Cooking ready meals has continued throughout the summer and autumn, thanks to the support of our community volunteers enlisting people on probation as Kitchen Assistants to help prepare the vegetables and pack the meals.

The pumpkins in the photo were turned into a wonderful Burmise Pumpkin Curry and we donated them to help feed the homeless in Manchester and Salford though the charity Two Brews: https://twobrews.org/

While the cooking is an important ingredient of the work we do, it’s only a part of what we are trying to achieve. What we’re all about is enlisting people on probation to provide affordable and nutritious food that enables people in food poverty to eat well and to eat well sustainably.

Our meals are all about providing an affordable alternative to the cheap low protein and highly processed foods which are often all that’s available to people in food poverty and which contribute to many people having poorer diets and corresponding long term health problems.

What’s more, much  of this unhealthy food has travelled for miles to reach the shops, thus contributing to carbon emissions which damage the health of the planet as well as its people.

That’s why our focus is on growing and cooking healthy food locally and delivering it to people in the most environmentally friendly way possible. So we’re not just about enlisting people on probation to help feed the poor and hungry, we’re much more about working with them to build a more sustainable local food system for everyone’s benefit This is what we mean by supporting the foundational economy – making sure everyone  gets the  everyday universal basics like food that make life worth living for everyone.