Welcome to our 225 rescue kitchen
225 Rescue Kitchen
Three O’clock Project has officially launched an innovative food rescue kitchen in Baton Rouge, transforming recovered food into nutritious meals for those in need. We’re creatively repurposing donated food waste each week into ready-to-eat, chef-crafted meals delivered to local community partners. Made possible through the generous support of the Joe Burrow Foundation and key partnerships with organizations like the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, these collaborations allow us to recover surplus food that would otherwise be discarded and give it new life as healthy, wholesome meals for food-insecure families across the city.
“This kitchen represents a small but mighty step toward solving food insecurity in Baton Rouge...”
A food rescue kitchen is a solution to two pressing issues: food waste and hunger. According to the USDA, up to 30–40% of the U.S. food supply goes to waste each year. At the same time, nearly 25% of East Baton Rouge Parish residents face food insecurity. This initiative directly addresses both problems by recovering perfectly good, unsold or unused food from grocery stores, farms, and food distributors and turning it into meals that are immediately distributed to communities in need.
