Free lunch for 5,000 highlights how to reduce food waste

AUSTIN (KXAN) — There’s no such thing as a free lunch — but in Austin on Thursday, the price of this meal will just be learning about food waste.
The City of Austin is hosting a “Feeding the 5000” event, the first of its kind in Texas.
The lunch will be made out of fresh food that would otherwise have gone to waste, according to a release. That includes misshapen (but still tasty) sweet potatoes, small butternut squash and pasta trimmings. The food comes from school