Rescuing Leftover Cuisine

The largest accomplishment in 2022 was a food rescue operation established with pepsico. In portland, Oregon, a pepsico factory of fritos lays produces large amounts of snacks including chips, pretzels, and other snacks. Rlc works with this frito lays factory as needed, picking up on average thousands of pounds of cases of snacks that would otherwise have been thrown out. Rlc delivers this to many food banks, homeless shelters, and soup kitchens around the portland area. More than 1,000 people benefit from the food donated by fritos lays on each delivery. In 2022, the partnership expanded from previous years due to more efficient operations and resulted in 1,860,500 pounds of food that would have been thrown out to accompany meals fed to those in need. The second largest accomplishment in 2022 was a food rescue operation established with daily harvest. Daily harvest creates delicious and nourishing smoothies, soups, oats, lattes, and more using organic fruits and vegetables. These products are delivered directly to consumers, and the warehouses that ship these products donate excess inventory to rlc. These warehouses throughout the country in California, new jersey, and Texas donate this healthy product so that it does not go to waste. Instead, it helps feed hundreds of thousands of meals for the food insecure in those local areas. In 2022, this partnership resulted in 167,013 pounds of food being rescued. Rlc first established its third largest food rescue operation with kind snacks many years ago and since then three kind snacks warehouses in California, new jersey, and Pennsylvania donate their excess to rlc. Kind snacks produces large amounts of food including bars, grains, and cereals. Rlc works with the corporate kind snacks offices on a monthly basis to get obsolete inventory donated that is on average thousands of cases of food that would have otherwise been thrown out. More than 100,000 people and children have benefited from the healthy food donated by kind snacks. In 2022, the partnership resulted in 51,680 pounds of food being rescued.