Cracking Good Food took part in the Love
Food Festival, which took place at Manchester Museum on Saturday 28 April and was organised by the Sustainable Consumption Institute at Manchester University.
The Love Food Festival says it "aims to encourage
people in Manchester to eat more sustainable and fresher food by supporting local
growers, learning how to grow your own food and how to cook delicious healthy
recipes that won’t break the bank".
We had fun cooking outside, with changing
skies and a healthy breeze, and were very
lucky as the rain held off all day.
Our cooking session was aimed at 16-19 year
olds. Three groups of eight people had the
chance to chop and prepare vegetables for a healthy stir-fry meal using mushrooms,
spring onions, onions, garlic, fresh ginger, yellow peppers, courgettes,
carrots, broccoli, mangetout, beansprouts, fresh lime, soy sauce and
toasted sesame oil. It was a delicious, fresh,
quick, cheap and healthy meal which each group enjoyed eating together after
the preparation and cooking.
We had been given four boxes of vegetables:
celery, cucumbers, yellow peppers and broccoli from FareShare, which is an
organisation that redistributes short-dated food to community groups and saves
it from going to landfill. We used some of the broccoli and peppers in
the stir-frys. The rest of the
vegetables were given away to passers-by and we encouraged as many people as we
could to take what they wanted, resulting in many delighted people. Everyone got a recipe sheet too so they could
try/repeat the stir-fry at home.
I was thrilled that all the vegetables were
taken away and not put into landfill - how wonderful to see four empty boxes at the
end of the session. Maybe there’s a new
career for me out there on a market stall somewhere!
See the Cracking Good Food Facebook page for more photographs from the Love Food Festival.
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