Columbus Food Rescue

Columbus Food Rescue Columbus Food Rescue empowers volunteers to eliminate food waste AND hunger in our area! Register at foodrescue.us to get started! Got questions?

We match up donating agencies (restaurants, bakeries) with receiving agencies (shelters, pantries)—you transport the food. Check out our Columbus FAQs here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uj3ZPzvInd5a5dbSK30T90rD4baSl6j5FHTH4P9KzQQ/edit?usp=sharing

Whew—thanks, Kim, for rescuing these 1,000 pounds of surplus produce from a community giveaway last week! 🥬🥒 We’re so gr...
05/26/2026

Whew—thanks, Kim, for rescuing these 1,000 pounds of surplus produce from a community giveaway last week! 🥬🥒 We’re so grateful to our partners for helping keep this food in the community instead of the landfill!

In honor of International Compost Awareness Week, here’s a glamor shot of some Ro’s Kitchen food scraps on their way to ...
05/08/2026

In honor of International Compost Awareness Week, here’s a glamor shot of some Ro’s Kitchen food scraps on their way to the Waste and Reuse Convenience Center this morning. 💚 Even when our chefs and volunteers can’t transform *all* of an ingredient into a meal, we still do what we can keep that food out of the landfill!

Thanks so much to Wendy and chef Jason from the Governor’s Residence for ensuring that about-to-expire ingredients were ...
04/23/2026

Thanks so much to Wendy and chef Jason from the Governor’s Residence for ensuring that about-to-expire ingredients were cooked into these prepared meals and then rescued! 😍 The residents at Franklin Station Apartments, less than five miles away on Broad St, were super-excited to enjoy the dishes this morning.

CFR volunteers are the glue connecting all kinds of perfectly great, would-be-wasted food to the agencies that can distr...
04/21/2026

CFR volunteers are the glue connecting all kinds of perfectly great, would-be-wasted food to the agencies that can distribute it. You’re amazing! Here are just a few of the 200+ rescues you made possible just last week!

From the warehouse at to the masjid for tomorrow’s Somali Health & Wellness Fair! 💚
04/17/2026

From the warehouse at to the masjid for tomorrow’s Somali Health & Wellness Fair! 💚

Thanks to the crew from Toast and Little Italy Ristorante for helping ensure the uneaten food from last night’s event at...
04/14/2026

Thanks to the crew from Toast and Little Italy Ristorante for helping ensure the uneaten food from last night’s event at Pins Columbus didn’t go in the trash, but instead went to folks who needed it! Pizzas and salads and appetizers all got delivered to a supportive housing complex about a mile away. 🍕🥗 We so appreciate their thinking ahead to make sure the excess could be rescued!

Serving Franklin County Local Matters

We know everything is hard right now—and we’d love to talk about how this work might help drive meaningful action. That ...
04/09/2026

We know everything is hard right now—and we’d love to talk about how this work might help drive meaningful action. That is, we’d love to read (some or all of) this book with you!

Get POVERTY, BY AMERICA from the library, or from Bookshop.org or elsewhere online—then, if you can, join us in 3 weeks to chat about it! The link to RSVP is in our bio.

Local Matters Serving Franklin County

We’re so grateful to Sunny from Mega Food Mart and Anna from Primrose School in Upper Arlington—thanks to their generous...
04/08/2026

We’re so grateful to Sunny from Mega Food Mart and Anna from Primrose School in Upper Arlington—thanks to their generous donations of shelf-stable meals and snacks, drinks and treats, we were able to fill over a dozen Columbus Blessing Boxes over the weekend! 💚

(Reminder: NO PERISHABLE FOOD goes in these wooden boxes! Especially as the weather fluctuates, there’s no way to ensure something that needs to be refrigerated or frozen will stay at a safe temperature until it leaves the box. Save those goodies for a Community Fridges or Green Bexley fridge!)

Most of what we rescue each week falls very much into the perishable category—fruits and veg, dairy and meat, bagels and pastries. It was such a joy to share these nonperishable staples and goodies with neighbors all across Columbus. You rock, Sunny and Anna! Thanks so much for partnering with us to keep this food from going to waste.

Serving Franklin County Local Matters

Major thanks to Hannah and Aaron from for making sure the extra boxed lunches from their event today wouldn’t go to was...
03/31/2026

Major thanks to Hannah and Aaron from for making sure the extra boxed lunches from their event today wouldn’t go to waste! These tasty meals made their way to residents at two different supportive housing locations in Franklinton this afternoon. 💕🥪

When life gave 100 pounds of mistakenly-delivered ground beef last week, they reached out to the CFR crew—and the Ro’s ...
03/24/2026

When life gave 100 pounds of mistakenly-delivered ground beef last week, they reached out to the CFR crew—and the Ro’s Kitchen team made quick work of transforming those giant tubes of meat into gorgeous taco salads for community members to enjoy!

The finished product features refried beans, ancho croutons, pickled pearl peppers, and parmesan crisps alongside the ground beef.

Thanks SO much to Jordan and the Stacked team for connecting with us so swiftly—and thanks to chefs Brian, Avery (pictured), and Terence for helping morph this mistake-meat into restaurant-quality meals. They’ll be in the deliveries for visitors to , , and others this week!

Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew—just don’t let them go to waste! 🥔We were delighted to rescue all these taters t...
02/17/2026

Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew—just don’t let them go to waste! 🥔

We were delighted to rescue all these taters today, and to ensure they reached visitors at four different giveaway locations instead of moldering where they couldn’t be used. (And yes, Emily just happened to have the perfect tshirt for the occasion.)

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