A climate-friendly diet prioritizes foods with lower environmental impact—like plant-based, local, and upcycled ingredients—to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without sacrificing nutrition or flavour. You can start today by swapping everyday staples like bread for upcycled alternatives that rescue food waste
Blue Collar Bakery (Toronto, ON)
Transformer of spent barley (IN) -> Burger Buns (OUT) Products: Burger Buns, Sourdoughs, Baguettes, Multigrain Address: 241 Wallace Ave, Toronto, ON M6H 1V5 Instagram The Spent Goods Company (@spentgoods)
Pizzeria Defina (Toronto, ON)
Transformer of spent barley (IN) -> Pizza (OUT) Products: Margarita Pizza Address: 1485 Dupont St, Toronto, ON M6P 3S2 Defina’s 2 restaurant locations have been on the Toronto west end for the longest time and never disappoint. During the pandemic
Bagel Time (Toronto, ON)
Transformer of spent barley (IN) -> Baked Goods (OUT) Products: Montreal style bagels Address: 582 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 1R1 (Greektown, close to Pape station) In the summer of 2021, Marc van Beusekom, a friend of Spent Goods, started
Drake Commissary (Toronto, ON)
128 Sterling Avenue, Toronto, ON M6P 0A1 (closed) Our first food transformer partner: Spent barley (IN) -> Baked goods (OUT) Products: Beer bread sourdough, multigrain, butter crackers, pretzels, bagels, burger buns, hot dog buns, Rye, english muffins, 3 types of
Belle’s Bakery (Toronto, ON)
Transformer of spent barley (IN) -> Baked Goods (OUT) Products: Pretzel twists, Pretzel bagels, Seed crusted sourdoughs Address: 262 Dupont St, Toronto, ON M5R 1V7 (Dupont/Spadina) Within 2 months of the closure of the Drake Commissary, we were very fortunate
Resources for Reducing Food Waste at Your Toronto based Facility
Reducing waste at your food manufacturing facility first 1. Setup a green bin program in your kitchen – City of Toronto offers free green bin organic collection for residential and industrial sector (you’ll start to pay for more than once
Businesses Using Spent Grain: Directory Canada & US
Protected: Ontario based Animal feed companies
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Spent grain as cattle feed
Traditionally, BSG is mainly used as cattle feed. It should be considered as a lower cost, rich in protein, lipids and fiber supplement, not a complete feed replacement. How does it taste? Majority of the sweetness of beer has been drained