CHOMP

@chomp_brighton

CHOMP is a project that provides lunch and activity clubs for families on low incomes feeling the financial pressure during school holidays.
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Today’s @tastyradiobrighton repeat show at 10am show cases the @happy_gut_co who love making their @5oclockapron black bean brownies to snack on supporting busy lives, healthy minds and happy bellies. 🤩🫕💛 Listen in to hear how these brownies are a family favourite with their own signature tune that says it all! ✨Belong Together, Mark Ambor In the therapy kitchen we are big on #banginsomebeans providing cheap and tasty, easy and complete meals that we can all share and enjoy. 🙌🏾 our any time ‘bean feast’ which does a star run in fajitas is a true crowd pleaser, deserving a post of his own! Our @chomp_brighton family workshops get kids involved in the cooking – no such thing as a free lunch – and sitting down to eat together. Being involved in the process creating a #community casserole where everyone plays a part – (it takes a village to raise a meal)– means people feel free to tuck in. My breakfast black bean brownie that was last night’s pudding is full of mud pie magic of my own choosing that feeds the microbiome, imagination and sense of personal power for a Happy Monday How to make these 👯‍♂️ Soak and cook black beans (any left over make a burger or mole perhaps) Bring in their favourite friend, cacao, mine’s from @cacaoco_official Chop dates and find syrup Whisk eggs Collate flours like seeds, almond and the like Melt butter or soak chia seeds Cook and mash sweet potato Flavour with sugar if you like/need, salt, lemon juice, cinnamon perhaps – or whatever YOU chose Bake on medium heat until top crispy on top and gooey underneath Enjoy anytime, with slightly smug grin to power up your week🫕🌅
16 6
21 days ago
Sunday simmer, forgaging and frolicking for lunch 🍀 Ahead of this month’s @radioreverb food and drink show with @tastyradiobrighton , Karen and I enjoyed an early start, finding wild garlic in the woods, followed by a garden treasure hunt on this month’s theme #banginsomebeans 🫕 from an important @food.foundation initiative I keep miso in the fridge and beans in the larder ready for a speedy lunch time meal. Today’s bold beans are a @riverford delivery treat. The @happy_gut_co family will tell us how they power up snacks & meals with the humble but brilliant 🤩bean🤩 Beans, pulses, legumes, lentils are absolute power houses of nutrition but they do need a bit of help from their friends to boost flavour. This time of year our surroundings in Sussex are full of bargain hunt goodies - three cornered leeks might be a weed or nettles a nuisance but my goodness they are delicious and FREE!! With our @chomp_brighton families, we get people picking, chopping and choosing their lunch to connect with the process of feeding ourselves. Even the most resistant youngsters (and their parents) will try things they have the chance to make friends with 1st. Feeling so pleased and proud of what they’ve made 🙌🏾 Being a pack-herd creature, we do love to join in, making what in the therapy kitchen we call a ‘community casserole’ for all to enjoy. Beans are always willing to help out and love being part of the party! Humans love a bargain, so beginning our treasure hunt in our local woods, a trip through the garden and behind the studio, we gathered the bits and pieces we needed for a simply delicious lunch to share, along with plenty of time to plan our shows ahead and we have so much for you to feast on! I made some @samuelwgoldsmith inspired scones to go with our soup, packed full of ground protein packed seeds… delicious Come and join us for an afternoon of conversation, ideas and stories at 2pm (repeated throughout the month) on 97.2fm #kitchentherapychronicles #banginsomebeans #foragingforfun #communitycasseroles
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29 days ago
