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Refill shop in Cirencester

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Planet B opened in Lancashire in February 2020 in order to create an alternative shopping experince to supermarkets, to allow the people of Rawtenstall and further afield to fill their baskets with plastic free dried foods, cleaning products, household/personal essentials and more..

Planet B, March 2020

It has featured on Radio and local newspapers, and despite having to deal with a pandemic, flooding, and changing to home deliveries instead of in store shopping, the first year has been a great success. The range of products has doubled already and we are always looking for ways to add shelving for more stock!

We are so delighted that in our first year of opening, we have saved hundreds of pieces of plastic from being used unnecessarily, and we have had the privilege to meet lots of lovely customers too, all wanting to reduce their waste or taking their first steps in to living a more earth friendly lifestyle. We have made friends, made mistakes, but most importantly made a difference to a small town.

It's been challenging and incredible. But it is time to expand to support another local community close to me.

Planet B, April 2021

Having lived in Cirencester between 1997 to 2013, I attended Deer Park School and Cirencester College, the Princes Trust Volunteers, worked in Dobbies, the Friar Tuck, Seventeen Black and I have also DJ'ed in ReVa on several occasions as my alias, LilRockit.

It was due to my younger sister, Lyndsey, having a brain tumour and needing treatment that I left Cirencester and moved to the North to care for her until she died in 2014, where afterwards we as a family set up the charity Purple Heart Wishes based in Cirencester in her memory to grant wishes for terminally ill adults over 18.

I miss the community spirit and friends that I made in Cirencester and I consider it my hometown. Thankfully I have family there still and can visit during normal times. This is why I would love to set up my second shop here.

There is a big community in Cirencester that are crying out for a zero waste, plastic free, refill shop in the centre of town. It is the ideal location to inspire others, including tourists to the area, to make plastic free and earth conscious choices. The ethos of the shop is to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Based on the Survey that I shared on the Cirencester Facebook group, we will be providing the community with:

Dried loose Foods

Jarred and Tinned produce

Liquid Refills

On the Go Essentials

Feminine Hygiene Care

Male Grooming Products

Kitchen and Bathroom Essentials

Books & Childrens Toys

Planet D(og)

These will come as Plastic Free, Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Vegetarian, Vegan, Organic, Ethically and as Locally sourced as possible - Phew!

From our survey results, you have also requested:
- Dried fruit and Nuts (This was supposed to have been an option on the survey sorry!)
- Loose Teas
- Cloth Nappies
- Container Varieties
- Sweets
- Spices & Herbs
- Friendly, helpful staff
- Childrens Toys

(I like to source local stock at Planet B, so I would be interested to hear from anyone that makes homemade and handmade products such as soaps and makeup wipes that would fit with the shops ethos. If you think your brand will fit in to our shop or know someone that is a maker, please get in touch and send us a wholesale price list - we want to support the community!)

We don't expect our wonderful new customers to foot the whole bill for a new shop. We have been saving all year as we knew the time would come to open in Cirencester! However we do need some help in order to take the shop to the next level to the current standard that Planet B in Lancashire is now, ensuring a smooth fit out and to buy a few large exciting purchases to make this work. The shop we have sourced in Cirencester is also twice the size!

Planet B will be purchasing all new stock, and paying for all the legal bits such as insurance and deposits. However, without your support the shop will not be able to open - and we really want to!

- Shop fit out (all shelving for new products, displays, signage, counter, attachments for the dispensers, storage, joiners etc.) - £3400

- Electronic Scales: When it gets busy, these scales will be able to help assist with weighing and pricing quickly - £2630

- Scoop bins, gravity dispensers and Jars for ease of filling - £2600

We are really looking forward to helping the community of Cirencester make a difference with the way they shop. If it is one small change or lots of big changes, every step matters.

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Planet B is coming to Cirencester - Help us open!

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Planet B opened in Lancashire in February 2020 in order to create an alternative shopping experince to supermarkets, to allow the people of Rawtenstall and further afield to fill their baskets with plastic free dried foods, cleaning products, household/personal essentials and more..

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Stop Food Waste Day 28th April

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We Fight Food Waste!

