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Anything still safe to eat that you won't use: cooked meals, bakery items, fruit and vegetables, packaged goods within date. If you would serve it to someone in your own home, it can be listed.

About a minute. You need a title, the number of portions, when it must be collected by, and the address. A photo is optional and is resized on your phone before it uploads.

It appears on Find food straight away. When someone claims it you get a notification with their name and the time they said they would come. The listing closes itself once the portions run out or the pickup time passes.

You can list food as free or at half price. Half price is meant for bakeries and shops that cannot give stock away outright. Most listings are free.

The listing closes at the pickup deadline and stops showing. Nothing is wasted by trying: list earlier in the day next time, since people look before they leave work.

Someone does. The recipient comes to the address you gave, at the time they chose. If you would rather not meet, leave it with whoever is at the counter and say so in the notes.

Most of it. Listings marked Free cost nothing. Listings marked Half price show the price per portion on the tag, and you pay the donor directly when you collect.

Anyone who will eat it or cook with it. You do not have to prove anything or explain your situation. Claim what you can actually use, and leave the rest for someone else.

Pick your district on Find food, or allow location so distances are worked out on your phone. Your location is never sent to us or shown to donors.

After you claim. Until then a listing shows only the city and district, so donors' homes and shops are not published.

Tick "Ask a volunteer to deliver" when you claim. A volunteer on that route may be able to bring it to you. It is not guaranteed, so claim only if you can collect it yourself should nobody take the run.

Don't eat it. Write to us with the listing and what you found, and we will follow it up with the donor.

Collect from the donor before the pickup deadline, take it to the address the recipient gave, mark it done. One pickup, one drop-off, usually inside one district.

Neither. You never pay for the food, and MealBridge does not cover fuel. Pick runs along a route you were driving anyway.

A clean bag or box, and an insulated one if you have it. Cold food should stay cold and hot food hot; the less time it spends in between, the better.

Delivery runs are about two to four hours a week if you take them regularly. You choose which ones, and you can take none for a while without losing your place.

So the other person knows who they are meeting, and can reach you if plans change. We ask for a name, an email address and a password, and your district and phone number later.

Yes. The role you pick when you sign up decides what you see first, not what you are allowed to do. Write to us and we will change it.

Write to us from the address you signed up with and we will remove it, along with your listings and claims.

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