Wasting food, can be like throwing money in the garbage
BROOKS, AB. – During the ‘Taste of Nations’ event at the JBD Canada Centre Field House on Saturday afternoon, EcoBrooks set up a different kind of vendor table in conjunction with Alberta Culture Days.
EcoBrooks Committee Chair, Florence Juska said they’re looking to call awareness to food waste and are trying to educating people not to throw out everything in the garbage.
“Leftovers or if its gone a little bit bad on the edges then we want people to consider other ways and methods of cooking the food,” she explained.
For the purpose of the event, EcoBrooks reached out to Friesen Bros. IGA and local producers for cull or imperfect items, that wouldn’t be on store shelves but still had nutritional value said Juska. The committee partnered with a Brooks Composite High School Foods class to to create a shepherds pie, apple crisp and chicken gumbo she explained. These dishes were then gievn out as free samples during the ‘Taste of Nations’ event.