ECF is the organisation that provides the fresh fruit and veg stall in the hospitals. See ECF Newsletter for their Christmas news. Their Take and Make meal kits have been really successful – over 5000 sold to date, and a lot of them to CRF staff! They have launched two new meals – a korma and a vegetarian shepherd’s pie with sweet potato mash. Why not try them out and let us know?
Category: Food
Too Good To Go – join the fight against food waste!
Has anyone tried out the Too Good To Go app? https://mailings.ed.ac.uk/2YP3-YL1V-4NV8O7-L3LA4-1/c.aspx Wasted food is responsible for 8% of the global greenhouse gas emissions – it’s not just the food itself that goes to waste, it’s all the resources that went into making it, from water to land and labour. Incredibly, …
Sustainable eating
When talking about sustainability and saving the planet *insert superwoman picture here* – we cannot forget about sustainable eating. Below I will share a few tips how you can re-vamp some good old staple recipes with plant based products. Also to take the art of calorie counting to the next …
Have you seen our chilli crop?
Our crop of chillies has suddenly turned red this week! Must be all that lovely autumn sunshine on the kitchen windowsill. Please help yourself to a chilli, and let us know what you made with it. Oct 3, 2019
Premium teabags leak billions of plastic particles
Interesting article about microplastics in food, in this case premium teabag. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49845940 According to the study: The level of “particles released from the teabag packaging are several orders of magnitude higher than plastic loads previously reported in other foods”. Sep 27, 2019
Apple, peach and apricot chutney recipe – by popular request!
OK, so it has a high sugar content, but it is all natural, fat-free and goes amazingly well with the Chickpea Chana Dal recipe I posted the other day. In fact, it goes well with loads of things, especially curries. It’s a Madhur Jaffrey recipe (note the high volume of …
Chickpea Chana Dal
Has anyone not yet tried Edinburgh Community Food’s Take and Make meals? You get everything you need to make a delicious veggie meal, including the right amount of the right spices, so there is no waste. I’ve tried quite a few so far, but my favourite is definitely the Chickpea …
