World Food Day is celebrated every year across the world on 16th October to spread awareness about food safety and wastage of food. Suggest a few ways to avoid wastage of food during weddings, celebrations and parties.
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Choose a caterer and a venue carefully
Some many venues and caterers take leftover food-management seriously. If you have certain expectations about how scraps must be managed, you can share it with them and ask them to come up with a suitable plan to handle the same. Many caterers plan to take the food away and leave it to compost.
Serve with biodegradable or compostable plates
Instead of serving food in heavy china plates or silverware, serve food in compostable and biodegradable plates. This will also encourage guests to take only that much food on their plates that they can enjoy and eat.
Redirect Food to Needy
These days, many caterers have tie-ups with NGOs. Once the wedding is complete and guests have eaten, NGOs are given a call and they come with their trucks to pick up leftover food which is immediately sent to places where underprivileged or poor community resides. This way, good use of food is assured and food wastage at weddings avoided.
Be more accurate in your food preparation planning
We always want our guests to be well fed and this thinking leads us to prepare extra food which usually goes waste. Stop wedding food waste and be a little more mindful of waste control. There is no need to show and impress your guests with a flowing bounty. Serve them with love but only that much that they can eat and ask your caterers to plan accordingly.
Chuck Buffet System for Serving Option
Buffet system is not only expensive but also responsible for a lot of food wastage. Catering staff is always monitoring buffet plates and keep refilling them through the dinner. Choosing a plated or serving option help reduce food wastage to a great extent. This also helps in stopping food waste at the wedding.
Pack Food for the Guests
This option needs a sea change in thinking before it can be applied to Indian weddings. Why not keep takeaway boxes (that can be recycled) ready and pack dinner leftovers with the guests? Many guests love to enjoy midnight snacks once they return to their hotel and this takeaway box will meet their gastronomic cravings. This way, you can make optimal use of the wedding waste food feast.
See also: How to Choose The Best Outdoor Catering Service for Your Wedding Functions
Food to be served to hotel and catering staff
Why allow the food that was so lovingly and carefully prepared to go waste? Why not ask your catering and venue staff to enjoy leftover food and do justice to the royal feast you served to your guests.