Join the Leftovers Recipe Challenge!
We’re inviting Southbury residents to take part in an exciting community Recipe Challenge — and help turn food scraps and leftovers into something amazing!
🥕 What’s the Challenge?
We’re creating a community cookbook filled with creative, tasty recipes that use:
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Leftovers from last night’s dinner
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Surplus ingredients you need to use up
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Wilting veggies
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Extra dairy or eggs
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Food nearing its expiration date
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Scraps you’d normally toss
If it saves food from the trash — it belongs in this cookbook!
We’ll compile submissions into a community cookbook to share with everyone.
Click here to learn how to participate.
EyeRecycle Bottle & Can Redemption Event
Date: First Sunday of every month
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Where: 800 Main Street South, Southbury, CT 06488
Please note: We have a new location in the parking lot behind the 800 building. Please follow the signs to our new location.
Enter: driveway on the right side of the 800 building.
Exit: at the traffic light.
EyeRecycle is a redemption center. EyeRecycle pays the full 10 cents per item. They take anything with a CT refund label, not just what the store sells. Plus, they make sure the redeemable items are recycled correctly. We also recycle empty inkject cartridges.
For more details and to see what is NOT ACCEPTED click here.
Donations at each event will benefit the following organizations:
11/2/25 PHS Robotics Team
12/7/25 PHS Track Team
1/4/26 Juniorettes
2/1/26 Words Across Miles
3/1/26 Troop 1607
4/5/26 SACA
5/3/26 Juniorettes
6/7/26 Southbury Food Bank
7/5/26
8/2/26 Troop 1607
9/6/26 PHS Robotics Team
10/4/26 Friends of Pomperaug Music
11/1/26 Southbury Food Bank
12/6/26 PHS Grad Nite 2027
Food Bank Donation - Adopt A Shelf
Date: Second Saturday of every month
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Where: 88 Main Street South, Southbury, CT 06488
Sustainable Southbury has made a commitment to the Southbury Food Bank to fill a shelf with canned fruit every month. We invite you to help us by volunteering to donate items or be a dropoff site for donated items. Please sign up if you would like to participate.
For more details click here.