What happens to what is not sold on the day?
Nothing is wasted.
We give the bread away to charities. We have used various outlets over the years, from gettting it picked up by the Cyrenians or brought to charities such as the Salvation Army or Jericho house. Currently, during the week, we are giving the day-before bread to Scoosh after school club where it is used for healthy kids snacks there, and on week ends, bread is kindly collected by Liz for The Braidwood Centre.
However we are always looking for charities interested to pick up (often small amounts of) bread and products…please get in touch if you’d be interested.
Some of the production goes to an office in Stockbridge and is sold the next day through an honesty box.
Some of the bread becomes delicious breadcrumbs, some become irresistible croutons.
Up to recently, what got through the net of these various options and became stale is kept and brought by the Katia and her kids to Gorgie Farm or other places with pigs and nearby kids attractions. However, this is no longer possible because of new regulations so we are actively looking for farms/people able to use this for their pigs/chicken etc.
Please do get in touch if you know people who can be interested.