Meals That Matter with Kai Ika

In this hands-on cooking session, your team will learn traditional techniques from the Everybody Eats kitchen using rescued kaimoana—fish heads, frames, and offal—generously provided by our friends at The Kai Ika Project to create a whanau favourite fish chowder.

Working alongside our chefs, your team will help transform these humble, nutrient-rich ingredients into hearty, delicious fish chowder. The meals will be portioned and donated to support our community partners foodbank—supporting whānau with a nutrient rich meal grounded in tikanga.

What’s Involved:

• The Kai Ika Project: Rescues fish parts that would otherwise go to waste and repurposes them for communities in need. By doing so, they help reduce landfill waste and cut harmful emissions.
• Everybody Eats: Provides the professional kitchen, chefs, and hospitality expertise to turn rescued food into soul-warming meals every day.
• Corporate Teams: Step into the kitchen, learn sustainable cooking practices, and prepare nutritious chowder. Your mahi will directly support the kai efforts of the community foodbanks and help local whānau
• Community Foodbank partners: Proudly distributing hundreds of meals and food parcels each week to local whānau.

Why Get Involved?

• Team-building with Purpose
• Hands-on Sustainability in Action
• Tangible Impact on Local Whānau

“Of all the volunteering opportunities we get exposed to, this feels like the one where you can truly see the impact. It’s relatable. It feels closer to home.” — Lion NZ Team Member

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Contact our Partnerships and Marketing Manager susan@everybodyeats.nz for more information or to enquire about your Meals that Matter event in Auckland and/or Wellington