Kirkby Community Fridge

April's looking pretty green, and there's even one ingredient you can forage for free! Do you know it?

It's the wild garlic - it's easy to identify because of the smell (garlicky!) when you crush the leaves, and both the leaf and flower is edible.

Why eat seasonal and local?
☀️ Flavours and nutrients are fully developed = tastier and healthier⁠
🌎 Travelled fewer miles to get to your plate, needs less packaging and resources = better for the environment⁠
😉 Easily available at this time of year = cheaper! ⁠

Can't wait for next month? Jump ahead into our full year calendar here: https://www.hubbub.org.uk/eat-more-seasonally-and-locally-grown-food-make-our-move

We’ve all been there. The recipe asks for a few spinach leaves, but you can only find enormous bags. The solution? A frozen swaption! ❄️

🍃 Swapping fresh spinach for frozen is a win-win!
Say goodbye to wilted spinach not used in time and do something good for the planet by reducing the amount of food you put in the bin by buying frozen.

You'll always have some ready to cook at your fingertips and you can use as little or as much as you need. 👍

🍳 Ideal for using in omelettes and many other delicious meals, spinach is full of nutrients and the goodness is locked in when it's frozen. It also contributes to 1 of your 5 a day!

As Popeye says, “I'm strong to the finish 'cause I eats me spinach.” 💪

So will you swap fresh for frozen❔ Let us know below.

800,000 apples are wasted each day in UK homes. Don’t let them go to waste as these versatile fruits have many uses, all of which you can make in your Panasonic Breadmaker and Combination Oven 👇🏼

🍎Baked Apples
Use a Medium Microwave on your Combi Oven and add cinnamon, nutmeg and sultanas and bake these for a quick and easy pudding.

🍏Apple Blondies
Bake using Convection + Steam on your Combi Oven and find the recipe in our feed for an elevenses treat.

🍎Apple Crumble
Use the Convection setting on your Combi Oven you can make a quick crumble using up any leftover fruits you have.

🍏Apple Cake
Bake on Menu 27 of your Breadmaker and slice into this seasonal apple cake.

We are proud to be supporting the fantastic work of WRAP, and collaborating to show how small changes in our homes, specifically kitchens, can make a big difference to the world we live in.

Love Food Hate Waste - Community

is back! 🙌

Join us from 6th - 12th March as we celebrate life's little wins, from having tomorrow’s lunch sorted the night before to defrosting that extra portion of spag bol for a quick and easy dinner.

Win. Don’t Bin!

Stay tuned for more exciting announcements...

https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/take-action-save-food/food-waste-action-week

Take a leek🥬, I mean peek, at some seasonal British fruit and veg to pear🍐 with recipes this February! Cinnamon apple and pear oatmeal on a chilly morning? Or a cauliflower, broccoli and shallot cheesy bake!

Want to know more about eating local and seasonal ingredients? Check out our full calendar for what to look out for each month. https://www.hubbub.org.uk/eat-more-seasonally-and-locally-grown-food-make-our-move

Get only what you need, save on waste and keep a local small business going.

🥪 Jackie, Campaign Manager for Love Food Hate Waste shared expert advice on Steph's Packed Lunch on Channel 4 this afternoon 🥪

The UK produces 5.9 million tonnes of food waste every year and almost half of that is still edible!

Jackie explained why date labels on food and the changes made recently is so important:

"A range of supermarkets and manufacturers are removing use-by dates.

🥳 It's brilliant news!

They're doing it on products like yogurts, milk, hard cheese and pasteurized juices and it means we can waste less food because we can continue to eat them for longer."

For guidance about the difference between Use-By and Best-Before date labels, check out our date labels blog: 💬

https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/blog/date-labels-ditched-what-means-you

Here's a fab initiative from Asda that's just been announced! 💚

And if you're confused about date labels, our guide will help you make sense of them and as a result, save your food from being thrown away while it’s still perfectly edible...

You’ll be surprised by how much this could save you on your shopping bill by helping you get the greatest value from your food that’s already at home.

👉 https://bit.ly/3XzaZ4w

Please be aware the Kirkbymoorside Community Fridge will not be open Wednesday 28th Decemeber.

It could easily be argued that Boxing Day, and the lazy days between Christmas and New Year known as ‘Twixtmas’, are even better than Christmas Day itself: the pressure of family catering is over, there’s little to do, and best of all, there are lots of lovely leftovers to enjoy! 🎅🥪

Make your festive feast go further this year with our delicious leftovers recipe ideas. 🎄

Find out more in our new blog: https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/blog/best-recipes-christmas-leftovers

🥔🦌 4.4 million potatoes are thrown away every day from UK homes - this weighs the equivalent of almost 12,900 reindeers!

Each little bit of food we waste contributes to climate change. This Christmas we can work towards a better future for our planet by buying just what we need, storing our food correctly and making the most of our leftovers. 🎅

Did you know? Recent research has found that potatoes stored in the fridge can last more than three times as long compared with storage at room-temperature, such as in a cupboard.

