On Sunday 6 July, 100 people from East Manchester will have a chance to learn how to cook up a great meal. The Community Cooking Roadshow “cooking pods” will be at New Smithfield Market in Openshaw from 11am - 2pm, and will teach local people how to cook three different delicious meals. As well as the FREE cooking lesson and FREE meal, all participants will receive recipes, ingredients, and store cupboard spices to take away, to inspire them to recreate the meal at home.
The event will also offer discussion and top tips on how to eat healthy food without spending a fortune, how to reduce food waste at home and use up left overs, healthy eating, and how your food choices can help the environment. The event will inspire local people in East Manchester to enjoy cooking healthy food, from scratch.
All food for the event will be made entirely from produce, provided by FareShare Greater Manchester, that would otherwise have been wasted. This includes fresh but cosmetically imperfect vegetables and fruits, and food intercepted from New Smithfield Market.
Cracking Good Food have also teamed up with a local housing association to create a new local healthy cooking club, that will continue to inspire and support local people to healthier diets, and to enjoy cooking.
Why is it happening?
Community Cooking Roadshow is brought to you by Cracking Good Food and FareShare Greater Manchester, and supported by Feeding the 5000 and Manchester Friends of the Earth. The event is inspired by the first Manchester Feeding the 5000 event, which took place in June 2013.
The groups involved are working together to highlight how easy it is to reduce the appalling levels of food waste in the UK and around the world, and how individuals can help. The event also seeks to reduce health inequalities in East Manchester, and support local people in learning new skills, and enjoying cooking healthy meals.
For further information, visit: www.crackinggoodfood.org/community-outreach/events/