Waste Not Pantry Project 🌳 Satellite Club Initiative
February Bulletin Update supplied by Ann Richardson
With school starting and families back into routine, the Granite Belt Food Support Scheme Pantry stores needed restocking with our jams, sauces, pickles and chutneys. Local school Breaky clubs needed jams too - red jams, of course!
We had done well at local and Beachmere Christmas markets in selling more upmarket products to build our seed funds for this year's production. A large batch of bottles and sugar was purchased.
Two cooking days were held - 12 and 26 February at Suttons. David Sutton has helped us become more efficient - he now cooks large quantities in his commercial cookers and we use Sutton's commercial processors to prepare fruit and veges. Our members and friends still prepare and cook small batches of more specialised produce.
Big batch simple products like Grape and Apple Jam, Peach and Nectarine Jam and Tomato Relish will be labelled with black and white labels and sent to the schools and pantry. Other produce like Spicy Tomato ketchup, Plum Sauce, Mixed Berry Jam and Capsicum Relish will be prepared for Rotary Raffles, gifts for guests and street stalls with coloured labels.
A total of 676 bottles were made on the two Sunday mornings in February. What an effort!
Thankyou to all who provided and collected produce, brought resources to Suttons. prepared produce ready for cooking and to those who cooked up a storm! Thanks also to those who have been selling the product at markets etc. A special thanks to Ros and David Sutton who do the planning and offer their Commercial facilities.
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This is quite a unique project which provides everyone with an opportunity to be involved in a variety of ways.
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