Our mission at Stop Food Waste Day is to ignite change regarding the global food waste issue. We do this by drawing attention to the problem, at the same time educating through engaging with society at all levels and sharing practical, creative and impactful ways we can all change our behaviour to minimise food waste.

33% of all food produced globally is lost or wasted every year

45% of root crops, fruit and vegetables produced globally is lost or wasted per year

$1,866 the annual cost of food wasted by the average American family

25% of the food wasted globally could feed all 795 million undernourished people in the world

8% of all greenhouse gas emissions each year are due to food loss and waste

HOW CAN YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

WANT TO JOIN OUR VIRTUAL EVENT ON APRIL 28TH?

FIGHT FOOD WASTE WITH US! TAKE THE PLEDGE AND SHARE IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA

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We Fight Food Waste! Our mission at Stop Food Waste Day is to ignite change regarding the global food waste issue. We do this by drawing attention to the problem, at the same time educating through engaging with society at all levels and sharing practical, creative and impactful ways we can all change our behaviour to minimise food waste.

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The Kitchen Club is passionate about teaching cooking and nutrition to this generation of primary school aged children in England, enabling them to make healthy food choices throughout their lives.

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The Kitchen Club is passionate about teaching cooking and nutrition to this generation of primary school aged children in England, enabling them to make healthy food choices throughout their lives.

Schools are finding that they have quite a few hurdles to overcome; resources, time, space and equipment to name but a few... We are so passionate that children should learn to cook to feed themselves well for life, that we developed a one stop solution for schools. We plan our lessons with the class teachers involvement, bring in the equipment, ingredients, kitchen, teacher and lots of enthusiasm and deliver lessons to the children, no matter how big or small the school.

We deliver cooking lessons in classrooms, whole school cooking days, holiday workshops and cooking parties.

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The Kitchen Club is passionate about teaching cooking and nutrition to this generation of primary school aged children in England, enabling them to make healthy food choices throughout their lives. Schools are finding that they have quite a few hurdles to overcome; resources, time, space and equipment to name but a few...

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Dobbies/Saisburys

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We have partnered with surplus food app, Too Good To Go, in a bid to combat food waste across our stores.

Leading the food waste revolution, Too Good To Go lets people buy surplus food and drink from restaurants, grocery stores, pubs and producers to stop it from going to waste. Consumers simply download the free Too Good To Go app and search for nearby businesses with unsold produce. They then purchase a 'Magic Bag' and collect it at an allotted time.

Customers are able purchase a Magic Bag in 43 Dobbies foodhalls across the UK, filled with fresh and delicious surplus food that would ordinarily go to waste. With an RRP of £12-14, the Magic Bags are available to buy for £3.99.

Too Good To Go Magic Bags are available to purchase in the following Dobbies stores: Aberdeen, Ashford, Atherstone, Aylesbury, Ayr, Birtley, Boston, Braehead, Brighton, Carlisle, Chesterfield, Cirencester, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Gailey, Gillingham, Gloucester, Gosforth, Hare Hatch, Harleston Heath, Havant, Huntingdon, Liverpool, Livingston, Milngavie, Milton Keynes, Moreton Park, Morpeth, Northampton, Perth, Peterborough, Ponteland, Preston, Reading, Rugby, Sandyholm, Shepton, Shenstone, Southport, Stapleton, Stirling, Stockton, Stratford Upon Avon, Swansea, Telford and Woodcote Green.

Download the Too Good To Go App here

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Skip to main content We have partnered with surplus food app, Too Good To Go, in a bid to combat food waste across our stores. Leading the food waste revolution, Too Good To Go lets people buy surplus food and drink from restaurants, grocery stores, pubs and producers to stop it from going to waste.

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Cheltenham group - distribute food

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It might seem like your money doesn't stretch that far these days, but healthy eating doesn't have to be expensive. By making some savvy swaps and even growing your own fruit and veg you can make some healthy and tasty meals and save money.

