surplus food
More than needed
Surplus food is food produced or purchased beyond what is needed or consumed.
The term appears in contexts of agricultural overproduction, grocery redistribution, and food waste reduction: The charity collects surplus food from restaurants.
Government programs sometimes buy surplus food from farmers to stabilize prices.
At home, surplus food is simply leftovers or pantry overflow.
- excessSurplus beyond need
- leftoversUneaten food kept afterward
- abundanceAmple supply, overflowing
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- soup kitchenFacility feeding the poor
free meals · community fridge · harvest · waste · overflow · stockpile · pantry · glut · rations · canned goods · redistribution · charity · expiration · preservation · sell by date · best before · compost · dumpster diving
- soup kitchensoup kitchen, serving line, free meals, ladles, volunteers
- food aidsoup kitchen, soup kitchens, hunger relief, pantries, meal programs
- hunger relieffamine relief, hunger relief, feeding programs, emergency rations, meal programs
- scavengingscavenging, rummage, foraging, forage, salvage
- institutional foodcafeteria, school lunch, mess hall, chow hall, galley
surplus foodfood scarcity
Insufficient available nutrition
famine · hunger · starvation · food insecurity · malnutrition
surplus foodfamine
Severe food shortage
starvation · food insecurity · hunger · food crisis · malnutrition