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Bags of Taste Delivered to your Door
04 December 2023
Bags of Taste offers a free mentored home cooking course to learn how to make delicious, healthy meals cheaply and designed to be done at home at your own pace over Whatsapp or over the phone. To get you started, they send you a free bag of food to your door with all the ingredients you’ll need for 7 meals.
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Feed your Family for Less
07 October 2022
Sheffield’s Sweet Enough has produced a new digital booklet which aims to help you eat healthier and squeeze more out of your weekly food budget. At this very worrying time for families, with the cost of living rising and people struggling to make ends meet, you’ll find some tasty, quick and healthy recipe ideas and useful shopping tips to support you in the colder months.
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Social Supermarket Can Help You Out
01 October 2021
St Mary’s Social Supermarket is a place where people who are struggling to afford to feed themselves and their family can shop weekly for food. Members can also access activities, help and support to make positive life changes for an initial period of 12 weeks.
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Free Bags of Taste to your Home
16 August 2021
If you are unemployed or receiving benefits and struggle with food costs Bags of Taste can help you to cook healthy meals from scratch to improve your diet and finances. You will get a course ingredients bag and materials, sufficient for 7 meals, delivered free to your home.The next start dates are 6th, 13th & 20th September and courses are run throughout the year.
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Have you been Affected by Food Poverty ?
23 February 2021
The Covid-19 crisis has pushed individuals and families into financial hardship and some people do not have enough money to afford to eat a nutritiously adequate diet. Sheffield City Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee has set up a working group to look at Food Poverty in Sheffield. If you have been affected by food poverty you can let the Council know about your experience on their consultation hub until 14th March 2021 .
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Foods to Boost Your Immune System
14 April 2020
As the Coronavirus situation continues and people are spending most of their time indoors, people are asking what they can do to keep healthy and boost their immune system. As well as keeping physically active, managing your stress levels and getting enough sleep, what you eat plays a large part in keeping healthy. Vitamins and minerals in certain foods can help.
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Calls to Widen Eligibility for Food Delivery Scheme
01 April 2020
There are growing concerns that people with specific medical conditions who are unable to shop for food are still not recognised as eligible for an emergency government delivery scheme. People who need to be self-isolating are still having to visit shops in person as they cannot get the help they need, nor any timeslots they need for online delivery. Remember to keep up to date with the Disability Sheffield Coronavirus Information and Support page, where you can find information about local support groups that provide help with shopping or know of deliveries from food shops in your area.
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Bags of Taste Cooking Demonstrations
02 March 2020
Bags of Taste takes participants from eating unhealthy food to enjoying better diets and healthier finances teaching takeaway-style recipes with a fraction of the salt, sugar and fat. All are nutritious and filling and can be cooked for under £1 a portion. Join Bags of Taste on Wednesdays from 11am to 1.30pm from 4 – 25 March at Zest for Sport ( opposite Zest Centre ) 18 Upperthorpe, S6 3NA. Includes a free lunch .
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Bags of Taste Cooking Demonstrations
04 October 2019
From Poor Diets to Richer Lives, Bags of Taste believe everyone should be able to afford good food. Join Bags of Taste on Fridays from 11am to 1.30pm from 4 – 25 October at St Mary’s Church, Bramall Lane, Sheffield S2 4QZ. Includes a free lunch .
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Love Your Leftovers
03 July 2019
Do you throw much food away? Each year, the UK wastes 5 million tonnes of edible food and drink – enough to fill nine Wembley Stadiums or 4,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. So during this month a campaign has been set up to encourage people to cut down on this. The campaign is entitled Love Your Leftovers and includes a downloadable pack (with handy statistics and resources) and a food waste diary.
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