Bread n Butter CIC

Our new Cook and Share classes start at Grahame Park on 1st October. Please contact us to book your place. You can also just come for lunch if you don’t fancy taking part in the cooking.

30 bean stew recipe meal kits delivered to to promote our food demo next week to show residents who to cook low budget healthy meals using a variety of beans and pulses, part of the Lesn Bean campaign by

Woo hoo! We are super excited to share this news!
Golden Grants events happened across over 100 Tesco stores and Bread n Butter was one of the lucky groups chosen to receive £5000 in Golden Grants Funding.

Golden Grants is part of the Tesco Stronger Starts programme which provides funding for children for healthy food and activities.

This funding will be used to provide easy to follow healthy Recipe Meal Kits to children across primary schools in the borough of Camden. These recipes give children and parents the opportunity to make a healthy family meal together from scratch.

We will also be providing step by step videos to go alongside the videos to show parents and children how to make the recipes they receive.

We are excited to announce our new project ‘Get cooking Confident’ where we will be delivering a series of cooking demos across food banks in Barnet & Enfield showing clients how to make easy simple recipes using store cupboard and seasonal ingredients. This project is funded by . Here is our director Vicki making a simple bean stew using tinned beans and sweetcorn.

Our partners at Grahame Park Estate .of.e.cic Since 2019 we have been providing our services to the residents of the Grahame Park estate in Colindale.
It was a real honour on Friday celebrating the estate’s history and heritage at the Past Present and Future exhibition. Lovely seeing residents and community groups come together to share this piece of work.
Through our work we not only teach people about healthy eating in a budget but we see just how food can bring people together. Connecting people from various cultural backgrounds to come together and ‘break bread’ sharing stories and evoking memories.
This is what we wanted to create with our first ever Grahame Park community recipe book which we launched on Friday.
The book is currently with the printers and we will keep you updated once it’s ready!

We are excited to share that our director Filomena has been awarded a place on the Barnet Community Food Growing Network Leadership Programme.
Barnet Council are training a new group of community food growing leaders in the hope of more community gardens being created around the borough.
The programme runs from April until October. We are very excited to be working together with a group of community members who all share the same passion and drive. The aim is to create a new growing space from bare ground to a thriving space for all the community to enjoy and learn from.
A big thank you to our Les Moore and Brigid Falconer who our trainers for the leadership programme and will be guiding the team through the growing season ahead. 
Watch this space!

What a lovely Christmas meal we made at our community cooking class in North Rd community centre Burnt Oak. Our community cooking classes have now paused until January. We will be back Tuesday 9th January 10.30-12.30pm. Please email us on:[email protected] to book your place. These classes have been funded by

‘I love coming to these after school cooking sessions it’s so much fun and the food we cook is so tasty’ feedback from a pupil from Chalkhill School in Brent - says it all really! Thanks to funding from we are back at this lovely school running free family after school cooking sessions. Last week was Mexican week and we made: chicken fajitas, mushroom tacos, guacamole, sweetcorn and tomato salsa and spiced carrot cupcakes (not Mexican but very tasty)

We have some exciting news about a project we are piloting across Barnet
Since September our director Filomena, a registered nutritional therapist, has been working in partnership with the social prescribers across Barnet, offering clients a free one hour Diet MOT.
This free service is available to adults referred to by their GP or social prescriber based on the following criteria:
* Those who want a one-off initial consultation for making positive diet changes to improve their health and wellbeing
* Ready to engage with the process focusing purely on diet changes
* Be able to access email / smart phone
* Low health risks (physical and mental health)

The project has proved to be very popular and we are seeing an increase number of referrals from clients with various health issues seeking dietary advice by a qualified professional.

Yesterday we had the pleasure of running a healthy eating cooking demo with adults living in Barking and Dagenham with a learning disability, on the Eat Well, Live Well and Feel Great (ELF), programme which aims to increase physical health and wellbeing through physical activity and healthy eating sessions. We made pea and sweetcorn fritters which went down a storm. We discussed what other healthy foods we could eat these with and what other vegetables we could substitute with too. It was a great session and lovely to meet everyone.

Enjoy a free cooking experience and learn how to make traditional Ukrainian and British dishes at our free cultural cooking class in November - details in the flyer - email book your place

Our FREE community Cook & Share classes are back at West Hendon. Come along meet new people and learn to cook healthy tasty recipes. Contact us to book your place

Our director Vicki was at the Autism Empowerment conference run today. Sharing some tasty healthy breakfast recipes. Our free Community Cooking Together classes take place in Edmonton every Wednesday and Thursday 10.30-12.30 email [email protected] to book - everyone is welcome

Our free community Cook & Share class are back at West Hendon Community Centre 11am-1pm every Thursday
Gladwell House Perryfield Way
Hendon
NW9 7DZ
This week we made a selection of tasty Italian recipes. Sicilian caponata, tomato bruschetta and chicken cacciatore.
Iman a local resident said ‘These dishes are so tasty. I thought Italian food was just pasta and pizza

Call all residents. We will be producing a recipe book full of recipes suggested by residents living in and around the . Full details on the flyer. The book will be a celebration of all the cultural backgrounds and identities of residents from Grahame Park and will be given to residents free of charge. If you have any recipes you would like to share and see printed in the book please send them to [email protected]

Hi it’s Filomena here! So glad I got to briefly visit the at the Good Kitchen a community kitchen he has created in my parents home town in . Not knowing the language or the culture Danny set up shop in this small town in the heart of Sicily with a vision to help those in need via the medium of food. He has united people from all over the world thst come and volunteer their services cooking meals together to give out to those in the community that need them most. It was wonderful chatting and sharing what we do and finding a common ground in our visions in helping our communities via the medium of food. Although miles away our communities have very similar health, economic and social issues. You can certainly feel the love at the Good Kitchen - for many it’s a happy place where they can connect with others and forget their worries for a while. Where the young and old come to cook and share meals together. keep doing what you are doing we are all behind you. Watch this space as Danny has some great plans for the future of The Good Kitchen.

