Last weekend, we extended our daily free school meal replacement deliveries to include weekend DIY meal kits.
These simple kits contain all the ingredients needed to make a meal for a family of five. The inclusion of a fun cook-a-long video link, presented by a Square Food Foundation teacher, gets bored kids helping out in the kitchen and learning about healthy eating. An Easter weekend test run had participant children preparing veg, making fresh pasta ribbons and simmering tomato sauce.
The new DIY meal kit initiative complements our #SquareMeals deliveries. During the Covid-19 school closures, we’ve prepared more than 2500 healthy and delicious meals for some of Bristol’s most vulnerable children and families.
#SquareMeals reaches children and families who rely on Free School Meals to guard their children against food poverty and hunger. The new DIY meal kit scheme provides these same families with an extra meal over the weekend as well as a fun, inclusive activity for children and parents who are stuck indoors.
Watch SFF’s cookalong videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jUtR0ZWnkMOdhbKjBXe9Q
We need to raise £70,000 to continue this service until the end of August. To date, we’ve raised more than £30,000 thanks to donations from you, our friends and supporters as well as corporate gifts and small grants. Now, we’ve secured match-funding to DOUBLE all donations up to £10,000. Thanks to a gift from some generous Square Food supporters (who wish to remain anonymous), every donation made to the appeal (up to the value of £10,000) will be matched.
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