A little food for Friday 🫕 Kitchen Therapy 🌈has been born out of strong and varied experience that illuminated Mother Nature’s menu plan, whereby food and love make a whole meal, as our word company, from the Latin con panis, with bread, expresses.💫 Hence four key concepts - summarised as ‘rewilding the human spirit’🍀 👩🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏽Attachment nutrition - remembering that dopamine is a relational pathway, rewarding bonding behaviour 🙇🏻‍♀️Creative confidence - remembering to connect with our innate abilities and pure potential 🙌🏾Community casseroles - remembering that it takes a village to raise a meal, each ingredient playing a vital part to the whole dish 🌅Edible spirituality - remembering that Mother Nature is the divine spirit that connects us all in a common language of food This is a programme of practical action from within my home to outside in my community or in conversation online…🙏🏽 My work has taken me to the church lunch club with retired folk and to my @chomp_brighton family workshops that bring youngsters to the table, all supported by the new woodland growth of wild garlic, nettles and dandelions – delicious. Now, at both these events a star player for all seasons is the frozen pea – packed full of nutrition and sharing many qualities of the bean family, full of protein. So it was an absolute delight to meet @samuelwgoldsmith , senior editor at @goodfoodpod (sooo happy with my subscription – which have leant out) to discuss the noble pea and his career, for @radioreverb @tastyradiobrighton Reverb’s food and drink show with Karen Morton. Take a listen to this ( link in bio) and previous shows – last month we interviewed @realizzatodrink about their incredible no waste coffee liqueur – anyone interested in recycling and invention will adore this article. Also on the show was local green grocer, @angmeringvillagegreens Village Greens… who can deliver from the wholesalers directly to your door. Buy and be local, that’s the message – creating attachment nutrition and community casseroles that provide sustainable food for the future. #naturesmenuplan #localfoodheroes #kitchentherapy #banginsomebeans
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1 month ago
Gifts? Wrapped. 🎁 Hearts? Full. ❤️ We’re back at it again, partnering with the amazing @chomp_brighton to bring some festive cheer to underprivileged families across Brighton and Hove. 🌊 Chomp is a local lifeline, providing food, friendship, and support to families who need it most. We’re honored to play a small part in their mission by providing these presents to go alongside their food baskets. Let’s help them keep up the amazing work! Check out / to support their latest appeal. 🥯✨ . #SupportLocal #BrightonAndHove #GivingBack #ChristmasSpirit #FoodSecurity
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4 months ago
Happy Sunday Simmer 🫕 It’s been a while since I’ve posted, the gram isn’t my favourite hang out tbh.  😣 I am grateful for the quick connection it offers but ironically, I find it isolating too.  Sending messages from myself to a busy world is a strange business. 🧐  My happy haunt is making a little mayhem meal with groups like @chomp_brighton Or wandering along a windy beach with a loved one. The feeling of breathing the same air with those I share it with, reminds me of the ultimate oneness of our world. 💫 Playing in the kitchen with local folk, that’s what feeds me the ‘attachment nutrition’ needed, creating ‘community casseroles’ for future proofed food.  🍀 But, I do love a bit of media action, so being part of @tastyradiobrighton @radioreverb show has been such an inspirational delight. 🎤📻🤩  This month I got to meet @cacaoco cooking up a potion on the beach for @rubymoonswim and @yogainthelaines with tunes and hugs from Ben Williams now THAT’s a community casserole, each adding our super spice to the pot.  delicious.  With a couple of cosy studio chats to follow. Today’s show went AWAL but catch us 10am 97.2fm and online tomorrow, and I’ll post link asap! Tune in and tune up fellow campers.  You will LOVE listening in, feeling connected and joining in the party with us. #kitchentherapy #naturalalchemy #localradio #brightonlife #foodforthefuture #beanfeast #spookyspidertreats #latehalloweenpost🎃
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6 months ago
Giving back has never been easier at @thegardenbarhove ! With our new contactless donation devices, you can make a quick tap to support Brighton Food Bank and CHOMP while you’re out enjoying your meal or drink. In just one week, your generosity has already helped raise £70 - proving that small taps really do make a big difference 🫶 Every donation helps fight food waste and feed Brighton families this winter. Tap, dine, and do good 💛 #LoveFood #ShareFood #TapToDonate #BrightonCommunity #FoodForGood #BrightonFood #ZeroWasteBrighton #FeedBrighton #SupportLocal #BrightonRestaurants #CommunityMatters
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6 months ago
