Adult meals
209 660
or 365 675 child meals
FEED · BIG FIVE FOODS
Feeding projects
you can count
Live counts of people fed and meals provided by the feeding projects our customers and partners run, from the paid orders they allocate to each project.
MEALS ORDERED
Every paid order, every project
All customers and partners together: the meals from OnePot and porridge, and the people they feed.
4 projects · all customers and partners
People fed
209 660
Based on meals provided for 4 projects
OnePot meals
207 200
10 360kg
Porridge meals
2 460
205kg
Goal 2
Zero Hunger
209 660 meals provided across 4 projects
Goal 3
Good Health and Well-being
2 460 porridge meals provided across 3 projects
From 8 paid orders allocated to projects (10 565 kg). Unpaid orders do not count.
Goal 2 counts every meal. Goal 3 counts only fortified porridge meals, and is not added to the total. Linking a project is this book’s label, not a United Nations measurement. sdgs.un.org/goals. The content of this page has not been approved by the United Nations and does not reflect the views of the United Nations or its officials or Member States.
FEEDING CALCULATOR
See what it takes to feed people every day
Tell us how many children and adults, which meals and for how long, and see the Big Five Foods™ packs to buy and the cost per meal. Or start from a budget and see the meals it provides.
Meals each feeding day
Breakfast food
Period
5 is a school week. Months use 52 weeks a year.
Your plan
4 400 meals for 100 people over 1 month (22 feeding days)
- Porridge Banana 147 packs
- One-Pot Beef 63 packs
Total for the period
R10 867.50
VAT inclusive, before delivery
Cost per meal
R2.47
Per person a day
R4.94
Per person a week
R24.70
Month: R107.03
Add to cart rounds each flavour up to the 10-pack shop minimum, as its own cart line.
Who would you like to feed?
Choose who receives the meals. Big Five Foods is selected by default and will allocate the food to a partner project. You can pick a registered organisation and one of its open projects, or just buy for yourself.
OnePot: 1 kg is 20 adult or 35 child meals, for breakfast or lunch. Fortified porridge: 1 kg is 12 adult or 15 child meals, for breakfast. Shop prices, VAT inclusive, before delivery. Packs are rounded up, and Add to cart raises each flavour to the 10-pack shop minimum.
WHERE THE MEALS GO
Meals by city and province
Each pin is a known city, or the province when no city was named. Never a street. The size follows the meals from paid orders there.
All places
209 660 meals · 10 565 kg · 4 projects
Where meals are needed
Organisations asking for support
Every organisation is reviewed before it is listed. Places are shown by town.
No organisations are asking for support right now.
FEATURED PROJECTS
Projects their owners chose to share
A project appears by name only when its owner lists it publicly. Everything else is counted in the totals, without a name.
- Active
KZN ECDs
Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal
- Meals
- 4 060
- Food
- 245 kg
- People fed
- 4 060from meals
Goal 2
Zero Hunger
Goal 3
Good Health and Well-being
- Active
Komani
Komani, Eastern Cape
- Meals
- 2 600
- Food
- 150 kg
- People fed
- 2 600from meals
Goal 2
Zero Hunger
Goal 3
Good Health and Well-being
- Active
Langa
Cape Town, Western Cape
- Meals
- 2 600
- Food
- 150 kg
- People fed
- 2 600from meals
Goal 2
Zero Hunger
Goal 3
Good Health and Well-being
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NGOs & NPOs
How we support NGOs and NPOs that feed people
Big Five Foods™ lists approved organisations in the public directory, and they appear on this feeding page when they work here. Donors can choose them when they give meals, and customers and partners can allocate food they buy to those organisations' feeding projects.
Listed in the directory
Once an organisation is reviewed and approved, and opts in, it appears on the NGOs & NPOs page with its own organisation page.
Donors can choose them
In the donor flow, a listed organisation can be chosen as the recipient of a gift, so the meals go to its projects.
Meals allocated to their projects
Customers and partners can allocate food they buy to an organisation they support. Those meals are counted on the organisation's projects.
Verification, project pages and reports
Organisations can be verified, list their projects publicly, and follow the meals and reports on those project pages.
WHAT A KILOGRAM FEEDS
Adult meals and child meals are two ways to read the same food
A kilogram is not added twice. Choose the adult count or the child count. The project keeps both so you can report either way.
20
Adult meals from 1 kg of OnePot
35
Child meals from the same 1 kg of OnePot
12
Adult meals from 1 kg of porridge
15
Child meals from the same 1 kg of porridge
The public count comes from paid orders allocated to a project: pack weight times quantity, then the yields above. Soya mince and soups are counted in kilograms, not as meals. A weekly, fortnightly or monthly standing order also shows what one delivery feeds, and about how many meals a month that rhythm would provide.
SECTION 18A
Keep the funder on the project
Name the NPO or NGO that funds the feeding, and their registration or PBO number when you have it.
This website does not issue an 18A certificate
A Section 18A certificate is issued by the approved public benefit organisation, when that organisation is allowed to issue one. The project stores their name, number and email so you know who to ask. It does not create, sign or pretend to issue the certificate.
START
Open a customer account, then build the book in order
Partners who already have a partner login use the same feeding book inside the partner portal. Signing up as a partner on the public form is an enquiry. It does not open the partner portal.
01Create a customer account
Use the sign-up for a customer. You will confirm your email before the account can save a project.
01Create a customer accountUse the sign-up for a customer. You will confirm your email before the account can save a project.02Create a portfolio
Open Portfolio in the side menu or the top bar. Name the book. Customers and partners each keep their own. A viewer can look. An admin or a buyer can add to it. Customers also have Projects on the company page.
02Create a portfolioOpen Portfolio in the side menu or the top bar. Name the book. Customers and partners each keep their own. A viewer can look. An admin or a buyer can add to it. Customers also have Projects on the company page.03Add programs to that portfolio
Open Program and create one or more programs. Each program is linked to a portfolio you already created, such as a school term or the holiday kitchens.
03Add programs to that portfolioOpen Program and create one or more programs. Each program is linked to a portfolio you already created, such as a school term or the holiday kitchens.04Add projects to a program
Open Projects and create a project linked to one of those programs. Name the manager, the delivery site, the contact and phone, the funder, the kilograms of OnePot and porridge in each delivery, and how often it repeats: once, weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
04Add projects to a programOpen Projects and create a project linked to one of those programs. Name the manager, the delivery site, the contact and phone, the funder, the kilograms of OnePot and porridge in each delivery, and how often it repeats: once, weekly, fortnightly or monthly.05Allocate orders to the project
Allocate a shop order or an invoice to a project. Once that order is paid, its OnePot and porridge count on this page within a minute: meals from the kilograms, people from the number the project states. Record each delivery in the portal as it lands, so the site contact can confirm it.
05Allocate orders to the projectAllocate a shop order or an invoice to a project. Once that order is paid, its OnePot and porridge count on this page within a minute: meals from the kilograms, people from the number the project states. Record each delivery in the portal as it lands, so the site contact can confirm it.
FEEDING PROJECTS
Ask for meals, fund meals, or sign in.
Organisations register for free and are reviewed before they are listed. Donors follow every meal they fund. Everyone else signs in here.