Aug 31, 2026 · 33 min · 11 segments
In this episode, Rob Miller, CEO, and Kade Berman, Community Engagement Manager, share the inspiring story of FoodFilled and its mission to tackle food insecurity and food waste by connecting surplus…
Kade BermanGuest
Claudia NankervisHostAnd what kind of food are you seeing be thrown away or be given to agencies? Because I remember working at Baker's Delight in like 2014, 2015.
And even over that two years of me working there, I remember at the beginning saying, At the end of the night, we would just put everything in the bins out the front.
But then as it went on, obviously, there's more organizations like yours where people are aware that this food is important and this food could go to people who are in need.
I think something special about collecting food is that for the most part, the food businesses providing the food really care about it.
They care about the food and so they're not going to be providing food that's off or old.
I think that's a common misconception that when you're picking up food and you're delivering it, you're delivering food that's about to go off or that's low quality or low nutritional value.
A lot of the food we get isn't close to its expiry date and is really high quality.
I think that's a very important part of the work we do because everyone deserves to eat well and deserves to eat in a way that's nutritious and healthy for them as well.
It's interesting, you know, you mentioned about bakeries, like the industry at the moment is speaking a lot about bread because there is a significant surplus of bread just across the board.
And in many instances, we actually find it challenging to connect with potential recipients who are happy to receive the amounts of bread that are able to be donated.
And people are realising that maybe you shouldn't be just eating bread or...
You know, we talk about how it's important for us to reflect on, yeah, why that's the case.
And as consumers even, what are we doing to contribute to a food economy that's producing so much bread? Like for bakeries and other food businesses, it's obviously there's a reason why economically it makes sense to overproduce and you don't want to have bare shelves and customers expect that they'll have access to everything they want so they can make their choices.
But the result of that, the consequence is something that we're seeing and we're facing every day.
It's a sad situation to see how much bread is thrown out from many, many food businesses.
And what kind of food are you seeing be thrown away or be given to agencies? Because I remember working at Baker's Delight in like 2014, 2015.
And even over that two years of me working there, I remember at the beginning saying, At the end of the night, we would just put everything in the bins out the front.
But then as it went on, obviously, there's more organizations like yours where people are aware that this food is important and this food could go to people who are in need.
I think something special about collecting food is that for the most part, the food businesses providing the food really care about it.
They care about the food and so they're not going to be providing food that's off or old.
I think that's a common misconception that when you're picking up food and you're delivering it, you're delivering food that's about to go off or that's low quality or low nutritional value.
A lot of the food we get isn't close to its expiry date and is really high quality.
I think that's a very important part of the work we do because everyone deserves to eat well and deserves to eat in a way that's nutritious and healthy for them as well.
It's interesting, you know, you mentioned about bakeries, like the industry at the moment is speaking a lot about bread because there is a significant surplus of bread just across the board.
And in many instances, we actually find it challenging to connect with potential recipients who are happy to receive the amounts of bread that are able to be donated.
And people are realising that maybe you shouldn't be just eating bread or...
You know, we talk about how it's important for us to reflect on, yeah, why that's the case.
And as consumers even, what are we doing to contribute to a food economy that's producing so much bread? Like for bakeries and other food businesses, it's obviously there's a reason why economically it makes sense to overproduce and you don't want to have bare shelves and customers expect that they'll have access to everything they want so they can make their choices.
But the result of that, the consequence is something that we're seeing and we're facing every day.
It's a sad situation to see how much bread is thrown out from many, many food businesses.
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