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Save the panettone: the anti-waste initiative – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Come back “Save the Panettone”: the idea of Too Good To Go so that we don’t waste all the panettone, but also many other typical Christmas desserts and savory delicacies, left in supermarkets, and not only, which are still delicious. An initiative that works very well: last year there were “saved” over 3,800 “Surprise Bags”that is, the boxes that this year too we will be able to purchase in just a few clicks, bringing home lots of sweetness at very low prices.

How Save the Panettone works

It works like this: on app by Too Good to Go you search for “Save the Panettone” or simply “panettone”, and choose your favorite shop among the over 600 that have joined the initiative, including Carrefour Italia. At that point, as always done using the anti-waste app, yes book the Surprise bag and go to collect it. We tried, and with 3.99 euros we have just booked a bag in a nearby supermarket containing gourmet panettone, chocolates, pandoro. With 20.99 euros (instead of 63) we instead booked a “Suprise Bag” in a delicatessen with 36 sandwiches with whom we organized a last minute aperitif together.

The price, in fact, is tempting, especially considering the general increase in prices this year, with specialties such as pandoro and panettone increased by 9% and 10% respectively (source: Osservatorio Nazionale Federconsumatori). Not to mention that it’s nice to prolong the Christmas atmosphere with a small gesture that is good for the planet, and which teaches us to waste less.

The Too Good to Go initiative

«Through the return of the Save The Panettone campaign, we want this year too encourage more careful consumption and the adoption of good practices to combat food waste as much as possible, in a period of the year when this is particularly felt”, he comments Mirco Cerisola, Country Director Italy of Too Good To Go. «The initiative aims to help shopkeepers and consumers to recover all those food products related to Christmas, New Year and Epiphany that risk being thrown away, even if still in perfect condition.

Anti-waste recipes with panettone and pandoro

Another idea for enjoying Christmas delicacies out of time? Using them in the kitchen, for new recipes, a great passion. A recent survey carried out by Too Good To Go and YouGov revealed that, among the solutions adopted by Italians to avoid throwing away leftover food after the holidays, the use of anti-waste recipes is a widespread practice (43% ). For this reason we have proposed 15 recipes for recycling sweet and savory panettone, and many other new and very easy recipes (including panettone toasts). Other ideas? Here are two proposed by Too Good To Go:

The recipe for panettone cassatine

#SaveThePanettone: the initiative against waste (Knam also participates) – Italian Cuisine

Too Good To Go launches #SaveThePanettone, the initiative that will allow you to save the sweets of the Holidays. Master Ernst Knam is also contributing

According to estimates at Christmas alone in Italy over 500,000 tons of food are thrown away, with an economic loss for a single family of € 80. Just take a trip to the supermarket to realize it: although Carnival sweets have already appeared on the shelves, there are piles of unsold panettone waiting to be saved.

As? He thought about it Too Good To Go, the app that since 2015 has allowed bars and restaurants to sell food that is not sold but “too good to be thrown away” online at reduced prices.
In January, in Milan, Rome and Palermo and in over 100 shops throughout Italy, users will be able to purchase specials Magic Box containing Christmas products that need to be saved.

From 17 to 23 January, 47 stores of Carrefour Hypermarkets and Carrefour Market will join #SaveThePanettone in which the sweets of the holidays will be made available.
They also participate in the initiative Ernst and Frau Knam: from 20 January it will be possible to save Knam artisanal panettone at their respective stores in Milan. But this is not the only contribution of the king of chocolate.

"In order to raise awareness as many people as possible on the issue of food waste, we launched Remix, an eBook that can be downloaded for free from our site, which provides tips and anti-waste recipes" he declares Eugenio Sapora, Italy Country Manager of Too Good To Go.
Among the recipes, from all the countries where the app operates, there is an unmissable Ernst Knam's recipe to recycle the chocolate and nougat left over from the Holidays.

Knam chocolate and nougat mousse cake

Ingrediants

400 g of liquid cream
300 g of nougat
300 g of powdered sugar
225 g of egg whites
200 g of dark chocolate
100 g of egg yolks
90 g of unsweetened cocoa powder
30 g of potato starch

Method

Preheat the oven to 200 ° C and start beating the egg yolks with 100g of powdered sugar for about 5 minutes. Subsequently, whip the egg whites with the rest of the icing sugar and once done, gently mix the two compounds also incorporating the sifted cocoa and starch.

Spread the contents on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and bake for 9-10 minutes. Then, in a bowl, melt the chocolate in a bain-marie and lightly whip the cream separately. Now pour the cream into the bowl containing the chocolate and mix the two compounds with the whisk until you get a mousse.

Once the marquise is out of the oven, sprinkle it with a light layer of granulated sugar and you will be ready to compose your dessert! Place the marquise base in a mold and add some coarsely crumbled pieces of nougat, taking care to cover everything with the chocolate mousse.

Leave the cake to rest for 2 hours in the refrigerator and once cold decorate the edges with chocolate chips (alternatively you can also use a dry crumbled biscuit) and cover it with a thin layer of cocoa powder and other pieces of nougat.

Spending suspended: the charity initiative for Christmas – Italian Cuisine

Have you ever heard of suspended spending? Here's what it is about and how you can participate in the various solidarity initiatives. For a peaceful Christmas for everyone

TO Christmas shopping rhymes with "suspended". In this period perhaps more than in others we feel the need to be supportive with those less fortunate than us. And among many charitable initiatives where we can participate there is the one, in fact, of suspended spending. It involves buying basic food items and donating them to those in need, leaving "a paid expense" to those who cannot afford it: an idea taken from the Campania custom of "Suspended coffee", when a coffee is paid for at the bar for the next customer. Between associations and supermarkets, there are several ways to make a suspended expense, all over Italy. The initiatives exploded last spring with the emergency COVID-19 and many have been extended to this day.

Spending suspended in shops and supermarkets in Rome's municipalities

TO Rome, the various municipalities have entered into agreements with small shops and supermarkets for the collection of basic necessities with points where citizens can donate part of their shopping. Food is collected by voluntary associations and distributed throughout the territory. At this link you can see, for example, the stores participating in the initiative in the Municipality I.

Spending suspended in Lombardy: you can donate food or money

In Lombardy the spesasospesa.org project, activated thanks to the collaboration between Terre des Hommes is Lombardy Food Bank, allows you to collect donations of money and food with a guarantee of transparency and traceability. Citizens in difficulty receive baskets with food items delivered by local non-profit organizations directly to their homes. Through the Regusto platform, companies, distribution chains and local producers can both donate surplus or expiring products and sell their products at discounted prices.

Spending suspended in supermarkets

Different supermarket chains support the suspended spending initiative. Esselunga customers, for example, can contribute a thousand Fidaty points to support the solidarity spending project to donate 15 euros of basic necessities to the most needy. Inside the supermarkets they can instead participate in the collection of foodstuffs such as tuna, canned meat, oil, legumes, peeled tomatoes, baby food, pasta and rice that will be donated to voluntary associations that will distribute them to those in need. . Carrefour offers suspended spending with Banco Alimentare: you can make a cash donation directly at the cash desk or donate basic necessities. Suspended purchases can also be made at various Coop points throughout the country.

Spending suspended by the farmer

Who does the shopping in the markets and in the farms of Campagna Amica di Coldiretti, spread throughout Italy, can decide to donate fruit, vegetables, flour, cheeses, meats or other foodstuffs made in Italy and at zero km that the farmers of Campagna Amica will go to deliver free of charge to needy families. It starts on Saturday 12 December from the Campagna Amica market in via San Teodoro 74 in Rome.