You're doing your part, but someone else isn't. Everyone should learn as part of their upbringing that wasting food is bad - just like littering and thousands of other things. Unfortunately we live in a world where someone has to be fined for them to realise they're doing something wrong.

You could give it to a pig/chicken farm, or compost it at the very least.

I would set up a food collection spot just a few feet outside and ask people if they are kind enough to consider taking a case or two to donate there. This way I can redistributed the way I want with that second charity.

Thank you for your service ʘ‿ʘ

Seems kinda wasteful

I have a large ice chest and a heavily restricted diet due to medical issues and my food banks won't give me fresh produce unless I show proof of residency (they want you to have a refrigerator). The little daily snack pack with oreos and soda they give you otherwise isn't worth the trip.

Tax Churches Into Oblivion. A society that runs off a charity is a society that doesn't function. Christians always side with the fascist when they come to power. The private businesses are the fascist. The United States supported the Nazis during World War II. This was all to weaken the Soviet Union. America is an imperialist empire and fascists are the useful idiots of empire. The bureaucracy is just basically how things work. And there are rules for things for a reason. Trump and Elon Musk love bureaucracy. They just want it to work for them. Capitalism is a wasteful system. It prioritizes the profit incentive and sometimes over producing and outpacing your competitor until you corner the market. Charity is just one way to manage perception especially if you get less taxes. It doesn't make sense on purpose because fulfilling people's needs is not its purpose. Charity is a business and it's not about helping people. Even if it's a Christian church. We no longer produce our own food, and big agriculture is the only thing we got. We have enough to make sure people don't go hungry. But the capitalist wants you to go hungry. Or pay the highest price possible. But less than the guy down the street, that's competing with them. The nonsensical madness that surrounds me on the daily is just, it makes sense if you know how things work.

Usual trick I would think of is to make a simple veggie broth and freeze it after reduction. Tomatoes and cauliflower stems should be good for that and watermelon same but juicing it and freezing it.
At least it stores better and longer and reducing the air and space it takes up reduces it as well once it's just a liquid. Freezing in baking pans helps it go quicker to even though it is more smaller batches.

I worked in the produce department at Jewel-Osco for some time. It was when I peaked in life. We never gave food away to anyone. It was either sold or found its way into the trash compactor. Kinda sad to waste so much food. But I was so lost in the produce sauce that I couldnt even process it

This happens ( was exposed) at our local foodbank. (London, UK)

Hopefully there is a process in place to recycle it into compost.

Send in Newman, he can make a room full of muffin stumps disappear.