Here's our guide to healthy eating on a budget.
Make a meal plan
Planning your meals will help make healthy eating on a budget easy, and it will save you money. It's easier to include a variety of different foods in your diet when you make a plan and you can think about what you'll do with your leftovers to make your money go further too.
Stock up on staple foods
Pasta, rice, and oats are cheap, full of nutrients, and they'll keep you feeling full for longer. Beans and lentils are also cheap and full of protein and they can be added to recipes to make your meals go further. Other good staple options for healthy eating on a budget include sweet potatoes, onions, bananas, and frozen peas.
Buy your fruit and veg from the market
Locally-grown fruit and veg is cheaper than supermarket produce because it doesn't come with the plastic packaging and it hasn't been flown halfway across the world. Because it hasn't been sitting on a supermarket shelf for weeks, it'll contain more nutrients too.
Opt for supermarket own brand goods
Most branded goods are no different from supermarket own brand items, but they cost more because there's a lot of clever marketing behind them. You can save a lot of money and still get all of the health benefits by swapping big brands for the supermarket's own.
Recipes for healthy eating on a budget

If you want some ideas for healthy budget-friendly recipes, our lovely Ali has some inspiration.
Bread
There's always plenty of bread available for you to take away at our #ReduceWaste food project. Bread is suitable for freezing and it can be used to make fresh breadcrumbs. Stale bread is best, though any bread is perfectly fine. Just put it in a food processor or blender and whizz it up into breadcrumbs.

Use it to coat chicken, fish, or mushrooms for a vegetarian option then shallow fry to make your own 'Fakeaway' food. Check out this recipe for chicken goujons from Sainsbury's.
https://recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/chicken-goujons
Another favourite in my house is bread pudding. It can be eaten warm with ice cream or cold in a lunchbox or picnic. It's really moreish and it's a great option for families who want to eat well on a budget.
Potatoes - Loaded Skins
Bake jacket potato sized spuds in the microwave or oven. Cut spud in half, (carefully as it will be very hot). Scoop out the potato into a bowl. Leave the skin to one side.

Mash the potato with butter. Add your filling of choice, it could be leftover chicken, spag bol, beans ,curry. I like cooked bacon and cheese. Stir into potato. Scoop mash mix into skins. Add grated cheese and chopped spring onion (optional). Place 'skins' on to a heatproof dish and put under the grill until golden brown.

This is another quick, cheap, and healthy option that can be used as a main meal if you bulk it up with veg or salad. They can also be eaten cold at summer picnics or added to a lunchbox.

Here's a recipe I love from Tesco.
https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/loaded-potato-skins.html Reduce Waste Great Taste Cooking Session

If you want to get the kids interested in healthy eating, come along to my cooking session on Wednesday 2nd June from 12:30-1:45pm. We will be making Pan Pizzas using food items from SPTM Big Local's Reduce Waste Food Project.

Contact Ali on 07864721616 to book

Parents/carers supervision required. £1.50 per child £4.00 per family (3 plus kids)

All money raised goes back into Big Local projects.
Ever wanted to grow your own fruit and veg
This is the ultimate way to eat healthily on a budget. If you grow your own fruit and veg, you'll know that it hasn't been sprayed with any questionable pesticides. It can also be really rewarding to include things you've grown with your own hands in your recipes.

But where do you start?

If you are just thinking about venturing into growing your own produce, we recommend starting off with things that don't need a lot of maintenance, are ready to harvest in a short time, and that aren't prone to pests and diseases.

Why not try?...

Salad leaves: Grow rocket and oak-leaf lettuce for your summer side salads. They can be sown in pots and you can sew a few different varieties together so you can make some colourful salads.

Bush tomatoes: These are easy to grow in hanging baskets, pots, or indoor/outdoor greenhouses. Add them to sauces, make a salsa, or chop them up to add some sweetness to your summer salad.

Peas: These can be added to soups and curries and they're easy to grow. Varieties like 'Half Pint' don't need stalking and can be grown in a container.

If you don't have space to grow your own fruit and veg at home, there's space in the greenhouses and raised beds in the Tewkesbury Road Rest Garden. If you haven't been along, we'd love you to get involved.
Come and see what it's all about!

Whether you've never been along to the Rest Garden before or you're a regular, we'd love you to come to our open day on Friday 4 th June from 12-4pm.

