is to those who need it now. We partner with food donors, including grocery stores, wholesalers, farms, farmers’ markets, school and corporate cafeterias, and stadiums, that donate their unsold-but-still-good food. We pick up food five days per week and deliver it to community organizations like local pantries, meal programs, shelters, senior centers, after school programs, and more that serve neighbors facing food insecurity.
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