Make a meal in May for Kaibosh

Last week we went to Kaibosh’s launch of their fun­draiser Make A Meal in May, and frankly it’s an amaz­ing idea for an amaz­ing cause, and you should do it, please and thank you.

Oh, you want more explan­a­tion than that? Okay, the idea is that you get your friends/acquaintances togeth­er, make a meal at home, donate what you would have spent on a meal out and put food on the table for fel­low Wel­ling­to­ni­ans in need.

Who are Kaibosh? They’re a food res­cue group, which means they take per­fectly fine food that would oth­er­wise be thrown out, and give it where it is needed. At the launch of Make a Meal, a lovely woman from the Boys & Girls Insti­tute spoke about the dif­fer­ence Kaibosh food is hav­ing on her organ­isa­tion, where kids can now turn up to fill their bel­lies before they learn more, and can also learn to cook and pass on those skills. Ace.

Anoth­er woman who spoke was our very good friend Beth from Eat and Greet Blog who is now one of Kaibosh’s trust­ees. She was kind enough to give me her speech which I’ve abridged here:

Being a food­ie, I was very aware that there were those out there less for­tu­nate than I. Those that don’t have the choice which farm their meat would come from, but if they had it at all.

Kaibosh gave me a way to give back and addressed two things very close to my heart – food wastage (I worked in a super­mar­ket when I was 15 and I’m still kept awake at night think­ing about all those cream buns being thrown in the bin) and food insec­ur­ity.

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And what bet­ter way to help than sit­ting down and shar­ing a meal with friends. Food is such a great lev­el­er. The simple act of shar­ing a meal, wheth­er it is with fam­ily, friends or strangers, will always bring people closer.

… Wel­ling­ton is a food­ie city, let’s make it a food­ie city for every­one that inhab­its it”.