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Everyone Can Cook! recipe book launch tomorrow

Pilton Community Health Project’s Wednesday cooking club have created a new recipe book – and they’re launching it tomorrowI

PCHP Community Development Worker (Food) Joe Jones said: “We are launching our new recipe book Everyone Can Cook! at PCHP on Wednesday (10 May). Similar to the Cook & Taste recipe book that Memes put together a few years back with Muirhouse community shop, it’s a collection of favourite recipes from local participants at our Wednesday cooking club. The recipes are healthy, budget friendly and easy to make for and with the family.”

The launch takes place from 12 – 2pm.

Grow your own!

Communities urged to take advantage of new legislation

Community groups in Scotland’s towns and cities are being encouraged to take advantage of powers allowing them to create new places for growing fruit and vegetables. Allotments provided by local authorities are in high demand and the Cabinet Secretary for Land Reform, Roseanna Cunningham, says land reform powers could help reduce waiting lists by providing more land to grow food. Continue reading Grow your own!

Meal Makers

Meal Makers is a charity that helps isolated older people enjoy the benefits of a home-cooked meal provided by a neighbour.

It connects volunteers of any age who have a passion for cooking and want to be active in their communities (“cooks”), with older neighbours over the age of 55 (“diners”) who would appreciate a home cooked meal. Once a cook and diner have been matched, the cook will prepare an extra meal in their own home and deliver it to their diner at a time agreed by both parties. Meal shares can occur as often as the cook and diner would like, so it might be weekly, fortnightly or just now and again. It helps improve nutrition, reduce isolation and build community links that so often have been lost. There is no cost attached to the meals, as they are a voluntary donation of food between members.

The only cost is a £5 fee for the diner to join Meal Makers for the year. Contact Robert Peacock 07710 703528 or email robert@mealmakers.org.uk

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‘Yuck … I’m not eating THAT!’

Broccoli and cauliflower are back on the menu

A campaign to help Scottish parents get greens on plates launched this week as new research revealed almost a third (29 per cent) of parents surveyed have at some point given up trying to feed their children vegetables. Continue reading ‘Yuck … I’m not eating THAT!’

North Edinburgh projects to benefit from Fair Food Fund

Pilton Community Health Project, Granton Community Gardeners, Dr Bell’s Family Centre and Pilmeny Development Project are among twenty-one projects to benefit from a share of a £900,000 fund to tackle food poverty. Continue reading North Edinburgh projects to benefit from Fair Food Fund

Power of Food Festival this weekend

Saturday & Sunday 18 – 19 June

LOTS OF GREAT FREE LOCAL EVENTS

SEE PROGRAMME (below) FOR DETAILS

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Garden to Glass: New juice bar at North Edinburgh Arts

Family Event: Saturday 28 May 1 – 3pm

North Edinburgh Arts is to celebrate the opening of a new healthy juice bar with the Garden to Glass family event on Saturday 28 May from 1-3pm.

The free event will demonstrate affordable, effective and fun ways to get your recommended five-a-day.

Enjoy caapes, juices and smoothies and there’s chocolate sampling and making too. Pilton Community Health Project will help you learn how to reduce your sugar intake and Oaklands School will also be there selling craft items and delicious home made jam! And if that’s not enough, there’s a chillout room with storytelling sessions, a graffiti wall to get your creative juices flowing and an opportunity to turn plastic waste into art!

The event is free but admission is by ticket only. For more information about the day and details on how to reserve your place, contact North Edinburgh Arts on 0131 315 2151 or email: admin@northedinburgharts.co.uk