{"id":8090,"date":"2026-08-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/?p=8090"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:03:30","slug":"saving-food-saving-money-building-a-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/articles\/saving-food-saving-money-building-a-market\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVING FOOD. SAVING MONEY. BUILDING A MARKET"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"8091\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-2-734x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-2-734x1024.png 734w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-2-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-2-768x1072.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-2-1101x1536.png 1101w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-2-1468x2048.png 1468w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-2-1024x1429.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-2-scaled.png 1834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"8092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/11-2-734x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/11-2-734x1024.png 734w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/11-2-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/11-2-768x1072.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/11-2-1101x1536.png 1101w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/11-2-1468x2048.png 1468w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/11-2-1024x1429.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/11-2-scaled.png 1834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africans have saved R12.5 million on groceries while preventing 200,000 meals from ending up in landfill through Refreshi, a local startup that built a surplus-food marketplace that has expanded from just 35 partner stores to 700 nationwide in the space of a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-8090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-startups","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8095,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions\/8095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}