Retail Food Recovery Program

“Mooooore please!”

We went to Langley to pay a visit to farmer Steven and his five rescued steers, to see how they're enjoying today's haul of donations from Save-On-Foods....

12 August, 2022

Turning recovered food into restaurant-quality meals for people in need

How A Better Life Foundation uses recovered food to create better lives for residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside...

22 June, 2022

Watch now! Cooking class with Theresa Contois using rescued food

For Stop Food Waste Day, see how Theresa Contois from Cedar Feast House Catering transforms rescued food into a delicious beef bourguignon...

27 April, 2022

North Okanagan wants higher rates to keep commercial food waste away from landfills

Beginning next year it will cost a lot more for large grocers and food processors to bring food waste to RDNO landfills. Global News reports on how FoodMesh can help those retailers divert their unsalable food away from landfill to charities first, farmers second. ...

23 April, 2022

FoodMesh network now rescuing 1 million meals per month

It's official. The organizations we work with are collectively rescuing the equivalent of 1 million meals every month, through both the Retail Food Recovery Program and B2B Marketplace. ...

13 April, 2022

Loaves and Fishes/FoodMesh continue to help those in need

WestCentralOnline reports on the extraordinary impact Loaves and Fishes' work with FoodMesh has had on people in Kindersley and surrounding communities...

08 April, 2022

Do you have animals to feed?

Find out how you can get a supply of fresh food donations from your local retailer to use as animal feed (they come highly recommended by Ernest, the pot-bellied pig)...

06 April, 2022

How Save-On-Foods is helping North Vancouver farm animals live long and healthy lives

Maplewood Farm's 76 animals now get to enjoy fresh produce from its local Save-On-Foods, thanks to this new partnership...

15 March, 2022

Food recovery program helps support Creston Food Bank and reduce waste

Creston Valley Advance reports on how FoodMesh's Retail Food Recovery Program has helped Creston Food Bank and Save-On-Foods save thousands of kilograms of food from the landfill...

14 March, 2022

Tell us how we’re doing!

If you're working with us on the Retail Food Recovery Program, we want to hear from you! What are we doing well? What’s not working so well? Do you have suggestions for things we could be doing better?...

02 March, 2022

How donations for 25 turned into meals for 700

The Launching Pad Addiction Rehabilitation Society's partnership with FoodMesh has grown from feeding 25 residents to 700 community members. Find out how. ...

02 February, 2022

A day with Friends in Need Food Bank

Nikki takes us behind the scenes of an organization that has rescued the equivalent of more than 1 million meals...

28 January, 2022

A small store with a big impact

How Buy-Low Foods in Boyle, AB turned things around for its local food bank...

12 January, 2022

1 million meals donated to people in need across BC, AB and SK

The Buy-Low Foods, Nesters Market, AG Foods and Meinhardt Fine Foods stores we work with have collectively rescued more than 1 million meals since they started working with FoodMesh in May 2021. ...

05 January, 2022

Melfort Food Bank hoping to reach more people in wider area

This Saskatchewan-based food bank is seeing a sharp decline in the volume of food people are donating to them. Their partnership with FoodMesh has helped to increase their access to food donations, but they are in need of more. NorthEastNow reports...

14 December, 2021