Sunday simmer food for the soul 🍎 As September settles, 🍂 let’s consider Nature’s autumnal menu plan. The Harvesting our efforts and talents, the fruits of our labour, reminds us that we are a social species, reliant on one another. 🙌🏾 🫕like all the ingredients in a recipe - each have their unique role and flavour, but they thrive amongst their stew-crew. As @veefinn1 @chomp_brighton video says🌈 Looking forward to re-starting my ‘Cooking for Recovery’ kitchen therapy course @southdown_sussex recovery college tomorrow, I am reminded of teaching how to make a meal, a bit like making a party 💃🏿🧚🏿 - setting the scene with herbs and spice, building atmosphere by inviting guests one at a time, letting the ingredients simmer and sway, harmonising flavours sing the Power of Play - the secret spice of all good food is FUN.🌟 Kitchen Therapy’s book started as a pack of playing cards 🎭 who each had a recipe to share and whose nature would show us how to cook with our creative inner-tutor. 🍅Tomato soup with Grandma’s homegrown pomme d’amour 🍎many moons ago is still living her best life, illustrated beautifully by @jemimakatie completing the family circle of growing, cooking, sharing and making together. You can hear more on this months @tastyradiobrighton @radioreverb food and drink show, link in bio. And if you’re involved in a community venture with food, we’d LOVE to hear from you. Tomato soup-sauce’s signature tune would surely be 🥗 ‘We are Family’ 🥗and seeing the @sistersledgeofficial legends play in Manchester cathedral spoke to kitchen therapy’s catch phrase “Food without love is a world without music” Making food, love and music 🌹Unites 🌓 us in feeding the soul ✨ #spiritualnutrients #makefoodnotfuel #secretspiceofplay #communitycasseroles #cookingforrecovery #kitchentherapychronicals #tomatosoupsbestlife #cookwithintuitionnotprescription
31 6
7 months ago
Sunday simmer… (and missing summer…?) 🧚🏿 Been quiet on here as been busy out there – 🫕cooking up cauldrons of ideas, dinners and connections. 🪺🍄🍀In the woods, at the chopping board, around the stove, many hands making light and lovely work, that’s where I feel at home. 🍂The virtual world of online tech is at odds with kitchen therapy’s plan to rewild the human spirit.🪷 Our first technology surrounds the making and manipulation of fire – where each part of this complex system of food making requires community action, as Nature intended. 🍀🪵 Today’s virtual technology dislocates us from our natural habitat, the kitchen-campfire brings us home.🌍 A little (virtual) glimpse of a summer spent in wild and wonderful food and fun filled events where phones were forgotten and people were re-membered, feeding folk mind, body and soul. 🌟 💫Huge thanks to @forageurban for teaching us how to find our own dinner, to everyone who makes @chomp_brighton the community we need, and to the collaboration with @veefinn1 who captured the spirit to share #A I antidoting #1sttech #findmeintheforest #rewildthehumanimagination #foodforfunction #kitchentherapychronicles
14 1
8 months ago
Community casseroling💫. Bringing folk together around the campfire, cauldron or chocolate bowl takes us into the heart of our humanity – food made together, in spaces large enough to hold & inspire us all, tastes of something we know we need but has no words, just a flavour that lasts and nudges us onwards. I’ve been quiet here, busy creating community casserole events with @flourish and the @youngcarers , with @chomp_Brighton families and building the Kitchen Sessions mission-vision, to share these ideas around. The social media insta-bites are at odds with the kitchen therapy mission to create food to feed a lifetime, to step into the lasting time of yin, feminine energy surrounding the process of meal-making, fire keeping, connection building for us all. On a family note, Carl – he of the chaos bonfire cake some of you may recall, hit 22 – a day after his name sake Carl Jung’s 150th birthday and celebrated a 1st in creative engineering. Who knew, that 6year old’s crazy cake would be so very brilliant. (p.98 in THE book!) Here’s a little chronical of the kitchen therapy antics. Head over to the bio to recap the @radioreverb podcasts – foraging frolics with @urbanforager – strawberry magic with @shansberries the fire keeper @peterdeadman whose ’72 book on macro biotics initiated @infinityfoods mission… 📸 @foodieacademic and me cooking up our training program plans with energy truffles, @thepearcefoundation HQ with @jennylinton1 & @flourishmentors future thinking With @flourish mentors and @young carers making Friday fajitas and those raw chocolate true treats in the most beautiful church hall setting @chomp_brighton families cooking up magic at Stanmer Park’s earthship with @urbanforager . Check the pic of a stinging nettle fall with small hands all helping to heal the wound…🍀💚🙌🏾 Carl of the cake graduating in his own style, 🤩@ullanyman capturing his family made cake, me with my gorgeous, loved beyond measure girls. A homemade community casserole.