End of week 1 BACE camps at Canada Villa - celebrating South Asian Heritage month with families and kids. From fragrant fish curries, spiced fritters & flatbreads, Naankhatai and more!

We are looking for 3-4 volunteers to help us assemble family Summer hampers that will be given to vulnerable families across Barnet. The hampers contain an easy to follow recipe and ingredients to make a healthy meal for a family of four.
We need 3-4 volunteers on Tuesday 1 August 10am-1pm Snacks and refreshments will be provided. This will take place at the Barnet Food Hub at 85 Brookhill Rd, London, Barnet EN4 8SG - parking available. Please let me know if you are interested and feel free to share. Would be great for any young person doing their DofE.

Yesterday we had the pleasure of meeting the Arch Bishop of Canterbury who was visiting the food bank volunteers at St Peter’s Church in Edmonton.
We partnered up with the St Peter’s food bank in 2020 and continue to support them by donating any surplus food on a weekly basis that we receive from that we cannot use for our classes.
The food bank runs every Tuesday and anyone can attend.

A big thank you to for donating these amazing hand mixers which we can use across our community hubs and I’m schools when we are delivering our healthy eating workshops and community cooking classes - thanks so much for supporting us

Beatrice lives in Edmonton and has been coming to our family after school cooking classes for a while now. Here she tells us the positive impact it has had on her:
‘ I came to bnb cookery classes I didn't know how to cook and I thought I didn't like cooking. Now I know I actually like to cook'

Our families getting stuck in cooking some healthy family favourites at our Family H.E.L.P after school classes funded by - this week families made chicken goujons wraps, sweetcorn and tomato salsa and low sugar chocolate chip cookies which all went down very well

Spreading the word at the Healthy Beginnings Roadshow at organised by - lovely connecting with other community groups and meeting local residents and their children. We are running free community cooking classes in every Thursday starting from 15th June - see earlier posts for more details and booking info

We start a new set of FREE community cooking classes at North Road Community Centre, Burnt Oak on 15th June. Open to the community from North Road Estate plus neighbouring .

To book, please email [email protected] or call on 07734054649

The aim of the classes is to help community members to:

- gain a better understanding of what a 'balanced diet' looks like

- make more informed choices about the food they buy and eat and holistic wellbeing

- feel more connected in their community through the provision of a safe warm space where they will socialise and have access to nutritious food which they will also be able to takeaway

- learn new skills and energy efficient and cost effective recipes which they can replicate at home

- understand that healthy food is also very tasty and not expensive

Presenting the Bread n Butter team. A big thank you all of you for all your hard work and dedication. We wouldn’t be what we are without you. Watch this space as we will be introducing our individual team members to you soon. Our team is continuously expanding. If you are looking for flexible working across Barnet or Enfield, like dealing with people and have a passion about food please contact us team

Come along to our FREE Eid cooking workshop funded by . Our Pakistani cookery leaders Huma and Sobia will be on hand to show you how to prepare and cook some of the delicious dishes they cook for their family to celebrate Eid. Book soon to reserve your place - details in the flyer

Piumika a resident from Edmonton Green has been attending our community cooking classes for a few years now. Last week she bought in her folder to show us all the BnB recipes that she has saved since coming to our classes - and was so pleased to be able to share them with her mum and friends outside of the class.

🥘At Bread n Butter we firmly believe food is about celebrating our identity and our culture. It’s what brings people together and unites us despite our differences. It’s about community, comfort, joy and heritage.
🧑‍🍳And yesterday was definitely testimony to this when we ran the first community cooking session with asylum seekers living across Barnet delivered in partnership with and
🌎Kurdish and Albanian women living in temporary accommodation came together to cook recipes from their home countries and share their cultural cuisine.
They made traditional dishes from their home countries ‘Sup me patate’ and ‘koofteh tabrizi’ One participant said: ‘I haven’t made these for a whole year. Thank you so much for this opportunity it means so much for us’
🍽️And the best part was sitting around a table and enjoying the amazing feast together!

Our family cookery sessions start back up at the Edmonton hub tomorrow for 4 weeks. If you have children age 5 plus live around Edmonton Green shopping centre, we'd love to see you at our classes.we will be making a variety of recipes which you'll eat in class, and there are always leftovers to take home. Please email [email protected] to secure your place.

Happy 80th birthday to Rose! We surprised Rose with a cake and card at our community cooking class at Grahame Park. Rose has been attending our classes since 2019 and attended the very first class we ever delivered at Grahame Park. She’s a pleasure to have in our class and is constantly helping others and sharing her cooking tips and techniques. Happy birthday Rose we hope you enjoy your celebrations 🥳🥳