It's going to be an open afternoon of gardening activities, wildlife talks, a plant sale, and crafts for the community to enjoy. We hope to see you there!

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It might seem like your money doesn't stretch that far these days, but healthy eating doesn't have to be expensive. By making some savvy swaps and even growing your own fruit and veg you can make some healthy and tasty meals and save money. Here's our guide to healthy eating on a budget.

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Run a local foraging event.

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Blackthorn ( Prunus spinosa) is best known for its tart, acidic fruits - sloes - used to make the deep-red, wintry drink, sloe gin (Photo: M Barton/WTML)

The fruit of crab apple ( Malus sylvestris) makes the most amazing crab apple jelly. It's also a good source of pectin for setting jams (Photo: R Siegel/Wikimedia Commons)

Woodlands are great places to find wild food, but make sure you collect responsibly. With our guide you can forage sustainably without harming woods or wildlife.

For many people, collecting and eating wild plants and fungi has been part of life since childhood. For others, gathering wild food is a more recent activity.

Hedgerows and woodlands can be great places to forage for free food. You'll find a host of edible species ready to be transformed into jams, soups, cordials, wrappings, beers, wines and liqueurs. They include old favourites like elderflower, blackberries and sloes to the slightly more unusual common sorrel and fat hen.

Please follow our responsible foraging guidelines when you're out and about foraging for plants and fungi. They will ensure you forage sustainably and responsibly, and make sure you stay safe and within the law.

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Woodlands are great places to find wild food, but make sure you collect responsibly. With our guide you can forage sustainably without harming woods or wildlife. For many people, collecting and eating wild plants and fungi has been part of life since childhood. For others, gathering wild food is a more recent activity.

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We could create a recipe book of Cirencester related recipes that use up food and stop it from being wasted.

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Cirencester Foodbank | Helping Local People in Crisis

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The Long Table is a community interest company, working to change the world through food.

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The Long Table is a community interest company, working to change the world through food.

Since we were founded in 2018, we've delivered 40,000 meals through the Feeding the 5000 initiative in 2020, have provided food to NHS staff when they needed it, as well as establishing a county-wide Freezers of Love network, where people can access great, healthy food, paying what they can for it.

There are four areas we are working on to achieve our mission:

Community ResilienceProviding community food hubs to create food equality. This means putting an end to food poverty and providing great food that nourishes the body, delivered through the Freezers of Love.

Food Resilience -
Shortening the distance between farm and plate and making great local food more accessible to everyone. We're also teaching the skills to grow and cook great food with confidence.

Community Food HallWhere all our work comes together. A space for people to congregate and combat loneliness at the same time. All set around a wonderful long table, with great food as the centrepiece.

Training and work opportunities - Through apprenticeships and The Teenage Kitchen, we're helping young people develop their skills and cook up a career they're excited about. We've seen apprentices go on to achieve great things.

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There are four areas we are working on to achieve our mission: Community Resilience Providing community food hubs to create food equality. This means putting an end to food poverty and providing great food that nourishes the body, delivered through the Freezers of Love.

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The mini pantry movement activates neighbour engagement of food insecurity.

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The mini pantry movement is a grassroots, crowdsourced solution
to immediate and local need. Whether a need for food or a need to give,
mini pantries help feed neighbors, nourishing neighborhoods.

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FareShare is the UK's national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 18 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to almost 11,000 frontline charities and community groups.

The food we redistribute is nutritious and good to eat. It reaches charities across the UK, including school breakfast clubs, older people's lunch clubs, homeless shelters, and community cafes. Every week we provide enough food to create almost a million meals for vulnerable people.

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FareShare | Fighting hunger, tackling food waste in the UK

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FareShare is the UK's national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 18 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to almost 11,000 frontline charities and community groups. The food we redistribute is nutritious and good to eat.

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We are a small grass roots community group that cover Swindon and Cheltenham. We have set up a network of collectors, who collect surplus foods and d...

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We throw away 7 million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year, much of which could have been eaten. It's costing us £12.5bn a year and is bad for the environment too. Here are our top tips for reducing food waste.

