June’s Bites on a Budget went down a treat

On Friday 6th June we ran a Bites on a Budget session in Midhurst with Waterhaven Place Care Home’s head chef, Anton Korolenko.

These free cookery sessions are designed to educate how to turn everyday ingredients (typical of a foodbank emergency food parcel) into delicious, healthy and budget-friendly meals.

For this session, participants were taught how to cook a creamy chickpea and paprika soup, vegetable and bean stroganoff, and fruit crumble with homemade custard. 

The session went down a treat and the feedback has been extremely positive. One attendee said “I enjoyed making the crumble and the custard from scratch.  It was a lovely experience learning from a chef and meeting other people doing it. I would like to do something like this with my children helping and learning new things”.

Another remarked the session to be “very useful and helpful”, stating “I’m self employed and a carer to my daughter. It’s a really good course, highly organised and with a good chef to help us learn. Highly recommend.”

The group really enjoyed the session, saying the “staff are friendly, I love it” and “I really did enjoy this class. As a full time care giver to my daughter, it has given me some new skills”.

If you have experienced the sharp end of the cost of living and would be interested in attending similar cooking-based workshops in the future, please register your interest by emailing our Campaigns Coordinator Keely Storey – [email protected]. 

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