	{"id":120143,"date":"2026-05-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bellarinetimes\/?p=120143"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:58:25","slug":"more-than-a-meal-behind-the-scenes-effort-keeping-the-bellarine-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bellarinetimes\/news\/more-than-a-meal-behind-the-scenes-effort-keeping-the-bellarine-fed\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a meal: Behind-the-scenes effort keeping the Bellarine fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EACH week, thousands of meals are produced in a small kitchen tucked away in Ocean Grove&#8217;s industrial estate.<\/p>\n<p>Overseen by head chef Anthony Higoe, the Feed Me Bellarine kitchen is a feat of logistics.<\/p>\n<p>Producing up to 1,000 meals daily, Higoe relies on a team of volunteers, a well-stocked freezer and some creativity to bring the ever-changing menu to life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t really follow recipes because we&#8217;re not certain what we&#8217;re going to get in, so you can&#8217;t really map out what you&#8217;re going to cook,&#8221; Higoe said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a lot of thinking on your feet and working together as a team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The stress levels are really, really low in this environment because it&#8217;s the outcome that we&#8217;re aiming for, which is different to most cooking establishments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The outcome \u2013 free and accessible food relief for community members in need \u2013 is what keeps Higoe coming back each week.<\/p>\n<p>Now two years into the role, he joined the team after working in fine dining establishments.<\/p>\n<p>Working with apprentice chefs in previous roles has primed him for working with a rotating group of volunteers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038 \" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/2026-04-2810.18.38_80736.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"947\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feed Me Bellarine head chef Anthony Higoe and founder Lana Purcell. Photo: Matthew O&#8217;Donnell\/Hails + Shine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some days he welcomes in retired chefs looking to giv<\/p>\n<p>e back to the community. Others days, the kitchen is filled with home cooks.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of who is available, Higoe makes it work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You just have to work with what you have,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Sometimes you might not get as much done as you wanted to during the day, but it&#8217;s just about managing the staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I pick up on people&#8217;s skills pretty quickly and I manage that skill set.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We put our love into it, because that&#8217;s what makes the difference between food that tastes good and doesn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feed Me relies entirely on food donations to keep the community fed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a philosophy Higoe is proud to be part of after becoming disillusioned by the food waste in other parts of the hospitality industry.<\/p>\n<p>Grateful for the donations the charity receives, he also feels frustrations for small distributors who have deliveries turned away from big supermarkets due to small blemishes or inconsistencies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038 \" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/2026-04-2810.07.11_80729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feed Me head chef Anthony Higoe never knows what ingredients will come through his kitchen. Photo: Matthew O&#8217;Donnell\/Hails + Shine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With additional care and quality management, Higoe said it is not difficult to take unwanted products to create delicious meals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not a soup kitchen; we&#8217;re not here to throw things together and blend it up, add a bit of salt and hope that someone is going to eat it,&#8221; Higoe said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is about providing homestyle meals to people that they are going to be sustained from and sit down and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re sitting down with someone, sharing a meal together, that tastes good, that brings a good feeling and there is more likelihood that these people are going to connect together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A nice meal helps people open up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feed Me founder Lana Purcell said she is proud to see the thousands of meals leave the kitchen each week.<\/p>\n<p>Since its founding in 2019, it has grown significantly. Purcell wants Feed Me to be a place where the community can come together, whether in need or not.<\/p>\n<p>She said building the cafe alongside the free market was important, as it creates a space for interaction while offering an added layer of privacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted this to be a community space, to show we&#8217;re not just a charity that you go to when you&#8217;re in need,&#8221; Purcell said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a bit of stigma going to some places because you can be identified by going in.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038 \" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/2026-04-2810.08.26_80672.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1028\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feed Me head chef Anthony Higoe. Photo: Matthew O&#8217;Donnell\/Hails + Shine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to create a space where the community was supporting the community and you could be here regardless of if you need aid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the massive behind-the-scenes efforts of her 500 volunteers is an increasing priority for Purcell.<\/p>\n<p>Without their support, there would be no way to get food sorted, packed, cooked and delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Their services are more than just food relief though, with Purcell understanding the importance of a knock at the door for those who have meals delivered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We put a lot of emphasis onto getting to people&#8217;s houses,&#8221; she said. &#8220;People don&#8217;t have neighbours anymore, they might not have family, so they&#8217;re self-isolating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Loneliness is the biggest thing that we&#8217;ve got as a problem here, and so our volunteers might be the only people that knock on their door during the week, so it is important\u00a0they are there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feed Me operates across sites in Ocean Grove, Geelong and Torquay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EACH week, thousands of meals are produced in a small kitchen tucked away in Ocean Grove&#8217;s industrial estate. 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