Think.Eat.Save with OzHarvest at The Kitchens, Robina

We are all guilty of wasting perfectly good food – you buy that packet of salad or bag of carrots on a day when you feel like a healthy fresh vegetable detox week is just what you need but through the week opt instead for easier, ready-made meals, or end up eating out. By the time you end up going to make a salad, you instead have a liquefying science experiment inhabiting your vegie crisper.

Thankfully, our friends at OzHarvest are coming to Robina next week to help teach us all how to be more aware of our wastage and give us some amazing tips on using up all of our food, up cycling and composting.

OzHarvest are Australia’s most active and effective food rescue charity and as part of the national Think.Eat.Save day they will be focused on opening our eyes to the impact our wasting ways is truly having on both our planet and our pockets.

Each year 4 million tonnes of food is wasted in Australia with an estimated cost of $20 billion and approximately half of that comes from households.

20% of our groceries end up in the bin costing the average Aussie family $3,800 each year.

To help you reduce your household foodprint, OzHarvest are hosting a Think.Eat.Save day event at The Kitchens in Robina on Monday 24th July.

The Think.Eat.Save campaign is a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) initiative aimed at raising awareness about food waste and helping the general public to make changes in their lives to help combat this issue.

OzHarvest is the official partner of UNEP for Think.Eat.Save in Australia and provides easy tips and tools to help reduce your food waste at home or at work.

Enjoy a host of a variety of free and fun activities at the OzHarvest Robina event including:

10am and 2pm – Enjoy a free screening of ABC’s War on Waste on the big screen at The Kitchens which lifts the lid on food waste in Australia.
10am – Sea FM’s Roving Reporter will be on site doing live crosses during the Sea FM breakfast show.
10am to 1pm – Live music will flow through The Kitchens with Sean Fitzgerald and Kris Wason (1pm to 4pm)
10:30am to 12:30pm – The Sea FM Street Team Sea Cruiser will be visiting The Kitchens.
11am and 1pm – OzHarvest’s Maria Bridgman together with The Kitchens Resident Chef Sam Gowing will host a free cooking demonstration showing guests how to create tasty meals from a mystery box of rescued farm fresh produce and whole bananas.
1pm – Learn how to save electricity and our environment with EasyOven and join their cooking demo.
Composta will show you how to get composting with their stylish, compact and easy to use ‘Composta’ suitable for the smallest of gardens and even balconies for apartment living.
Bee Eco Wraps will showcase their beautiful bees wax wraps, an environmentally friendly alternate to plastic wrap.
You’ll learn how to upcycle that old pair of jeans to grow veg or herbs in using left over coffee granules!
Woolworths a National event partner for this event will have their produce managers giving away ‘Odd Bunch’ fruit and vegetables to help change attitudes toward cosmetically imperfect fruit and vegetables.
Tenants throughout The Kitchens will be going yellow for the day and supporting OzHarvest by giving their donation vans a home for the day and featuring a special dish to support Think.Eat.Save.