1. Check your fridge temperature

It should be between 0-5C.Food, especially milk, will go off much quicker if it's warmer.

2. Use your fridge wisely

Some foods keep better outside the fridge. This includes bread (keep it in a cool dark place like a bread bin or cupboard), bananas, pineapples, potatoes and onions.

3. Love your list

Make a shopping list (the easiest way is to keep it in the kitchen and add to it as you think of things) and stick to it when you go shopping. Plan ahead and shop with specific meals in mind.

4. Water your veg

Keep the stems of vegetables such as broccoli, celery and asparagus in water to help them stay fresh and crisp.

5. Freeze your 5-a-day...

Got fresh fruit and veg that you can't use in time? Why not freeze them? Some fruit and veg will lose their texture when frozen - you can deal with this by freezing them pureed or stewed. This applies to tomatoes (use the puree for pasta dishes or pizza), strawberries (use the puree in smoothies or as a sauce for other fresh fruit) and apples (use stewed apple on your porridge or muesli, or as the base for a fruit crumble).

6. ...and freeze leftovers

Many leftovers and chilled convenience meals freeze well too. If you've made something like pasta or rice with a sauce, freezing the sauce separately will work better.

7. Measure your portions

Reduce waste by cooking only the amount you need. Measuring takes away the guesswork and makes it more likely you'll get the right amount.
Get a handy guide to measuring portions from Love Food Hate Waste
8. Sauces and dips

Lots of leftovers can be made into sauces or dips. If you've got leftover beans or pulses (either that you've cooked yourself or from a tin), mash or blend with some garlic, lemon juice and herbs for a hummus-style dip (don't try this with baked beans, unless you rinse them thoroughly first). Slightly over-ripe avocados are great for guacamole, and tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers which need using can go into home-made salsa.

9. Freeze dairy products

Semi-skimmed and skimmed milk freeze better than whole. If it separates once defrosted, just give it a good shake. Hard cheese also freezes well - cut it into smaller portions, or grate some ready to use later.

10. Revive past-it bread

Bread rolls past their best? Put them in the oven for a few minutes to crisp up again. You can also make stale bread into breadcrumbs - either mix them with herbs and onions as a stuffing for chicken or to top baked fish, or freeze the breadcrumbs for later use. Loaves of bread freeze well too. If you're freezing a loaf or rolls from an in-store bakery, transfer into a freezer bag for better results rather than just freezing it in the packaging it comes in.
Find out more from Love Food Hate Waste Read our article about charities which are recycling surplus food for a good cause

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We throw away 7 million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year, much of which could have been eaten. It's costing us £12.5bn a year and is bad for the environment too. Here are our top tips for reducing food waste.

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Facebook group - Cirencester garden exchange

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PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING :) If you're a gardener on a windowsill, on a terrace, a back garden or a brace of allotments, there's always someone out there who'd love your glut of plums, or some extra...

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Our vegan guide

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Love food hate waste is a really useful website

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Explore our food guide for plenty of easy ways to reduce your food waste. From tasty recipes for simple meal ideas, easy ways to use up leftovers and how to store your food at home (hint: you'd be surprised how many foods can be frozen!) we've got you covered.

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Welcome to Love Food Hate Waste. We're here to prevent food waste, help you save food, save money and save the planet too. Here you'll find recipes, nutritional information, blogs on tips and tricks and more.

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Any other websites or resources we can use??

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Going for Gold: tackling food waste in Bristol gets our support |

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16 May 2019 At a time when non-biodegradable waste such as plastic is making headlines on a daily basis, the immense volume of food waste is often overlooked. Yet it's a problem of staggering proportions. One third of the world's food supply is lost or wasted according to the United Nations.

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How can we join up with the Foodbank? Helping people make more of their food boxes?

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Cirencester Foodbank | Helping Local People in Crisis

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Let's not waste our wonderful world. Connect with your neighbours to give away food & other household items, plus lend & borrow, for free.

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List of all local groups

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Ciren Sharers has 153 members. A place for people from Cirencester and surrounding villages to GIVE and to TAKE (please take anything you would like the food is surplus to supermarkets and will be...