If you’d like to take part in a food drive for FareShare, please email Patrick Lanyon patrick.lanyon@fareshare.net.au. Our rescue vans will collect 100kg or more of priority ingredients from the Melbourne metro area.
Whether a school, business, community group or bunch of friends, you can run a food drive to help us source priority ingredients for our kitchen. Right now we are particularly short of vegetable oil, rice and dried herbs and spices.
Tinned legumes are fantastic ingredients helping ensure we always have protein to add to our meals when meat is scarce. We also need dried chickpeas and lentils to add to our nutritious ready-to-eat meals while flour is an essential ingredient for making pastry for our famous quiches and sausage rolls.
Domestic household donations
Please note that only the following foods can be accepted from domestic households or businesses that are not registered food businesses:
- Tinned tomatoes
- Vegetable oil
- Dried herbs and spices
- White rice
- Flour
- Tinned and dried lentils and chickpeas
- Tinned and dried cannellini and borlotti beans
- UHT milk
These donations must also meet the following conditions:
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Be within use-by date or no more than six months past
best-before date - Have packaging intact and undamaged (with no signs of pest of pest activity)
- Be fully labelled with all ingredients in English
FareShare cannot accept the following products from domestic households or businesses that are not registered food premise:
- Meat, poultry, fish or products containing them
- Refrigerates dairy products or products containing them
- Eggs
- Home grown vegetables or fruit