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/3VETrTM

1/3 of us want to be more sustainable this Christmas, here's how to start. 🎄 Twisting favourite traditions, doing things that mean more instead of cost more, and even getting a bit thrifty. 🧑‍🎨 Which of these will you and the family give a go?

https://www.hubbub.org.uk/10-ways-to-save-money-and-celebrate-christmas-with-a-sustainable-twist

If you're spending this weekend carving pumpkins with the kids ready for the Halloween celebrations, don't forget there are some great ideas to make sure you don't waste any. It's estimated that 22 million pumpkins go to waste every year but it's rich in vitamins and minerals and can be used in both sweet and savoury dishes.

Get delicious recipe ideas at https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/blog/6-ways-eat-your-halloween-pumpkins

🍎🍂 As autumn gets underway, October is all about glorious gourds and the start of hearty root vegetable season – and the apple harvest, of course!

Celebrating the food that is in season is a fantastic way to honour 🌍

Read our latest post for some October meal plan ideas that make the most of what’s fresh.

You might just find that there are so many delicious uses for pumpkins that you’ll never want to throw them away at Halloween again 🎃

https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/blog/whats-good-eat-month-october

Feeling the baking buzz? 🍰 Ovens are one of the most energy intense pieces of your kitchen, so here are some clever hacks to save energy when baking in the oven - more savings, and more cake! 😄

Do you have any jam jars spare?
Kirkbymoorside Environmental Group need some for the jams, marmalades and chutneys that are being made to raise funds for the Mors Bus. Please drop them round to 4 Tinley Garth or message so pick up can be possibly arranged.
Let's recycle and help the community!
Thank you.

🥒 Cucumbers are more than just versatile - they're rich in many important vitamins and minerals and also taste great in water (or a G+T!).

Did you know you can freshen up cucumber by putting the stalk end in a jar or glass of water in the fridge?

You can pickle a cucumber in just 15 minutes! Find out how on our A-Z Food Storage tool (link in bio) 💚

The summer holidays are here 🙌

This month’s meal ideas are all about making the most of summery ingredients to keep cool and enjoy the flavours of fresh local produce heading in from the fields to our plates.

✅ Get your August meal plans sorted with our tasty suggestions for using up fresh fruit and veg this month, and do let us know what’s on your menu!

https://bit.ly/3Q9OcZS

Fantastic news - Kirkby Community Fridge had their inspection today and received a 5!
We are so grateful to all the volunteers who week in, week out give their time to collect donations of food waste and run the fridge session. Ensuring we run the fridge in a safe and hygienic manner, putting food safety first for the people who visit, is a vital part of what we do. A huge thank you to everyone involved.

Enjoy!

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🍦 It's and what a perfect time to share our strawberry and cream ice pops recipe.

🍓 You can swap out the strawberries and fruit yoghurt for other types of fruit and yoghurt, to use up leftovers from your kitchen!

You can find the full recipe on the Love Food Hate Waste website here: https://bit.ly/3ceQ5AA

📢 Big news! will be introducing 'freeze me' messages to their own brand milk to prevent milk waste!

Milk is in the top 3 most wasted food/drink in the UK, making this addition to the labels even more important.

Well done to Co-op for their commitment helping us all waste less 👏🏽👏🏽

Be a waste warrior: top tips to reduce your food waste | Co-op Blog Some food waste is inevitable, but there’s plenty we can do to make the most of the food we buy. Whether that’s preserving food to make it last longer, or regularly cooking meals with leftovers, together we can all make a difference. We hear from Carly Anderson, founder of Waterloo’s Community...

If you live on your own, you’ll know how hard it can be to buy what you need and get through everything in time.

But with a little planning and cunning use of your freezer, you could even go whole weeks without having to lift a finger in the kitchen 👨‍🍳

Sound too good to be true? Read our latest post and see for yourself…

https://bit.ly/3y0wUrm

A big thank you to S Waind & Sons for their very large donation of pies and flans. We appreciate all donations from local businesses.

We are open this Saturday from 10.30am. Pop in and say hello to our volunteers and save some food from going to waste.

Tomorrow it is , which we think should be celebrated every day! 💚

Households across the globe waste an average of 74kg of food waste per person per year - that’s more than the body weight of an average person 🧍🧍

This is why it is so important that is represented all over the world, celebrating saving food from ending up in the bin 🗑️

We work with hero organisations around the world to spread awareness of how to save food from the bin, and reduce our impact on the environment, including:



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The individual actions we take to save food in our homes, wherever we are on the planet, all adds up and makes a difference.

Thank you to Jill and Jane for promoting the Kirkbymoorside Community Fridge as a Co-op local community fund cause at Kirkbymoorside store on Saturday. It was great to see people interested in how the community fridge saves waste from going to landfill and instead redistributes it in the community.

Please join us at on Saturday 16th April at 10.30am for the store one year anniversary celebrations. We will be there alongside the other Co-op local community fund causes; and .
We have been lucky to have been a Co-op Food share partner since we opened and as a local cause will benefit in the future from the joint donations from Co-op members and '
WE look forward to seeing you there!