Food Swapping Apps And Sites
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At a food swap, home cooks, bakers, canners, gardeners, and foragers get together to trade their homemade and homegrown food items.
Do you love to grow your own food, cook from scratch, or make the kinds of food — jam, pickles, ketchup, cheese — that most people usually buy? You might be ready to join the growing international food swap movement. Food swapping is nothing new — ancient Babylonian homemakers probably traded olive oil for beans.
The “Modern Food Swap” movement began in — where else? — Brooklyn, New York, in 2010. Since then, it has spread to every corner of the United States, Canada, Europe, and even South America and the Antipodes.
There are food swaps in every large American city and in many small towns and rural areas. Some food swaps meet once a month; some meet only a few times a year. Some food swaps have 50 participants and some have a dozen.
Swaps are held in all kinds of locations, from church basements, parks, and community centers to stores and cooking schools. Some swaps charge admission and some are free.
In short, food swaps take many forms, but they all have the following elements.
No money changes hands. Trading, not buying, is what the food swap movement is about. A food swap is intended to be a more personal alternative to the commercial food marketplace.
There is also a less romantic and more practical reason for this requirement: food that is to be sold is subject to various health and safety regulations. In many states, for example, food that is intended for retail sale must be prepared in a licensed kitchen by someone who has taken required sanitation training, and labeled according to industry standards.
What people bring to food swaps varies widely but can include baked goods, candies, condiments, preserved fruits and vegetables, cheese, fermented foods, drink syrups, alcoholic infusions, hand-milled flours, herbs and produce from vegetable gardens, eggs from backyard chickens, foraged fruits, and so on. The best swap items are things that are portable, not highly perishable, distinctive and delicious.
Sometimes people do bring non-food items, such as dog treats, candles, notecards, or health and beauty products. Whether that is permitted and where to draw the line on what kind of items are allowed is up to the organizer of each individual swap.
There are many good reasons to participate in a food swap. Here are four that I find particularly compelling.
1. It increases your options. Participating in a food swap allows you to diversify your pantry with different kinds of homemade or homegrown food. And that allows you to eat more homemade food, which is a wonderful thing. Food swaps create communities. The very best reason to participate in a food swap, other than bringing home delicious food, is that you will meet all kinds of people who share your passion for homemade and homegrown food. Swappers trade recipes and gardening tips, network, and form friendships that go beyond the food swap itself.
3. It will make you a better cook. If you are like me, you love to cook with unfamiliar ingredients and learn new skills in the kitchen. Not only does participating in a food swap motivate you to expand your cooking repertoire, but seeing the foods the other swappers make will inspire you to try new techniques and experiment with unfamiliar ingredients.
Because food swaps are in-person events that are typically organized online, they tend to attract a diverse group of participants and bring together people who might not have a chance to meet otherwise.
That is part of the magic of food swaps: they cut through the barriers that separate us — things like age, class, race, and geography — and connect people who share a love of food.
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OLIOEX For some, food waste is an inevitable part of modern life, but research indicates that throwing food away causes a feeling of physical pain for others. OLIO taps into the conscious consumer mindset to offer a food-sharing platform, connecting people with neighbors and local shops all over the world. Users add a photo and description of their item, indicating when and where to pick it up. Customers frequently donate fresh garden vegetables, bread from bakeries and unwanted household food and much much more! Now you can Olio items as well.
Website: https://olioapp.com/en/
Overview 1 Min Vid: https://youtu.be/75sG9AjCMXw
What You Can And Cannot Post: https://help.olioapp.com/article/100-what-can-cant-be-shared-on-olio
The building blocks of SHARECITY were created in 2016 when the team of researchers came together to review key concepts, existing theoretical approaches and research methodologies relating to food sharing. By exploring food sharing activities in 100 cities from around the world a framework was developed for identifying and categorising the practice.
This initial phase led to the development of the SHARECITY100 Database, an open access and interactive database that presents key variables for the analysis of more than 4000 initiatives across 100 cities in 44 countries and 6 continents.
For more information about using and licensing the SHARECITY100 Database check out the link below to get started.
Website: https://sharecity.ie/
Overview Videos: https://youtu.be/4WUCpfF-c9Q & https://youtu.be/QL01jOCqHKo
ShareCity Database: https://sharecity.ie/research/sharecity100-database/
A family member’s horror after catering an event that disposed of $5,000 worth of food inspired the creation of Flashfood. The app prevents food waste in the United States and Canada in two ways: It re-sells grocery foods approaching their best-before date at a discount, and it saves “not good enough” retail items and ships them to customers. Farmers and growers also can give Flashfood items that were rejected by grocers, to be sent to environmental-conscious consumers.
Website: https://www.flashfood.com/
Overview 1 Min Vid: https://youtu.be/sKfMlgHYqGM
YouTube Channel For More Info: https://www.youtube.com/@flashfoodapp
You like to cook and try new recipes. You even have some friends that also know their way around the kitchen. And they also have friends that are self-proclaimed “foodies”.
Then you MUST plan a Food Swap.
It’s almost like a potluck, but not quite.
Food Swaps are a creative way to get together with fellow food lovers, showcase your favorite recipe, taste some new ones, and exchange your homemade goods. It makes for an easy event to host, since everyone is bringing something to share.
A classic Food Swap is where folks prepare multiple servings of a particular recipe (e.g. jam, pickles, sauce, salsa, cookies, etc…). Each serving gets packaged up in preparation for swapping. Then everyone comes together for a casual gathering where they sample everything and barter their items.
Website: https://atasteforliving.com/food-swap-ideas/