💞 For fun, here’s my mum in her handmade jacket 40yrs ago, and still going strong around my arms today, like grandmas apron too… not just making food for today, but making love for lifetime s 🦋
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9 months ago
Easter Sunday Simmer, new hope, new life 🧚🏿 check links in bio for Substack and radio reverb offerings Sipping nettle tea and enjoying Easter Sunday’s Observer magazine, late lunch slowly simmering, I’m taking a moment to reflect on the stings and gifts of life, wrapped up together - “Food is at the centre of human connections” 🧙🏾‍♀️ I love stinging nettles (you can hear more on today 2-3pm Radio Reverb food and drink show – full of free nutrition, an outsider relegated to irritating weed, whilst this gentle (if well defended) leaf offers rich nutrition. Like a kitchen therapy session where our most troublesome thoughts hide a treasure trove of healing balm. As Sam from @onechurchbrighton asked the Easter @chomp_brighton gathering to feel the warmth of the sun and think of 3 things to be grateful for, imagining everyone’s goodies held together, I was reminded of Peter Deadman’s ode to miso and potage – a community casserole where we each make a whole and wonderful meal. (listen to Peter’s (founder of @infinityfoodscooperative signature dish story @tastyradiobrighton link in bio) To find out how kitchen therapy works and raise funds for future community casseroles full of rich nutrition for us all, email [email protected]. #kitchentherapyforthesoul #communitycasseroles #cooperationovercompetition #sundayobserver
67 3
1 year ago
Really chuffed to be asked to supply 100 of our Tool Kits for @chomp_brighton to include in their Christmas hampers. These go out to families in the Brighton area who might need a helping hand this Christmas. So pleased that 100 more families get the change to have a little eco fun! What an amazing charity. 💚
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1 year ago
Food for Friday 6th December St Nicholas’s Day 🎄 Super special week as I got to be Mrs Christmas, giving families a double helping of community cheer, gifts from @thewonderbag and @lecreusetuk together with @chomp_brighton workshops @whitehawkfoodbank , making a version of my grandma’s gorgeous tomato soup, loaded with lentils and red veg. A great start to the festive season. The heat retention, slow cook system of @thewonderbag with @lecreusetuk provides a genuine sense of warmth and welfare, much needed at this time of year. So testing for many. The spirit of st Nicholas steaming away. Thank you @sarahcollinsnb for giving me this opportunity 👩🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏽 These workshops are kitchen Sessions CIC’s first gig. Not only bringing supportive, sustainable, fresh and lively meal ideas to @stcuthmans but also a sense of fun and everyday easy adventure into meal making. People easily get locked into isolation for all sorts of reasons. Confidence and laughter are often lost along the way. These sessions bring folk together in the most primal of creative activity. Just as those onions, tomatoes, lentils and the rest know they need each other to make a meal. That’s why @thewonderbag and @lecreusetuk are key to @therapy.kitchen as they take us back in time, when people knew, and know themselves as creatures of the flame. Food 🍅🥕🫕 Folk 👣💋🙌🏾 Fire 💥🪵🔥 So grateful to @east.brighton.trust for first funding these sessions and now the groovy group of partners that join together to create a delicious, festive, community casserole 💃🏿👯‍♂️🕺🏼with Danish soul sister @ullanyeman on 📸 capturing the delicious spirit in the air 🫕🌶️💫 #wonderbagmagic #castironcommunity #stnic #communitycasseroles #kitchentherapyproject #cookingforchange #foodforfamilies #foodsecuritymatters #cookingforliving #dreamjobsdoexist
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1 year ago