Love Slow Cookers, Hate Waste
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The Cheshire Food Hub, in partnership with The Welcome Network, and the Recipe Exchange are coordinating a slow cooker project as we start 2021. Warrington Youth Club are supporting the project expand across Warrington.
This is building on lots of fantastic work that is already going on across Cheshire within community projects as people cook together and find creative ways to cook on a budget.
The Cheshire Food Hub have already been gifted 200 Slow Cookers and plan to run a crowdfunding campaign over the next few weeks so that more slow cookers can become available.
£25 will cover the cost of providing a slow cooker
£10 will cover the cost of the store cupboard pack, provided at the outset
£5 will cover the cost of the recipe pack, provided every 2 weeks
We know that this will work best in the context of community groups and organisations identifying people who need support and will enjoy the slow cooker project and the community that it will create. We enjoy cooking whether its together or virtually with friends, neighbours and talk about the results on social media, or in the street. Sharing the experiences will help the project evolve.
We want to link the donations/funding of slow cookers with recipes available on the recipe exchange website, and Cheshire Food Hub are seeking funding to give people ingredient bags to get them started. We are also planning to link this to reducing waste and reducing energy bills.
Objective
Reducing bills - Ability to create home cooked meals using less energy (23p for 8 hours energy). Engaging with local food groups for collection will provide access to low-cost foods.
Saving Landfill - Using preloved slow cookers – Drop off points at food groups and other community centres across Cheshire, recycled and PAT tested by Changing Lives Together.
Reducing waste – Utilising ingredients from community supermarkets and Cheshire Food Hub
Creating cooks – Getting people to try and cook and learn new skills. The Recipe Exchange will provide recipes for people to use plus videos of community cooks showing how to make them.
Support for the project so far:
AO.com
AO have donated 200 new slow cookers with the possibility of more to come. They are also working with us on media, brand and other elements of the project to allow us to move forwards quickly.
Fiona Bruce MP Congleton:
“ The Slow Cooker Campaign is a great project which I’m delighted to support .
Using my slow cooker was an absolute boon to ensure we had a quickly available , warm , nourishing meal to return home to when my boys were at school , and was especially useful when different family members had staggered meal times .”
Nick Hopkinson MBE DL, High Sheriff of Cheshire
“A brilliant initiative around slow cookers that would mean people in food poverty could have a long-term loan of a slow cooker… Food poverty affects so many and this could have significant impact… there are a number of great ways of teaching people fabulous ways of preparing low cost but nutritious meals in a slow cooker.”
This is building on lots of fantastic work that is already going on across Cheshire within community projects as people cook together and find creative ways to cook on a budget.
The Cheshire Food Hub have already been gifted 200 Slow Cookers and plan to run a crowdfunding campaign over the next few weeks so that more slow cookers can become available.
£25 will cover the cost of providing a slow cooker
£10 will cover the cost of the store cupboard pack, provided at the outset
£5 will cover the cost of the recipe pack, provided every 2 weeks
We know that this will work best in the context of community groups and organisations identifying people who need support and will enjoy the slow cooker project and the community that it will create. We enjoy cooking whether its together or virtually with friends, neighbours and talk about the results on social media, or in the street. Sharing the experiences will help the project evolve.
We want to link the donations/funding of slow cookers with recipes available on the recipe exchange website, and Cheshire Food Hub are seeking funding to give people ingredient bags to get them started. We are also planning to link this to reducing waste and reducing energy bills.
Objective
Reducing bills - Ability to create home cooked meals using less energy (23p for 8 hours energy). Engaging with local food groups for collection will provide access to low-cost foods.
Saving Landfill - Using preloved slow cookers – Drop off points at food groups and other community centres across Cheshire, recycled and PAT tested by Changing Lives Together.
Reducing waste – Utilising ingredients from community supermarkets and Cheshire Food Hub
Creating cooks – Getting people to try and cook and learn new skills. The Recipe Exchange will provide recipes for people to use plus videos of community cooks showing how to make them.
Support for the project so far:
AO.com
AO have donated 200 new slow cookers with the possibility of more to come. They are also working with us on media, brand and other elements of the project to allow us to move forwards quickly.
Fiona Bruce MP Congleton:
“ The Slow Cooker Campaign is a great project which I’m delighted to support .
Using my slow cooker was an absolute boon to ensure we had a quickly available , warm , nourishing meal to return home to when my boys were at school , and was especially useful when different family members had staggered meal times .”
Nick Hopkinson MBE DL, High Sheriff of Cheshire
“A brilliant initiative around slow cookers that would mean people in food poverty could have a long-term loan of a slow cooker… Food poverty affects so many and this could have significant impact… there are a number of great ways of teaching people fabulous ways of preparing low cost but nutritious meals in a slow cooker.”
Organizer
Changing Lives Together
Organizer
Changing Lives in Cheshire
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