Our Food for Life program currently operates from 188 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley. Shrila Prabhupada especially said that Australia would be conquered by mass distribution of prasadam. The Food for Life program is meant to purify the city by mass distribution of sanctified foodstuff to anyone and everyone. The Food for Life Centre is open from 12 midday to 2 pm Monday to Friday. Many devotees like to sponsor this free distribution of prasadam and if you are interested please contact Deva gaura hari das - email: deva@in.com.au

Offering Food

Lord Krishna explains in the Bhagavad-Gita

patram puspam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktya prayacchati

If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.

He also says those who offer with love and devotion are free from all their sins whereas those who prepare food only for their own sense enjoyment verily eat only sin and therefore become implicated in the karmic activities of killing. Therefore the offering of food is a very important part of the practices of the Krishna Consciousness Movement.
Offering of Food to Lord Krishna can be done by anyone and the process is very simple. They need only to take a picture of Lord Krishna and prepare vegetarian foodstuffs in a very clean environment. Non-vegetarian foods and also onion and garlic are not offerable to the Lord so therefore the offering must not contain these foodstuffs. After the food has been prepared we can simply place it on a plate which is specially kept for the Lord and we can chant the Hare Krishna mantra and offer the food to Lord Krishna in our mind. After we have offered the food to Lord Krishna it becomes prasadam or the mercy of the Lord and then we ourselves can partake of the food. By this simple process we can overcome all bad karmic activities
associated with eating and progress quickly on the path of spiritual realization back home back to Godhead. It is also very nice to chant the mantras offering the prasadam to Shrila Prabhupada and Lord Chaitanya as well and this can be done in the following way by chanting:

nama om visnu-padaya Krishna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarsvate deve gaura-vani pracarine
nirvesesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine

namo maha-vadanyaya krishna-prema-pradaya te
krishnaya krishna-caitanya-namne gauratvise namah

In India the offering of foodstuffs and distribution of prasadam is a very popular part of the Vaisnav culture. If you go to any Temple of Lord Visnu in India you can request prasadam that has been offered to the Lord and at many Temples the offering of prasadam is extremely elaborate such as Jagannath Puri Temple where more than 52 preparations are offered to the
Lord many times a day.