Square Food Foundation, July 2020

20,000 meals and counting...

Late last week we cooked, packaged and distributed our 20,000th meal - a milestone in more ways than one.

When we launched the #SquareMeals appeal, we never imagined we'd raise enough to sustain this emergency meal service into what is now its 20th week.

But you surpassed every expectation, donating an INCREDIBLE £43,000 to keep children and families from going hungry.

Add to that the support we've received from grant-making organisations and we've raised enough to extend the #SquareMeals mission AND our Virtual Cooking Club (more on that below) until the end of the Summer holidays.

Any donations we receive from now on will be used to adapt and extend these services across our community. In the pipeline are plans for a community pantry, a family cooking club and training courses that improve life chances for Bristol's young people. Watch this space and THANK YOU for all of your support.

Healthy Holidays with Feeding Bristol

We loved playing a small part in Feeding Bristol's Healthy Holidays project. Along with 91 Ways & the Children's Kitchen, we spent a happy Saturday filming ten short videos, each presented by a different family from Bristol. These short videos and costed recipes were created to provide inspiration and support for families over the Summer holidays.

Next stop, the cooking roadshow - a series of 50 #healthyholidays sessions that take place across the city. Designed to support families at risk of food insecurity, find out more at The Children's Kitchen & check out all the recipes and videos at Feeding Bristol

Cook-along with Barny!

Back in April, we put together a DIY meal kit for a few local families, to give them something fun and productive to do during lockdown. The kits include a bag of pre-weighed ingredients, a recipe sheet and the link to a step-by-step video tutorial featuring one of Square Food's teachers. What started small has now bloomed into the SFF virtual cooking club.

Over the last few months, we've sent out 430 kits and, thanks to fabulous volunteer cameraman, Will Lindsay Perez there are now fifteen recipe videos that anyone can cook along to! Choose from pancakes or perfect poached eggs (above) with Barny and Flapjacks or Focaccia with Charlotte.

Happy Cooking!

Square Food does the School Run

School's out for the Summer! But that hasn't stopped us continuing to deliver daily #SquareMeals to local families. And with most teachers taking a well-earned break over the summer holidays, the Square Food team has stepped in to help with the deliveries.

A recipe for July

Wherever you find yourself this Summer. make your own holiday with Barny's recipe for pasta with fresh pesto.

Square Food in the Telegraph

Square Food was given top billing in Jess Carter's feature for the Telegraph in which she wrote about the need to extend the free school meal voucher scheme throughout the Summer holidays.

Square Food on the BBC

In response to the government's new strategy for reducing obesity, Barny was interviewed by Emma Britton on BBC Radio Bristol. Click here to listen again (fast forward to around 2h:07)