one way to solve this bottleneck is for actors in the food supply chain charity organisations and especially national authorities food security social security and environment to make a clear statement and develop guidelines supporting food redistribution as a positive activity as long as the food in question is not fit for selling in ordinary ways it is important that the well established systems for local direct redistribution especially from retail shops and other local sources primary producers local food producers food markets festivals etc food redistribribution is a very cost effective way to prevent food waste and increase the quality of life of lowincome and social clients which should imply that both the food donors the social welfare authorities and governmental authorities could have a role to contribute to a long term and more solid financial situation price per meal distributed for serving through the food banks operations will be about nok based in net costs for food banks in see table which is a quite low cost for the society