Cooking challenge getting creative with leftovers

From left, Love Food Hate Waste’s Pip Beagley and Joanne Smart. A ‘Masterchef inspired’ cooking challenge is coming to Ōrewa for the second time. The last time the Great Big Rescued Food Cook-off was held on the Hibiscus Coast was in 2019 and co-organiser Pip Beagley of Love Food Hate Waste says more than 50 people took part. “It was great fun,” she says. The real challenge of the event is not just to cook and share delicious food, but that the teams of cooks will be presented with a ‘mystery box’ filled with rescued food – the kinds of things people have in their cupboards and fridges. The ev...