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POSTED: 17 NOVEMBER 2011

OzHarvest delivers 10 million meals

To celebrate having delivered over 10 million meals to those in need, OzHarvest are marking this amazing milestone by calling out for Australia's favourite leftover recipes for its inaugural cookbook, Ten Million Meals.

Ten Millions Meals will be encouraging everyday Aussies to send in their favourite recipes for using leftovers and will also feature recipes created by friends of OzHarvest such as the Barossa's own Maggie Beer, Matt Moran and Neil Perry.

Maggie Beer, a staunch supporter of OzHarvest, and a lover of recreating leftover meals, says a recipe book like this not only encourages more Australian's to cook at home, but also helps to save thousands of tonnes of leftover food from ending up as landfill.

Maggie says:  "There's so much that can be done with leftover ingredients from your fridge! A leftover chook can be used to make wonderful tasty sandwiches and don't waste the carcase; add some vegetables and make a chicken stock for a soup or to stir through your next risotto. Take up the leftover challenge and send your recipes into OzHarvest today."

Just last month, OzHarvest, Australia's favourite food rescue charity, picked up its ten millionth meal from Urban Meats in Marrickville, Sydney, a wholesale supplier of organic and bio-dynamic meat and poultry to the food industry. Each week, owner Tim Elwin supplies OzHarvest with fresh meat which then gets delivered to the many charities OzHarvest supports all over Sydney.

Owner Tim Elwin said: "We are incredibly proud to be the supplier of OzHarvest's ten millionth meal. It's great to know we are not only helping the hungry all over Sydney but also stopping good food from going to waste. I'm also contributing to the cookbook - I have some great leftover roast beef recipes!"

Ten Million Meals is due to be released in mid-2012.

Recipes* can be sent to tenmillionmeals@ozharvest.org by 19 December. For more information about the cookbook please contact Kim Morris on 02 9516 3877.

*Recipes should be no more than 350 words including title, ingredients and method; measurements should be in metric measure and also include how many the recipe serves. OzHarvest cannot guarantee your recipe will be featured.