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Have you moved to bluesky 🦋 ? Find us at @edincomfood.bsky.social 👋🏻 Give us a follow for updates on our produce, marketplace stall and deliveries, and our nutritionists work in the community 👨🏻🍳
We have made the decision to stop interacting on X. We feel X is no longer the supportive and informative community it was, despite many of us trying to maintain this. Edinburgh Community Food will continue to post via Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn @EdinComFood and regularly update our website: edinburghcommunityfood.org.u…
We hope to see you there.
Thank you.
The Edinburgh Community Food Team
Great to see our @MealsandMoreUK boxes out in the community. Our boxes are filled with nourishing ingredients, recipes, and information resources 📦🥕👩🏾🍳📰 Thank you for sharing @PilmenyDevProj
Huge thanks to @EdinComFood for supporting pilmenys families over summer holidays by donating 15 food boxes with different ingredients & staples such as milk/bread 🥛🍞
This helped take pressure of families who need extra financial support over the holiday time👏🏻
#holidayhunger
Here at Edinburgh Community Food🍓, we respond
to ever-changing needs identified across the communities we support 💸 .We want to see a Scotland where everyone has fair access to money. Chris has written about the development of our Cash First Toolkit: bit.ly/4di2JhE #CashFirst
You are invited to our 2024 AGM! 🍓
We’d love for you to join us on Tuesday 24th September to hear about what we’ve been up to over the past year.
Let us know you’re coming by booking a spot: EdinComFood2024AGM.eventbrit…
We're proud of our joint project with LINKnet mentoring, Eat Well for Oral Health and how it aims to reduce inequalities and improve oral health across Scotland🦷✨Read our project partner Ahmed's blog about how we do this through our community work 🔽
Our latest member blog is from LINKnet mentoring. You can read Ahmed's Blog: Closing the Gap- Addressing Oral Health Inequities in Scotland. A great project doing fantastic work to address health inequalities. tinyurl.com/49tk9cbh
This week is World Breastfeeding Week 2024. The theme is Closing the Gap: Support for All 💜 Progress in Scotland has been made but inequalities still exist. Those who want to continue breastfeeding do not feel supported enough. Scotland = a right to breastfeed a child <2 yrs of age in a public place 👶🏻🤱🏻 Helpful resources @parentclubscotland @NHS_Lothian
Feeding your baby: bit.ly/3WxDsZB
#WBW2024 #BreastfeedingFriendlyScotland #TogetherForMoms
We are delighted to share full access to yesterday's Business page of @TheScotsman which features our CEO, Brenda Black, discussing the role of #EdinburghCommunityFood in tackling food poverty across the city. Please read and share our website page: bit.ly/3WM4Y70 🍓
We are a social enterprise. Every penny donated creates an opportunity for food fun and education 👩🏻🍳🍓 If you would like to support our work further, please donate here: bit.ly/3gLtuTk
Our CEO, Brenda, features in Business @TheScotsman today: bit.ly/3StuMlW Brenda discusses the role of Edinburgh Community Food in tackling food poverty across the city using a holistic approach, applying earlier interventions to support those in need.
We are a social enterprise. Every penny donated creates an opportunity for food fun and education 👩🏻🍳🍓 If you would like to support our work further, please donate via our website here: bit.ly/3gLtuTk.
For more information, contact Karen at 📧 [email protected] or call 📞 0131 467 7326
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Read all about a week in the life of a Food & Health Development Officer at Edinburgh Community Food! 🍓 edinburghcommunityfood.org.u… Theodora has had a busy week! 😃👩🏻🍳#edinburghfoodcharity
The @Food_Foundation latest #FoodInsecurity Tracker shows that 7.2 million adults experienced food insecurity in June 2024:
🏠 Households with more children are more likely to be food insecure.
🍝 food must be made more #affordable
🧒🏻End the 2-child benefit cap
📈 Nearly 10 million adults and children are struggling to afford basic essentials such as food, according to our latest #FoodInsecurity Tracker.
And households with children in the poorest 5th of the population would have to spend 70% of their disposable income to afford a healthy diet.
More findings: ➡️ bit.ly/3WAuyvN
#CostOfLivingCrisis #FreeSchoolMeals
ALT Food insecurity graphic
Stages of delicious food:
1. Chop up food 👩🏻🍳
2. Taste food 😋
3. Thumbs up! 👍🏻
It is important that children are exposed to different foods and given the opportunity to chop, explore, taste and play with food. These exposures can influence a lifelong #positive relationship with food and cooking.
Please share 🍓
Applications for free:
😋 school meals,🥛 Milk, 🧥 School clothing are open for the 2024/25 school year. Applications must be in by 31st July 2024. Apply here: edinburgh.gov.uk/food-clothi…
Free school meals, milk and school clothing grant applications are open for the 24/25 school year.
You must apply by 31st July 2024 if you want to receive your award before the new term begins on the 14th August 2024.
For more information, visit: edinburgh.gov.uk/food-clothi…
Interesting report from @bridging_gap_uk 📑 Inspiring to read about what other countries are doing to make #climate and #nature friendly food accessible to all—policy and programme examples from India, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Sweden and the USA +. Check it out below 👇🏻
📣New report📣
@bridging_gap_uk launch international #foodpolicy review bringing together case studies from the UK and around the world that support access to healthy and #naturefriendly food for all.
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Huge thanks to @BurgesSalmon for their incredible #donation of £3,333.33 towards our community food work in Edinburgh, working to make sure everyone has equal access to nourishing food🍓 Lovely to meet Eilidh who came to meet us and hear more about our projects #edinburghfoodcharity
We love broccoli in soups, stir fries, and pasta dishes. Our broccoli stem pesto is delicious for using up the stem of a broccoli. Broccoli is even lovely grated into coleslaw and salads. What's the most inventive way we could use up broccoli? 🥦🥦 #recipeideas
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Have you visited our #YouTube Channel? 📹👩🏻🍳 We have a selection of cooking videos, including step-by-step videos of our Take & Make meal kits being made. Head over to our channel here: youtube.com/@edincomfood 🍓
