Feeding Liverpool, Alchemic Kitchen and chef Adam Franklin launched the Fed-Up Slow Cooker Training Programme, teaching practical, communal cooking courses to bring together and equip community members to make delicious, nutritious, low-maintenance meals on a budget, in a friendly atmosphere to help combat loneliness and social isolation.
The Fed-Up course, led by chef Adam Franklin, started in 2014 as a course designed to help supplement foodbank parcels to maximise the amount of meals that could be prepared by adding fresh food, a slow cooker and the training to effect change. It has developed into a network of people from community settings connected together to use their new practical skills, support each other and connected into other community projects.
As part of the legacy of the work done during the pandemic, we have been working with Livv Housing and the team at Horse and Jockey pub to deliver AQA accredited slow-cooker cooking lessons to people in Knowsley.
Participants attend weekly classes where they learn to make easily replicated, healthy, affordable meals with as little food waste as possible.
At the end of the course, everyone is given a pantry bag with a range of basic store cupboard items, a slow cooker, a fresh food parcel and a binder filled with all the recipes they’ve learnt. It is great to see people adding to these binders with recipes they have found themselves as their confidence in the kitchen increases.
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60% less
Slow cookers typically use over 60% less energy than ovens, are simple to use for creating healthy meals
2014
Led by chef Adam Franklin, the Fed-Up course designed to help supplement foodbank parcels and maximise meal ideas
Weekly
Participants attend weekly classes to learn to make easily replicated, healthy, affordable meals with minimal food waste
We’re looking for friendly, enthusiastic people who are already involved in their local communities to take part in our Trainer Courses. This could be through volunteering, being an active member of a community group or community food space, or through working in an organisation connecting with communities in Liverpool.
No previous cooking experience is required, just a passion to share what you learn with others and a willingness to lead a community cooking course after completing the training.
All we ask is that, after completing the Fed-Up Slow Cooker Trainer Course, you commit to passing on these vial skills and information and share your experience through practical cooking demonstrations in your own community.
To join the waiting list for future sessions please email Colin Pryor on [email protected]
