Cafe serves meals made from food destined for the bin

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Sam Joseph, co-director, outside Skipchen in Bristol. Credit: PA Wire

A cafe which creates meals from food destined for the bin has opened in Bristol.

Volunteers who staff the pop-up called Skipchen in Stokes Croft visit supermarkets each evening to go "skipping" - pulling out from skips food items that have been thrown away.

Items on the menu have already included lobster and Gorgonzola omelette since it opened on Monday.

The menu will change depending on what food items the team can obtain. Customers are charged on a a "pay-as-you-feel" basis.

The food items have generally reached the sell-by dates or have been surplus to the needs of the businesses, farms and local families who donate them.

Sam Joseph, co-director, outside Skipchen in Bristol. Credit: PA Wire

Sam Joseph, co-director of The Real Junk Food Project,which runs Skipchen, said he hoped to raise awareness of food waste in Britain.

The 24-year-old said: "I am really conscious of food safety and food hygiene.

"The way we do it when we go skipping is we do it as soon as they throw the food away. We see them do it and get the food out and into a refrigerator straight away."