Happy International Women’s Day from our all Female Leadership Team!
What is the secret to being a successful leader (and does it have anything to do with being a woman)?
Hilda’s Warming Winter Soup Recipe
As the temperatures start to drop, warm yourself up with this nourishing, cheap and tasty soup recipe from FoodCycle Felling volunteer Hilda. Happy…
A Day With FoodCycle CEO Mary
Working with our friends at The Charity Times on their monthly ‘Leadership Diaries’ column, we asked our brilliant leader, FoodCycle CEO Mary McGrath…
Check-in and chat in Loneliness Awareness Week
We’re a month on from the launch of our new check-in and chat service, where volunteers call the recipients of our food parcels to check the process ran smoothly and to see how they are, helping to combat feelings of loneliness and social isolation. In that month, we have signed up over 100 new check-in […]
Cook with Cyrus Todiwala
For our next FoodCycle cooking session, we will be joined by renowned chef and TV personality, Cyrus Todiwala. On Tuesday 7th July at 6pm, Cyrus will show you in real-time, how to cook ‘Uppma’, (South-Indian-style porridge) a recipe from his new book, Simple Spice Vegetarian. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask him for his […]
Danilo Cortellini’s Gnochetti with baked cherry tomatoes and Ricotta
Danilo Cortellini’s Gnochetti with baked cherry tomatoes and Ricotta The name Gnocchetti (small gnocchi) could be quite generic in Italian culinary culture. We have potatoes gnocchi, pumpkin gnocchi, bread gnocchi and pasta dough gnocchi like in our case here. In Sardinia the locals call them ‘Malloreddus’ and if you move to southern Italy they are likely to be called Cavatelli, […]
Cook and collect – getting back in the kitchen
Everyone involved with FoodCycle knows how passionate we are about community dining and creating amazing meals out of surplus food. Over the past few months, we haven’t been able to hold our Community meals and in order to continue to provide food for our guests, we have been running a food parcel delivery service. The delivery service was set up as an emergency response, but it […]
New check-in and chat service
Our charitable vision is a society where no one is hungry or lonely. The current situation has meant that our Community Meals, where guests and volunteers come together to eat and socialize, cannot go ahead. We have transformed ourselves into a food parcel delivery service and this week, we are launching our new check-in and […]
How long can you eat food items after their Best Before date?
WRAP (The Waste and Resources Action Programme) has recently released new guidance highlighting that food past its Best Before date remains safe and perfectly good to eat for days, weeks, months or even years after the date – depending on the type of food, and if it has been stored correctly. This week is the […]
Creating content for FoodCycle
You are FoodCycle’s biggest asset and we want to hear from you. Here are some tips if you want to share either pictures or videos with us. We always keep an eye on what our projects upload to social media or what you tag us in, but if you’d like to send us content directly […]
Butternut Squash Loaf
Kimberly’s Recipe You can have this ready in 45mins and it will do for your tea break for the rest of the week. Ingredients 100g Butternut Squash mashed 90g almond flour 10g corn starch 20g desiccated coconut + walnut bits 0.5 tsp baking soda 1.5 tsp baking powder 1tsp turmeric 1 tsp cinnamon 1tsp nutmeg […]
Pao de Queijo with Chilli
Kar Yee’s Recipe Kar Yee is a FoodCycle Bow Road volunteer. Typically Pao de Queijo remains an unadulterated Brazilian speciality but a little experimentation is no bad thing, though you can omit the chilli for a more traditional version. Unlike regular bread, these are wheat-free and have an unusual but morish texture. Think of chewy, […]